On a book review in ‘Commonweal’
The American journal Commonweal has recently published a book review of Thomas Crean’s and Alan Fimister’s Integralism: a manual of political philosophy. The book review misrepresents the book in certain ways and criticises it in others. The present article will explain some of the misrepresentations and analyse the criticisms. The most serious misrepresentation lies in […]
NO ABIDING CITY – THE CHALLENGE OF ST AUGUSTINE
Dr Alan Fimister The following paper was given on 17 May 2019 at the Rome Life Forum On the City of God Against the Pagans was written in response to the sack of Rome by the Visigoths in 410. It is hard to grasp the scale of the catastrophe represented by this event. A century earlier […]
Integralism and the Infallibility of Quanta cura:
A Reply to Lawrence King and Robert T. Miller By John P. Joy In a recent article at Public Discourse, Lawrence King and Robert T. Miller offered a cordial critique of some arguments I had made here at the Dialogos Institute, in which I defended the infallibility of the condemnations of modern errors contained […]
The Theological Note of Integralism
The Teaching of Quanta cura is Definitive: A Reply to Robert T. Miller By Dr. John P. Joy In his recent article on “Integralism and Catholic Doctrine” (here at Public Discourse), Robert T. Miller argues against the integralist ideal of a Catholic confessional state, understood as one in which the state would “officially endorse […]