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Trust, Tribalism, and the Church, by James Kalb  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Trust, Tribalism, and the Church, by James Kalb 

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By James Kalb, Catholic World Report, October 7, 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).

 

If we try to maintain the Church’s relevance by enlisting her in secular causes rather than emphasizing her specific nature and mission, people will have no reason to pay attention to the Church.

Recent trends in America point toward either tribalism or social disintegration. There is no neat solution to the problem. Still, the Church will be in a position to help mitigate it—not directly, through social engagement of some sort, but simply by being emphatically herself so she can once again be an object of strong and socially functional loyalties that transcend tribal boundaries.

I’ve commented before on how electronics now dissolve everything into images, video clips, and sound bites that can be reassembled into anything. That situation enables people to tailor their online world—which now forms much of their understanding of the world in general—to their own predilections. …

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