num_pages: 256
description: The symptoms of Americas decline are all around us: abortion on demand the shrinking of liberty and the growth of the state a pagan popular culture the destruction of families and free markets and the reduction of science to petty pop-technology. Few if any have sought to explain the origin of all of these problems at once. In Catholic Republic Timothy Gordon argues that Americas premature withering could have been avoided if only the founders had fully incorporated into the new republic the Catholic natural law. The anti-Catholic bias of 18th Century America kept our Protestant and Enlightenment forefathers from admitting their dependence upon the ideas of Aristotle St. Thomas Aquinas and the early Jesuits. In Catholic Republic Gordon unpacks our nations complicated history of repudiating yet borrowing the Catholic ideas about politics and nature which turn out to be indispensable to ourand allrepublics.Indeed America still can be saved. It is not too late.
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title: Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish Without Rome
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