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Is the Family Still Fundamental? by James Kalb – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Is the Family Still Fundamental? by James Kalb

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By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, April 3, 2025   

James Kalb is a lawyer, independent scholar, and Catholic convert who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of The Tyranny of Liberalism (ISI Books, 2008), Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It (Angelico Press, 2013), and, most recently, The Decomposition of Man: Identity, Technocracy, and the Church (Angelico Press, 2023).

 

Liberalism, progressivism, and libertarianism are played out. Whatever problems they were originally intended to fix, they have become the problem.

Last month, I suggested that subsidiarity comes from the idea that social order begins with the family, and proceeds from there to ever broader communities and ultimately to the whole world.

This view makes the family the fundamental social institution. That means it isn’t just a private contract or a matter of legal or social prescription. It’s something more deeply rooted in human nature: a durable union of man and woman that is complementary and oriented toward bringing new life into the world. …

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