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A Tour of the Horizon, by Robert Royal – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

A Tour of the Horizon, by Robert Royal

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By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing, March 31, 2025

Robert Royal is editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C. His most recent books are Columbus and the Crisis of the West and A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition in the Twentieth Century.

Looking at the way that the human race manages its affairs is enough – if such were possible – to make angels weep. Or laugh. For most of its existence, the Church at least offered something of a counterexample, starting with surviving for 2,000 years, which isn’t likely to be the case for any current nation, international body, NGO, LGBT regime, or Silicon Valley empire. Longevity may not be proof of much, but it is proof of life, despite radical historical changes.

What kind of life does the Church now enjoy? A question worth probing, because both the Church and the world are now in no little peril.

The terminally tiresome debates over Vatican II now tend to obscure a crucial development. We’re often reminded that the Council “opened up” the Church – for good or for ill – to “the world.” But is that world the same as today’s?…

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