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Catholics & the Liberal Tradition

Still compatible

William M. Shea | Michael Lacey

Over the last several years, many Catholics have lamented their state of political homelessness. They want to know where they belong in today’s debates over public policy and political philosophy. Those are the debates that, in John Courtney Murray’s phrase, shape "the growing end of history," by giving a renewed sense of overall direction and purpose to the worki (...)


 

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about the writer

William M. Shea is professor of theology at Saint Louis University.

about the writer

Michael Lacey is a historian and director emeritus of the American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

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