The oh-so liberal and “sophisticated” modern Catholic, never mind the woke secular atheist out there, will scoff at the philosophy of Catholic Integralism, dismissing it as a political eccentricity or a nostalgic longing for a vanished medieval past.>The truth is, or at least should be for the Traditional Catholic, that it is a coherent doctrine grounded in the Church’s perennial teaching on man, society, and the final end of human life.>I would echo Theo Howard of The Two Cities podcast by saying that the only problem with Catholic Integralism is the label itself. This nomenclature implies it is a philosophy or a school of thought amongst many, whereas it is the Catholic way of ordering politics, society, culture and the individual, and therefor not optional.

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