Editor’s note: This interview was originally posted on July 19, 2017.
Pope Francis’s political, social, and economic thinking has created great consternation, but he has also roused tremendous interest of Catholics and those outside the Catholic Church in his pontificate. Daniel Mahoney has written widely about Pope Francis and joins this edition of Liberty Law Talk to discuss what he thinks are the keys to understanding the current head of the Roman Catholic Church.
Catholic Social Teaching will have minimal value if it serves mainly to channel the nostalgic yearning many people feel for older, simpler-seeming times.
The Senator's embrace of Catholic teaching offers some promise, but needs more depth.
If the defeatists are correct, politics and law will soon cease to function as pillars of human flourishing.
