Commonweal Catholics were educated, liberal-minded and middle-class, and aspired to assimilate into elite culture while bringing their Roman Catholic faith, education and sensibility with them.

To them, Biden is evidence of the need to change Church doctrine. For red-leaning Catholics, “Biden embodies a more liberal version of the faith that poses a threat to the future of the church ...

That is, what if the problem is not that liberal democracy has gone off the rails, but that it has not. In a 2014 essay in TAC, Patrick Deneen talked about this problem in a specific Catholic context.

There are two significant areas in which both the evangelical and the catholic are in solid agreement against the ravages of the liberal. (I employ “catholic” in the sense in which I am a ...

The Roman Catholic issue was regarded as a legitimate one, while the issue of liberal welfare legislation was not paramount—“Both parties are conservative …” (Nov. 1, pp. 1315–1318).

but they really just thought Trump was as un-Catholic as a leader could be. The right-wing integralists thought that Trump ...