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All This and Heaven Too

“We are witnessing the flowering of tendencies that have long gestated within both the clergy and the laity,” writes Jack Hanson, “a long-neglected voice speaking to a world that, in a moment of profound instability, seems desperate to hear it.” In the August issue, Hanson’s essay “Radical Reformation” examines the Catholic Church’s historical, if paradoxical, progressivism since the nineteenth century, paving the path for the contemporary papacy to “be defined by its opposition to power itself.” In this week’s From The Archive newsletter, four writers address the Catholic Church’s relationship to political power: F. E. Cartus reports from the Second Vatican Council in 1965; Steve Salerno investigates the financial pressures on pulpit politics; Richard Rodriguez on combatting homophobia and misogyny in the Church; and Horace M. Kallen questions the paradox of a free society within a Catholic hierarchy.

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