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Don Sturzo's Liberal Catholicism

Borgese, G. A. | April 27, 1940 issue

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Catholicism in the stages of its origins and of its early maturity had been the result of a wide-embracing syncretism. Toward liberalism and science, might have taken an attitude as supple and penetrating as the one it had taken toward the pagan philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, toward the communes and the kingdoms. A liberal Catholicism was in the making during the whole of the nineteenth century, both before and after the Syllabus, although it never was made. A theological liberalism, or modernism, strove toward a symbolical and critical interpretation of the dogmas; a political liberalism aimed at a Catholic democracy.

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CATHOLIC Church; LIBERALISM; MODERNISM (Christian theology); CHRISTIANITY & other religions; POLITICAL doctrines; NEOPAGANS
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