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A New History of Redemption, by Francis X. Maier – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

A New History of Redemption, by Francis X. Maier

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Gerald McDermott’s excellent 2024 book, A New History of Redemption. 

By Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing, March 12, 2025

Francis X. Maier is a senior fellow in Catholic studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of True Confessions: Voices of Faith from a Life in the Church.

Note: Be sure to tune in tomorrow night – Thursday, March 13th at 8 PM Eastern – to EWTN for a new episode of the Papal Posse on ‘The World Over.’ TCT Editor-in-Chief Robert Royal and contributor Fr. Gerald E. Murray will join host Raymond Arroyo to discuss Pope Francis’ ongoing health crisis and its implications, the status of the case against disgraced former Jesuit Marko Rupnik, Washington D.C. protests against Cardinal Robert McElory – as well as other issues in the global Church. Check your local listings for the channel in your area. Shows are usually available shortly after first airing on the EWTN YouTube channel.

The late great Henry Ford famously argued that “history is bunk.”  The past, so the reasoning goes, is a millstone around humanity’s neck, a depressing, Old World obstacle to progress.  And that’s clearly one of the conceits buried deep in the American psyche. We Americans are different.  We’re a “city upon a hill,” the kind mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount.  We’re an entirely “new order of the ages” – words, in their original Latin, that are stamped right on our nation’s Great Seal.

We haven’t had a war on our home soil in 160 years.  We’re the wealthiest, most successful republic turned de facto empire in, well, history.  We’re also the greatest toolmakers.  The result is predictable: Optimism is baked into our national assumptions.  It drives our faith in technology, a faith with astonishing achievements, a faith with now global adherents. …

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