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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 | Jul 13, 2020 | Featured, illiberalism, liberalism, News, Politics, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
I have just read a story sent out on July 3 by CWN regarding the suspension of Rev. Theodore Rothrock from public ministry by the Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana, where he was pastor at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel. The offense that brought about his suspension was an item he wrote in […]
by bcadmin | Jun 12, 2020 | Archbishop Charles Chaput, Art & Culture, Featured, illiberalism, integralism, John Courtney Murray, John F. Kennedy, News, Orestes Brownson, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
The apogee of collaborationist Catholicism, alongside its more radical co-religionists, was undoubtedly the day of my birth: November 8, 1960. It was the day John F. Kennedy was elected president. He had already paid the price of admission to the Oval Office with a speech before the Houston Ministerial Association the previous September 12, in […]
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