Leo’s Catholic critics tend to focus on just-war theory, while ignoring the support of the last several popes for international law and a world governing authority.
In losing the capacity for deep reading, we may be placing explosives in the structural foundation of our liberal political order. The postliterate society may also be a postliberal one.
The clashes between Leo and the Trump administration underscore how U.S. Catholics have come to behave as though they are religious authorities unto themselves.
