Historian and theologian Alan Fimister joins the editors to discuss whether Pope Leo XIII was right to ask French Catholics to recognize the Third Republic. And more generally: does political engagement in modern parliamentary politics engender liberalism in Catholics? What form of government is best anyway? Alan defends the Lancastrian theory of the English Constitution as a mixed-form republic as the best.
Bibliography
- Alan Fimister, Robert Schuman: Neo-Scholastic Humanism and the Reunification of Europe (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008).
- Alan Fimister, Interview: Catholic Origins of the European Union Zenit (2008).
- Petrus Hispanus, The Primary Political Question: A Response to Milco on Liberalism, The Josias (2016).
- Pope Leo XIII, Au milieu des sollicitudes (1892).
- Roberto de Mattei, The Ralliement of Leo XIII: A Pastoral Experience That Moved Away from Doctrine, Rorate Cæli (2015).
- Pius VI, Quare lacrymae (1793).
- Adrian Vermeule, Ralliement: Two Distinctions, The Josias (2018).
- Felix de St. Vincent, Four Catholic Political Postures: Lessons from Leo XIII and Ralliement, The Josias (2017).
- Edmund Waldstein, Ralliement! Ralliement! Ralliement!, Sancrucensis (2017)
- Edmund Waldstein, Catholic Action and Ralliement, The Josias (2016).
- Edmund Waldstein, The Politics of Nostalgia, Sancrucensis (2014).
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