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Catholicism, Modernity, and Ground-Up Politics

Catholicism, Modernity, and Ground-Up Politics

December 15, 2019 | by Francesca Aran Murphy

Pope Francis’s theology of the people gives us a new ecclesial lens and paradigm through which to understand earthly politics. And the clerical abuse scandal, like the Church’s loss of temporal power, may well do Catholics a service in the long run, freeing us up to a better, more “ground-up” conception of how societies and their economies work.

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