RT Article
T1 US Democracy: The Civil Sphere, Public Catholicism, and Alternative Futures
JF Concilium
IS 1
SP 33
OP 41
A1 Wood, Richard L.
LA English
YR 2026
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1966992149
AB Recent decades have witnessed the erosion of the cultural foundations of democracy in the United States, which helped enable the capture of key democratic institutions by anti-civil and anti-democratic forces. This article will briefly diagnose the cultural and institutional erosion that undergirded this crisis of US democracy; sketch the theological commitments through which public Catholicism has opposed and been implicated in democratic erosion; outline four plausible future scenarios that may emerge; and argue that Catholicism will play a key role in determining which of those scenarios actually occurs.
K1 Catholic Church
K1 Democracy
K1 United States