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Bright Promise, Failed Community

Catholics and the American Public Order [Paperback]

by Joseph A. Varacalli

Author
Joseph A. Varacalli
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Published
July 2001

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In this title, Joseph Varacalli describes how and why Catholic America has essentially failed to shape the American Republic in any significant way. American society has never experienced a "Catholic moment" - the closest it came was during the immediate post-World War II era - nor is it now close to approximating one. Varacalli identifies as the cause of the current situation the "failed community" of Catholic America: an ineffective and dissent-ridden set of organizational arrangement that had not succeeded in adequately communicating the social doctrine of the Church to Catholic Americans or to the key idea-generating sectors of American life. With a revitalized, orthodox, sophisticated community to serve as the carrier of Catholic social doctrine, Varacalli sees trends of thought that would propose viable alternatives to philosophies and ideologies that currently dominate the American public sphere - ones that would thus have a formidable impact on American society.