The American Founding is a complex event for Catholics, but the politics the founders preached were unwittingly tied to classical Catholic political thought.
Not sure what that boils down to, but I am with Robert Reilly , Harry Jaffa, the view of the Hillsdale political professors and in general would say this is the view of
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding
Book by Justin Buckley Dyer and Kody W. Cooper
IF we can recover the Natural Theology, the civil religion of lIncoln AND morally reform we will have whatever Catholics desire.
Pacem in Terris seems opposed to your centralizing collectivizing focus. Over 100 million citizens were killed by their own government in the last century
THIS IS CATHOLIC
60. It is generally accepted today that the common good is best safeguarded when personal rights and duties are guaranteed. The chief concern of civil authorities must therefore be to ensure that these rights are recognized, respected, co-ordinated, defended and promoted, and that each individual is enabled to perform his duties more easily. For "to safeguard the inviolable rights of the human person, and to facilitate the performance of his duties, is the principal duty of every public authority."(45)
Not sure what that boils down to, but I am with Robert Reilly , Harry Jaffa, the view of the Hillsdale political professors and in general would say this is the view of
The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics: Political Theology, Natural Law, and the American Founding
Book by Justin Buckley Dyer and Kody W. Cooper
IF we can recover the Natural Theology, the civil religion of lIncoln AND morally reform we will have whatever Catholics desire.
Pacem in Terris seems opposed to your centralizing collectivizing focus. Over 100 million citizens were killed by their own government in the last century
THIS IS CATHOLIC
60. It is generally accepted today that the common good is best safeguarded when personal rights and duties are guaranteed. The chief concern of civil authorities must therefore be to ensure that these rights are recognized, respected, co-ordinated, defended and promoted, and that each individual is enabled to perform his duties more easily. For "to safeguard the inviolable rights of the human person, and to facilitate the performance of his duties, is the principal duty of every public authority."(45)