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Americanism & The Collapse of the Church in the U.S.

by John Rao

A Catholic critique of Americanism

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A Catholic critique of Americanism

John Rao examines “Americanism” as more than patriotic attachment, arguing that it represents a set of principles with consequences for the Catholic Church. The description frames his central concern as the elevation of pluralism and pragmatic practice into a kind of competing civic religion—one that, in his account, resists scrutiny and seeks to reshape society beyond the United States. The book’s focus is therefore the tension Rao draws between Catholic commitments and an ideology he believes can present itself as practical or universally beneficial while challenging the Church’s authority. Its argument is situated within Catholic social teaching and addresses the relationship between religion, national identity, and political ideas.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Catholic readers interested in critiques of American political and cultural ideas
  • Readers exploring debates about pluralism, national identity, and the Church
  • Those seeking a religious argument about the influence of Americanism

Themes

Americanism and CatholicismPluralismReligion and national identityCatholic social teaching

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Book overview

Americanism is a term that appears to express nothing more than a devotion to America. In reality, however, it teaches principles and a way of life that pose, and always have posed, a threat to the Church of Rome. Indeed, the threat that it poses to Catholicism may be the most dangerous experienced by her in the past few centuries of revolution.

 

Its harmful quality arises from its subtle and effective transformation of the United States into a new religion whose central dogma of "pluralism" cannot be investigated or questioned; a new religion whose creed is said to be purely "practical" and "pragmatic," but which actually aims at a messianic rebuilding of the entire globe; a new religion that brooks no opposition to its will.

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