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by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Adrian Vermeule, Featured, illiberalism, integralism, News, Politics, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
This past March, The Atlantic published an essay by Adrian Vermeule, a Catholic professor of constitutional law at Harvard University, introducing the idea of “common-good constitutionalism” to an audience that I’m sure had never read anything quite like it. At its most basic, Professor Vermeule’s argument unfolded something like this: Human flourishing, or the “good […]
by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2020 | Adrian Vermeule, Featured, illiberalism, integralism, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Catholic integralism holds that the state must confess the Catholic religion. Integralism follows the teaching of Pope Leo XIII (as in his encyclical Immortale Dei) and a host of other popes in denying the liberal doctrine of the separation of Church and state, and proposes instead that the state is truly subordinate to the Church, […]
by bcadmin | Apr 13, 2020 | Adrian Vermeule, Featured, integralism, News, Politics, St. Thomas Aquinas, U.S. Constitution, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
On March 31, The Atlantic published an important essay by Adrian Vermeule, a Catholic professor of constitutional law at Harvard University, entitled “Beyond Originalism,” igniting a firestorm of controversy within the internet world of legal and political theory. That a secular magazine like The Atlantic would publish an article of such unflinchingly Catholic convictions is […]
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