So I gave this a once-over and I didn't see anything controversial - it's actually an interesting read.
It's not clear to me, but it seems that "Summa Kentuckiana" was written by Friar Stephan as a "book review" of sorts based on the writings of Wendell Berry, a writer from Henry County, Kentucky. There's a lot of Saint Paul and Thomas Aquinas for anyone that's into that sort of thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Berry
I liked Berry's excerpts in the book review... I'm going to buy one of his books...
The "most questionnable" thing I can point to in this book review is this passage:
[Berry writes some things about his fictional town dying, young people leaving, etc.]
Friar Stephan writes "This neatly summarizes the sense of rootlessness that now pervades American culture, and that makes fostering a love for the common good increasingly difficult. Nearly all the ties that bind us to people and places in ways that require commitment and self-sacrifice have been weakened over the past half-century: families, neighbors, a shared culture, a sense of the past, a common faith. Even reality itself is increasingly seen as a subject to redefinition based on one’s desires and preferences, no matter how disordered. As a result, we are more profoundly restless, and rootless, than ever before."
"Nearly all the ties that bind us to people and places in ways that require commitment and self-sacrifice have been weakened over the past half-century: families, neighbors, a shared culture, a sense of the past, a common faith."
You might disagree with that (I do) but you can't disagree with:
Even reality itself is increasingly seen as a subject to redefinition based on one’s desires and preferences, no matter how disordered.
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