Catholic Integralism is increasingly modish among a subset of Catholic intellectuals who think “liberalism,” embodied in America’s historic concept of liberty, not only has failed but was always doomed. It envisions a society in which once again “the church” is paramount, as in romanticized past ages.
Several decades ago there was a small subset of ultra Calvinist Evangelicals who advocated Reconstructionism, which somewhat similarly envisioned a society operating under biblical law. Its chief theorists and most followers are now gone.
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