Can American Democracy Be Compatible With Catholicism?

But what is a Catholic to make of America if the moral and political theories that animate these allegedly self-evident truths are in tension with, if not contradicted by, Catholic theology? A tentative attempt to answer this question was posited in 1960 by the American Jesuit priest and political theorist John Courtney Murray in his book, “We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition.”