Catholic Republic: Why America Will Perish With out Rome

Some Christians decry the deism of our Founding Fathers, claiming that outright anti-Christian rules lie on the coronary heart of our Declaration of Independence and Structure, crippling from beginning our beloved republic.

Right here thinker Timothy Gordon forcefully disagrees, arguing that whereas anti-Catholic bias saved them from admitting their reliance on Aristotle, Aquinas, and the early Jesuits, our Protestant and Enlightenment Founding Fathers
secretly held Catholic views about politics and nature.

Had they totally adhered to Catholic rules, argues Gordon, the “Catholic republic” that’s America from its beginning wouldn’t in the present day be on the verge of social collapse. The instinctive Catholicism of our Founders would have prevented the cancerous development of the state, our subsequent lack of liberties, the destruction of households, abortion on demand, the dying of free markets, and the horrors of in the present day’s pervasive pagan tradition.

In Catholic Republic, Gordon recounts our nation’s clandestine historical past of publicly repudiating, but privately counting on, Catholic concepts about politics and nature. At this late hour within the lifetime of the Church and the world, America nonetheless might be saved, claims Gordon, if solely we quickly return to the Catholic rules which might be the indispensable basis of all profitable republics.