The Pope's "Christian Humanism"

Here's a story about a recent address by the Pope, recalling the "Christian humanism" exemplified in the lives of the saints.  The story caught my eye, because we have so often -- here at MOJ -- emphasized the centrality of "anthropological" questions to the legal enterprise.

Recalling some saints whose memory is celebrated in the weeks to come, Benedict XVI affirmed that they are witness to a "Christian humanism" that differs deeply from an "atheistic humanism".

The Saints - the pope cited in particular the martyrs Maximilian Kolbe and Edith Stein - are indeed witnesses of “an antithesis which spans history, but at the end of the second millennium, with the contemporary nihilism, we have come to a crucial point, as major writers and thinkers have perceived, and as events have amply demonstrated." . . .