by Thomas Reese, S.J., NCR Ross Douthat is a thoughtful and articulate conservative who converted to Catholicism in his teens and now writes for The New York Times. He infuriates many of my progressive friends, but I usually find his writings interesting and thought provoking even if I often disagree with him. This month, First Things … Continue reading REFLECTION: The Catholic story, conservative vs. progressive
POLITICS: The political crisis of “Conservative Catholicism”
by Stephen Schneck, U.S. Catholic Loosely orbiting the journal First Things, since the late 1980s a handful of Catholic intellectuals have systematically promoted what they believed to be an inherent compatibility—if indeed not actual fusion—between American-style neoconservatism and Catholicism. Sometimes called theocons, the first generation of the movement included Father Richard Neuhaus, George Weigel, and … Continue reading POLITICS: The political crisis of “Conservative Catholicism”