To the contrary. Murray knew that the United States was an idea or “proposition” nation: a polity built, not on the old foundations of blood and soil, but on the foundations of a common commitment to certain truths—truths that he, a good natural law man, believed were inscribed into the world and into us; truths that we could know by the exercise of reason; truths that, known, disclosed our duties as individuals and as citizens. But Murray also knew that a nation “so conceived and so dedicated” would not long endure, if the moral and intellectual foundations that make self-governance for the common good possible were to collapse; if the “truths” on which the American democratic experiment relied for its tensile strength were no longer held.
Father John Courtney Murray, S.J. was one of the first to sound the alarm bells regarding the decoupling of democracy and moral truth, for he believed that reducing democracy to simply a set of functions would be damaging to its very foundation. https://t.co/HeFPDyVtoh
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Does he reign over the heterodox associated with the USCCB?
The Solemnity of Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI on December 11, 1925 with the encyclical Quas primas. When our nation is beset by civic unrest, racial tension, and a pandemic, we do well to turn to Our Lord, who reigns over every people and nation. pic.twitter.com/WqEB6HdyHS
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