![]() His talk, titled the "Breakdown of the Tocquevillian Consensus," examined just this subject: the compatibility of liberal democracy as practiced in the United States and the Church's historical condemnations of capitalism and democracy.īarron opened his speech remarking on the longstanding tensions between Catholicism and American democracy. On Tuesday, Barron delivered the Heritage Foundation's annual Russell Kirk Lecture. He argues belief in God and in liberal democracy are " mutually implicative." While he acknowledges that elements of the Founding were flawed, he believes some of the tensions between the Church and America were rooted in mutual misunderstanding. He is also a qualified defender of the United States. ![]() Barron chalks up the postconciliar malaise-declining Mass attendance, cratering seminaries and religious orders, the clerical abuse scandal, liturgical malpractice, poor catechesis, and widespread heterodoxy-not to the Council's reforms, but to individual prelates abusing the conciliar documents. ![]() He defends the Second Vatican Council and sees the pontificates of John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis as carrying forward the Council's salutary agenda of reform. ![]() ![]() He holds fast to the Church's unpopular teachings and resists most popular heresies. While the label is imprecise in the ecclesial context, Bishop Barron is best understood as a neoconservative. ![]()
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