Must read file: Reflections on an Insightful Column describing how the West has become and Anti-Culture � Archdiocese of WashingtonPOPE: As we have discussed on this blog before, the Western World seems to have embarked on a (failed) experiment, testing whether a culture can exist without a shared cultus. That, is to say whether a true and unifying vision that we call culture can really exist at all without something above and beyond it,� which unifies it and to which it must answer.
Unfortunately the word “cult”� has strongly negative connotations in English, referring to extremist forms of religious association. But the Latin word cultus refers to devotion and/or religious adoration to God or to a body of religious beliefs and vision. As such, it serves as the basis for culture and makes up the very heart of that word.
