The Death and Resurrection of Tradition — By: Crisis Magazine

In an earlier essay in this series, we remarked how dispassionate or despondent observers at the beginning of the 19th century might have considered that the Catholic Church was terminally ill and on its deathbed. The previous century had seen the rise of despotic and absolutist monarchs who had usurped the rights of the Church as a means of subjecting religion to the power of the state.

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