Chuck Colson Recommend this article   Since 1981, Ratzinger has
been the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Apart from the late John Paul II, he has more than anyone else
shaped the Catholic Church?s response to the secular worldviews
infecting the West.  In his homily prior to the start of the
conclave that elected him pope, Ratzinger warned, ?We are moving
toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize
anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one?s
own ego and one?s own desires.? Christians are to illustrate the
alternative.  The new pope?s refusal to bow before the idols of
our age is enough to set some people?s teeth on edge. But he
does not stop there: In his new book, Ratzinger calls on
Europe to return to its Christian roots. He calls Europe?s
?passionately demanded multiculturalism? a ?renunciation? of and
?fleeing? from ?what is one?s own.?  By ?one?s own? he means
Christianity, and he writes that only a re-embrace of its
Christian roots can assure