What direction should Catholicism take in America today? It’s a new setting, historically speaking, and despite all efforts, we don’t seem to be dealing with it well.
We live in a democratic consumer society that emphasizes widespread security and prosperity, and certain kinds of individual choice. It’s mostly been able to deliver those things, but that success appears increasingly precarious.
We seem prosperous, but prices outrun incomes, young people can’t find jobs or establish families, and the American federal deficit last year was 7.5% of national economic output.
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