Well, E.J. Dionne doesn't actually come right out and say it; but he seems to be leaning in that direction:

I am inclined, with Radcliffe, to believe we should celebrate rather than mourn our intellectual tensions between Communion and Kingdom, between liberty on the one side and community and equality on the other. But living with those tensions requires far more trust than we now seem capable of managing. What I do know is that throwing one side out of the house is not a solution to homelessness.

Judge for yourself here.

Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is a longtime Commonweal contributor.

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