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2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention Pope Francis
2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in English translation edition
One element of the church that Pope Francis was elected to lead in 2013 was an ideology that might be called the "American" model of Catholicism—the troubling result of efforts by intellectuals like Michael Novak, George Weigel, and Richard John Neuhaus to remake Catholicism into both a culture war colossus and a prop for ascendant capitalism.
After laying the groundwork during the 1980s and armed with a selective and manipulative reading of Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical Centesimus Annus, these neoconservative commentators established themselves as authoritative Catholic voices throughout the 1990s, viewing every question through a liberal-conservative ecclesial-political lens. The movement morphed further after the 9/11 terror attacks into a startling amalgamation of theocratic convictions, which led to the troubling theo-populism we see today.
The election of the Latin American pope represented a mortal threat to all of this, and a poisonous backlash was inevitable, bringing us to the brink of a true "American schism." This is the drama of today's Catholic Church. In Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis, Massimo Borghesi—who masterfully unveiled the pope's own intellectual development in his The Mind of Pope Francis—analyzes the origins of today's Catholic neoconservative movement and its clash with the church that Francis understands as a "field hospital" for a fragmented world.
Contents
Contents
Introduction: Beyond the Theological-Political Model: Pope Francis's "Mobile" Church 1
1. The Fall of Communism and the Hegemony of Catholic Americanism 37
The Church after the Fall of Communism 37
From Antimodernism to Liberal-Conservative Modernism: Michael Novak's Catho-capitalism 45
The Catholic Neoconservative Movement and Centesimus Annus as "Decisive Break" 58
David Schindler's Theological Critique of the Neoconservative Movement 74
America First: The Neoconservatives versus John Paul II and Benedict XVI 90
Neoconservatives and the Church in Italy 105
2. The Pontificate of Francis and the Crisis of Globalization 131
Ethics and Capitalism in Evangelii Gaudium: The Neoconservative and Neotraditionalist Reaction 131
A Soulless Technocracy: The Ecological Question in Laudato Si' 156
Polarity versus Polarization: Fratelli Tutti: A New Pacem in Terris 175
The "Great Americans": A Renewed Dialogue between the Church and the United States 194
3. A Church That Goes Forth and a Field Hospital: The Missionary Face of the Church 213
Away from the Center and Toward the Peripheries of the World and of Life 213
Evangelization and Human Development: The "Great" Paul VI's Evangelii Nuntiandi and the End of Christianity 225
The Way of Mercy: The Theology of Tenderness and the Dialectic of the Great and the Small 236
Conclusion: Theo-populism, the United States, and the Future of the Church 253
Index of Names 265
