The Church and the Resurgence of Nationalism, Part I, by Darrick Taylor

Nationalism is all the rage these days, at least on the political Right. For many on the Right, this has become their default position, opposed to the globalism of the Left. Fault lines persist, however. Some see nationalism as primarily based upon ethnicity and shared culture; others promote a “civic” nationalism which downplays these and promotes equality of individual citizens. Globally, nationalism has also become the major rival, philosophically speaking, to the internationalism of Western liberals, from Poland, Hungary, Russia, and Ukraine to India and China.

What I would like to do in this series of articles is discuss the resurgence of nationalism in the world in relation to the Catholic Church by looking at the historical genesis of modern nationalism, how the Church reacted to it and taught about it, and what the Church’s stance toward this resurgence should be. For the sake of convenience, I divide it into four parts. In the first installment, I am going to look at the emergence of modern nationalism and its history up to the present. …

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