By Korey Maas
In recent years, serious Christians of all stripes have begun to negotiate anew the difficult questions of the Church’s place in (or out of) the prevailing liberal order. Joseph Trabbic is therefore to be commended for his forthright reflections over at Public Discourse on “The Catholic Church, the State, and Liberalism.” As he quite rightly notes, there is a “growing movement to reevaluate the compatibility of Catholicism and liberal politics.” Whatever one thinks of this movement, it should not be entirely surprising since Trabbic also persuasively and, in his own words, “not very controversially” establishes that, “according to previous papal teaching, a Catholic confessional state is the ideal.”
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