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Unquiet Americans - U.S. Catholics, Moral Truth, and the Preservation of Civil Liberties (Paperback)
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Unquiet Americans - U.S. Catholics, Moral Truth, and the Preservation of Civil Liberties (Paperback)
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Before the Second Vatican Council, America's Catholics operated
largely as a coherent voting bloc, usually in connection with the
Democratic Party. Their episcopal leaders generally spoke for
Catholics in political matters; at least, where America's bishops
asserted themselves in public affairs there was little audible
dissent from the faithful. More than occasionally, the immigrant
Church's eagerness to demonstrate its patriotic bona fides
furthered its tendency to speak with one voice about national
matters, and in line with the broader societal consensus. And,
notwithstanding the considerable conflict which Catholics
encountered, and generated, in American political life, there was
before the Council broad agreement in American culture about the
centrality of Biblical morality to the success of Americans'
experiment with republican government. In other words: before the
Council, American Catholics' relationship to the political common
good was mediated, somewhat uncritical, and insulated from conflict
(both within and without the Church) over such fundamental matters
as protection of innocent life, marriage and family life, and (to a
lesser extent) religious liberty. This has all changed since the
mid-1960s. For the first time in the Church's pilgrimage on these
shores, controversial questions about the basic moral requirements
of the political common good are front and center for America's
Catholics. These questions require Catholics to confront matters
which heretofore they either took for granted, read off from the
background culture, or which they left to the bishops to handle.
But the Council Fathers rightly recognized that Jesus calls upon a
formed and informed laity to act as leaven in the public realm, to
bring Gospel values to the temporal sphere. In this book of essays
touching upon Catholic social doctrine, the truth about human
equality and political liberty, and religious faith as it bears
upon public life and the public engagement of lay Catholics, Gerard
Bradley supplies indispensable aid to those seeking to answer
Jesus' call.
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