Abstract
The Christian Churches must wrestle with the difficult question of how to oppose the dominant relativism of contemporary culture and at the same time honour cultural and religious pluralism. In his homily of April 18, 2005 during the solemn Mass prior to his election to the papacy, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger expressed his fear that society was steadily moving toward "a dictatorship of relativism." The true and the good are increasingly defined in utilitarian terms: ideas are true and values valid if they serve people's material interests. In present-day society people no longer believe in abiding truths of universal relevance. For this reason, said the Cardinal, they look upon the articulation of Christian teaching as a form of fundamentalism. Against this present trend the Church must defend the single great truth: God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ.
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