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by bcadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, government, integralism, liberalism, News, secularism, totalitarianism | 0 |
A couple of months ago, I wrote an anodyne column about integralism, the view that political should be subordinate to spiritual authority. It said that today the subordination would be reversed in practice. Its real […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, integralism, News, Politics, temporal power | 0 |
People have been talking about integralism recently. What is it, and what should we know about it? In a short discussion I can only give my own interpretation, but will start with a definition by […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | distributism, Economics, family, Featured, integralism, News | 0 |
This is the final installment of this series. Parts I and II were previously published on Catholic Exchange. Point 4: Private property is an inviolable right yet one that must work in tandem with the larger and general good of the community, in conjunction with points 5 (subsidiarity) and point 6 (solidarity). Private property is […]
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 | Antifa, Art & Culture, Black Lives Matter, Education, Featured, integralism, libertarianism, News, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
We are living in a strange time, to be sure—a strange amalgam of the last short years of the antebellum South and Weimar Germany. If we were selling it to a studio as a film idea, we would have to say it’s the first half-hour or so of Gone with the Wind meets Cabaret. Amid […]
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 […]
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 […]
by bcadmin | Feb 3, 2020 | Capitalism, Centessimus Annus, distributism, Donald J. Trump, Dorothy Sayers, economy, Featured, integralism, News, Politics, Pope John Paul II, Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, socialism, Weekly Headlines | 0 |
Andrew Yang is a man ahead of his time. Mark my words: within our lifetime, his ominous-sounding “Freedom Dividend—basically a universal basic income, or UBI—will become a plank of at least one of our two major political parties. And how could it be otherwise? Mr. Yang argues (correctly) that the developed world is going through […]
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