https://thejosias.net/2016/02/13/catholic-action-and-ralliement/ Non declinavit ad dextram sive ad sinistram. Tue, 20 Mar 2018 19:57:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4 https://thejosias.net/2016/02/13/catholic-action-and-ralliement/#comment-389 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:26:24 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=1361#comment-389 […] Pater Edmund Waldstein has argued, following Petrus Hispanus, that ralliement was doomed to fail because it was an imprudent strategy. You can read Pater Waldstein’s argument at The Josias, but it ultimately boils down to this: cooperation with liberalism is a nonstarter because liberalism reduces everything to proceduralism. The idea behind ralliement was that Catholics, setting aside once and for all the dream of restoring the monarchy, could use the procedural machinery of the Third Republic to obtain a more favorable settlement for the Church instead of fighting the Republic itself. Indeed, according to Étienne Lamy, quoted at length by Pater Waldstein, Catholics could obtain a more favorable settlement for the Church using the very ideals of the Republic: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality. However, it did not work that way, and, De Mattei argues, it was only Pius X’s uncompromising insistence on Catholic truth that prevented the French state from enforcing its tyrannical laws. […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2016/02/13/catholic-action-and-ralliement/#comment-390 Sun, 30 Jul 2017 21:26:24 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=1361#comment-390 […] Pater Edmund Waldstein has argued, following Petrus Hispanus, that ralliement was doomed to fail because it was an imprudent strategy. You can read Pater Waldstein’s argument at The Josias, but it ultimately boils down to this: cooperation with liberalism is a nonstarter because liberalism reduces everything to proceduralism. The idea behind ralliement was that Catholics, setting aside once and for all the dream of restoring the monarchy, could use the procedural machinery of the Third Republic to obtain a more favorable settlement for the Church instead of fighting the Republic itself. Indeed, according to Étienne Lamy, quoted at length by Pater Waldstein, Catholics could obtain a more favorable settlement for the Church using the very ideals of the Republic: Liberty, Fraternity, Equality. However, it did not work that way, and, De Mattei argues, it was only Pius X’s uncompromising insistence on Catholic truth that prevented the French state from enforcing its tyrannical laws. […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2016/02/13/catholic-action-and-ralliement/#comment-387 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:58:44 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=1361#comment-387 […] Milieu des Sollicitudes, the encyclical inaugurating the ralliement in France. The ralliement was a clever but risky strategy for re-Catholicising post-revolutionnary nations. Pope Leo had wanted French Catholics to use republican political processes to change the republic […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2016/02/13/catholic-action-and-ralliement/#comment-388 Wed, 26 Jul 2017 14:58:44 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=1361#comment-388 […] Milieu des Sollicitudes, the encyclical inaugurating the ralliement in France. The ralliement was a clever but risky strategy for re-Catholicising post-revolutionnary nations. Pope Leo had wanted French Catholics to use republican political processes to change the republic […]

]]> https://thejosias.net/2016/02/13/catholic-action-and-ralliement/#comment-386 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:07:44 +0000 https://thejosias.net/?p=1361#comment-386 […] Catholic Action and Ralliement […]

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