Godsplaining Guestsplaining: Dr. Kenneth Craycraft on, "Can a Catholic be an American?"
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May 27, 2024 Dr. Kenneth Craycraft discusses his book exploring Catholicism in America. Highlights include integrating faith with politics, individual rights in history, Catholic citizenship, and moral commitments. Emphasizing dignity, subsidiarity, solidarity, and civic friendship.
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Catholic Moral Language Lost
- American Catholics often lose their distinct Catholic moral language by merging it with American liberal political ideas.
- This dilution results in moral life shaped more by party politics than by Catholic teaching.
Maintaining Catholic-American Tension
- The tension between Catholic common good and American individualism is like surface tension of water.
- Trying to resolve it favors liberalism and erodes authentic Catholic moral life.
Rethinking Autonomy and Rights
- American liberalism centers on individual autonomy and rights protecting personal liberty.
- Catholicism reframes this as moral agency rooted in human dignity, rejecting self-law as ultimate authority.