Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, scholar, writer and activist who died in 1968, continues to inspire and influence people around the world -- he was one of the four significant U.S. Americans cited by Pope Francis during his address to the U.S. Congress in 2015 (in addition to Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and … Continue reading Discovering the anti-racism of Thomas Merton
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”