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Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results, by James Hitchcock – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results, by James Hitchcock

David Bozell on The Dana Show: ‘Charlie Kirk Was the Rush Limbaugh of Our Time’, by Kurt Etheridge

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By James Hitchcock, Catholic World Report, Sept. 11, 2025

James Hitchcock, Ph.D (1938-2025), was a longtime professor of history at St. Louis University, which he attended as an undergraduate. He received his masters and doctorate degrees from Princeton University and has authored several books, including The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life; The Recovery of the Sacred; What Is Secular Humanism; Catholicism and Modernity: Confrontation or Capitulation? ; and History of the Catholic Church: From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium.

This first essay in the new feature category “From the Archives” was written in 1985 and describes the situation in the United States two decades after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council.

Editor’s note: This article is the first in a new feature category titled “From the Archives,” which will, as the name indicates, be pieces from CWR’s extensive archives. It seems fitting that this first essay, which appeared forty years ago in the May 1995 issue of CWR, is by the late Dr. James Hitchcock, who died earlier this year. Dr. Hitchcock was a regular contributor to CWR over the years, and his many articles and books offered an exceptional analysis of Catholicism in the United States, especially in its liberal and radical forms….

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Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results, by James Hitchcock

David Bozell on The Dana Show: ‘Charlie Kirk Was the Rush Limbaugh of Our Time’, by Kurt Etheridge

Charlie Kirk Believed ‘Every Human Being… Is Sacred’, by Nancy Flanders

By James Hitchcock, Catholic World Report, Sept. 11, 2025

This first essay in the new feature category “From the Archives” was written in 1985 and describes the situation in the United States two decades after the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council.

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