By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing - God made man in His own image and likeness. God Himself, then, is the primary reference point for man’s self-understanding. Accordingly, when man loses sight of God, he loses sight of his own humanity... This is the story of our secular age writ large. It is also, in some vaguely reassuring sense, the story of man writ large. I say “reassuring” in the sense that our failings are rarely quite so novel as we think they are, which means the remedies are less inaccessible than we might otherwise suppose.