OnlySkyIt is important to understand post-liberal thinking in order to expose, engage and defeat it.

Bruce Ledewitz
Bruce Ledewitz

On March 29, 2023, Dr. Chad Pecknold delivered the Pio Cardinal Laghi Chair Lecture at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio.

Secular eyes might roll at the excessive Latinate titles and obscure setting. But Pecknold, a postliberal theologian at Catholic University, represents a movement that merits attention from those who value our secular democracy.

The lecture’s title, “Making Disciples of All Nations,” speaks to Pecknold’s theme—using the power of the State to convert America to the true faith of Roman Catholicism by abolition of the separation of Church and State and other aspects of a liberalism he sees as “passing away.”

Specifically, he quotes a letter that Pope Leo XIII wrote in 1899 criticizing “Americanism” in response to efforts by American Catholics at that time to convince their fellow citizens that they were not anti-democratic or anti-liberal, that they believed in the individual liberty that the Constitution promised to all.

Pope Leo wrote that the greater danger to American Catholics was not the discrimination they faced from their fellow Americans, but the very “civil freedoms” and “rights” they were celebrating.

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The Theological Error Behind Post-Liberalism’s Bid For Political Power

OnlySkyIt is important to understand post-liberal thinking in order to expose, engage and defeat it.

Bruce Ledewitz
Bruce Ledewitz

On March 29, 2023, Dr. Chad Pecknold delivered the Pio Cardinal Laghi Chair Lecture at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio.

Secular eyes might roll at the excessive Latinate titles and obscure setting. But Pecknold, a postliberal theologian at Catholic University, represents a movement that merits attention from those who value our secular democracy.

The lecture’s title, “Making Disciples of All Nations,” speaks to Pecknold’s theme—using the power of the State to convert America to the true faith of Roman Catholicism by abolition of the separation of Church and State and other aspects of a liberalism he sees as “passing away.”

Specifically, he quotes a letter that Pope Leo XIII wrote in 1899 criticizing “Americanism” in response to efforts by American Catholics at that time to convince their fellow citizens that they were not anti-democratic or anti-liberal, that they believed in the individual liberty that the Constitution promised to all.

Pope Leo wrote that the greater danger to American Catholics was not the discrimination they faced from their fellow Americans, but the very “civil freedoms” and “rights” they were celebrating.

Continue reading @ OnlySky.

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