Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis

by Barry Hudock and Massimo Borghesi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081466735X
• ISBN13: 9780814667354
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"