In a recent visit to Turin, Pope Benedict XVI remarked: “Towards the end of the 19th century, Nietzsche wrote: ‘God is dead! And we have killed him.'”
Far from disagreeing with this view, Benedict adds: “This famous saying is clearly taken almost literally from the Christian tradition. We often repeat it in the Way of the Cross, perhaps without being fully aware of what we are saying.” Nietzsche is orthodox!
And how is it that we have “killed God?” Surely, it is through our sins and other “negative” things.
Thus, if we do not even want to talk about these things, as Tolkien and Lewis do, we will have no conception of what Catholicism is about. We will deny that things we do need attention.
Many schools, Catholic ones included, live in an environment in which the early practice of virtue is almost impossible. A friend of mine who homeschools her son recently told me that she was grateful to be almost through the “middle school” period, as that was the worst arena morally in most school systems.
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God is not dead and He never died! Christ died so when he was on the cross He said Father, Father why has thou forsaken me! It means God did not die!