By Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine - But what really got me about Hart’s piece, particularly given his affiliation with Notre Dame, was this passage: Democratic socialism is, briefly put, a noble tradition of civic conscientiousness that was historically—to a far greater degree than either its champions or detractors today often care to acknowledge—grounded in deep Christian convictions. I, for instance, am a proud son of the European Christian socialist tradition, especially in its rich British variant … but also in its continental expressions….