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An American Moment? by Michael Pakaluk – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

An American Moment? by Michael Pakaluk

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In God We Trust plaque at the U.S. Capitol, 1961 [Companion plaques are at the Longworth House Office Building and at the Dirksen Senate Office Building.]

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, September 11, 2025 

Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is Professor of Political Economy in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. …

 

Catholics who travel between the United States and Europe say that there is a noticeable difference in the Catholic cultures of the two.  The reports are anecdotal, of course. But this is what I see and hear: that on the American side, practicing Catholics seem more youthful and more hopeful; their culture is more vigorous; it is more outspoken; it has a bolder public presence.  It is looking towards the next generations.  It is building for the future. In short, it is more apostolic and evangelical.

If this is true – some European friends have asked me – how would I, as an American, explain it?

I said that there are deep-running fibers in the American character that make Americans especially well-suited to living the faith in the contemporary world, in the true spirit of Vatican II.  (Yes, my friends and I remain very enthusiastic about what Vatican II truly taught.) …