The Love of Christ Impels Us

So I just found out about this but you still have a month and a half if you want to participate.  Hosted by the JPII Institute this is the first annual Fr. Michal J. McGivney Essay Contest in which junior and senior year college students are asked to write an essay on a particular aspect "on the themes of culture, person, God, love, marriage, and family, especially as developed in the theological work of John Paul II and Benedict XVI."  The topic for his year's contest seems to be on the relationship between freedom and truth:

Commenting in 1993 on problems in modern ethical thought, John Paul II spoke of a general tendency of "detaching human freedom from its essential and constitutive relationship to truth" (Veritatis Splendor, 4).  He also made the following claim: "The attempt to set freedom in opposition to truth, and indeed to separate them radically, is the consequence, manifestation and consummation of another more serious and destructive dichotomy, that which separates faith from morality" (Ibid., 88).  What does it mean to speak of an "essential and constitutive relationship" of freedom to truth?  If freedom needs truth, does truth need freedom?  How do both need faith?  Write an essay discussing these questions.

Ok, so get out your Veritatis Splendor, Fides et Ratio, Love and Responsibility, Caritas in Veritate, etc. and get to writing! The winner will receive $2000 and the runner-up will receive $750.  Find out more details here.