Month: December 2022

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "It should be clear, once it is put in these terms, that the question Manent poses is ultimately a theological one. In order to decide whether the exclusion of the Church from the political order per se, which is institutionalized in liberalism, reaches into the heart of Christianity, we cannot avoid asking: What is the nature of the Church in relation to the Gospel and […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "The question “What is liberalism?” is an essential question, and therefore an untimely one. In the present moment, the question of the “value” of liberalism—that is, modern political philosophy founded on “natural rights” and some version of the “social contract” theory—has emerged with an urgency it may never have had before. While preceding generations have simply taken liberalism for granted as the given context within […]

Hodierna Verba Veritatis et Sapientiae "What is the mission of Christian politics? To make all men brothers, all women sisters; to make fathers and mothers of all those with more power than others; to make children of all those with less; to make cousins of all allies and strangers; to take the seed of charity so obviously present between mother and daughter, husband and wife, and make of it the […]