Fw: Obama Ignites a ‘Catholic Moment’ in the Culture Wars

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A worthwhile read that appeared in the Feb 15 NYSun and before that in the National Review.

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Obama Ignites a ‘Catholic Moment’ in the Culture Wars

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | February 15, 2012

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/obama-ignites-a-catholic-moment-in-the-culture/87708/

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The last two weeks have produced an astounding convergence of profound philosophical public controversies in the United States that finally does justify the phrase, much bandied about for some years, “culture wars.” That expression was coined originally for Bismarck’s mad Kulturkampf against the Roman Catholic Church (and, to a lesser degree, other churches) in the mid–19th century. It was the usual self-aggrandizement of secular states against a vast, international, un-submissive, foreign-governed church, and recalled French and Spanish railings against the Jesuits, Napoleon’s detention of Pope Pius VII, and many other church–state frictions.

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