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“In the present free and democratic society, such a model seems better able to guarantee the moral foundations of coexistence and, in the last analysis, a common vision of the world, such that the promotion of democracy (specifically of liberty and social cohesion) appears to be a moral imperative in harmony with religious faith, as already affirmed by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Curious how Michael Novak calls de Tocqueville a Catholic Whig in his latest book...
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http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php?id_article=1249
Did anybody read the areticle from Commonweal that Joseph Komonchak wrote... I happend upon it when I was reading the above referred articles...
I don't have time to make note now--must attend to the wife!--but I read it today and wanted to know if anybody else went through it...
Possibly more later,
Justin
Cardinal Ruini sez:
“In the present free and democratic society, such a model seems better able to guarantee the moral foundations of coexistence and, in the last analysis, a common vision of the world, such that the promotion of democracy (specifically of liberty and social cohesion) appears to be a moral imperative in harmony with religious faith, as already affirmed by Alexis de Tocqueville.
Curious how Michael Novak calls de Tocqueville a Catholic Whig in his latest book...
Maybe you put this in the wront thread?
No, the excerpt is from the second link in this post.
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