(OSV News) The annual New York Encounter weekend is renowned for including the widest range of thinking possible.
From Feb. 17-19, the event, with its usual discussions of literature, art and theology connecting faith and culture, combined a warm appreciation of the late Pope Benedict XVI with an exhibit explaining 19th-century German philosopher and polemicist Friedrich Nietzsche, who is famously remembered for his statement God is dead in which he denounced Europe s Christians as having