How should contemporary Christians react to the decline of their churches, the secularization of the culture, the final loss of Christendom? Perhaps, one important author has suggested, they should reconcile themselves to the new dispensation, accepting that the “modern age is not a sacral, but a . . . . Continue Reading »
In November 1945, Jacques Maritain wrote a letter to his friend Étienne Gilson in which he complained about “the integralists in Quebec” who were accusing him of “neo-liberalism, neo-individualism,” and “neo-Pelagianism.” Maritain was particularly frustrated because he saw the . . . . Continue Reading »
Chad Pecknold joins the podcast to discuss his recent Postliberal Order articles, “The Religious Nature of the City” and “Imago Dei as a Political Concept.” Continue Reading »
Professor Vermeule and his fellow integralists might consider whether they’re reprising 19th-century French royalist mistakes. Continue Reading »
For the last fifty years, from the Second Vatican Council onward, it made sense to speak of an American Catholicism fully reconciled to liberal democracy. On the fringes there were still some noteworthy anti-liberal and radical Catholic periodicals and writers, but the mainstream was defined by the . . . . Continue Reading »
As society crumbles, can the Church restore a new kind of universal communion? Continue Reading »
Catholics across France have been meeting outside churches and civil buildings to demand the lifting of prohibitions on the public celebration of Mass. Continue Reading »
The loss of the Papal States was a great boon to the papacy and to the Church’s evangelical mission. Continue Reading »
The proponents of a new “Catholic integralism” have demonstrated an impressive ability to rile up the debate about the current American political situation. Continue Reading »
Religious Freedom Matthew Schmitz is right that we should focus less on the need for a universal tolerance and more on what sort of vision of the good life ought to be pursued among the tolerated (“Limits of Religious Freedom,” March). But my reason for believing this is near opposite to . . . . Continue Reading »
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