Sentences with phrase «catholic political tradition»

The Italian left, heirs to the strongest communist party in Western Europe and a powerful Catholic political tradition, is struggling to adjust its values and political agenda to the new needs and constrains of the modern globalised world.

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I have a great respect for the Roman Catholic tradition in political and social thought, and believe that some of the most interesting and «provocative» contemporary commentators depend very heavily on that tradition.

The Catholic Church had retrieved lost elements of its own tradition, and learned some new things along the way, in coming to terms with religious freedom and political modernity.

This picture of «tradition» versus «progress» fits our wider, modern political and cultural frameworks of «right» versus «left,» but it is grossly inadequate for understanding the history of modern Catholic theology.

Michael Novak identifies certain affinities between Catholic social teaching and the «original American» tradition of political thought, and he argues that Catholic intellectual resources should be put in the service of the classically American strand of liberalism.

Eire rejects a long and shrill tradition of hostile Catholic historiography that blamed Luther for unleashing not only religious but also moral and political chaos on the German nation, but Doctor Martin does not emerge well from this unblinking account of Luther the polemicist.

Recovering Self - Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law edited by Michael A. Scaperlanda and Teresa Stanton Collett Catholic University Press, 403 pages, $ 35.95 paper An extremely useful collection of informed examinations of how natural law theory can constructively engage American legal and political traditions.

David Campbell's research piece finds reason to praise the nation's largest private system of schools, the Catholic schools, for their ability to graduate students with a healthy regard for our political traditions and a commitment to social action, but he also finds signs that private schools with other religious affiliations may not have such excellent records.