The Pope and the Pillars

According to George Weigel (WSJ), the new pope--whoever he may turn out to be--faces a Herculean challenge:  

"He must help an increasingly deracinated world--in which there may be your truth and my truth, but nothing recognizable as the truth--rediscover the linkage between faith and reason, between Jerusalem and Athens, two of the pillars of Western civilization.  When those two pillars crumble, the third pillar--Rome, the Western commitment to the rule of law--crumbles as well.  And the result is what Benedict XVI aptly styled the dictatorship of relativism."