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EDITORIAL: Threats to free speech today across the West, particularly related to Christian truths revealed by faith and discovered by science, underscore the vulnerability of the Catholic Church today.
In his landmark 2021 book, From Christendom to Apostolic Mission, Msgr. James Shea, president of the University of Mary, persuasively argues that Western civilization no longer operates under the imaginative vision and narrative of Christianity. As a result, he argues we have arrived at a “new apostolic age” in which present culture is more like the pre-Christian era than 20th-century America.
Indeed, the hostility Catholics encounter each day is a testament to Msgr. Shea’s analysis.
In every age, but particularly one in which the Church wields little cultural influence, free speech is indispensable to the mission of spreading the Good News to every corner of the Earth — and to the survival of the Church. Indeed, a Church persecuted by governments and censored by corporate behemoths is endangered; just ask imprisoned Hong Kong businessman Jimmy Lai. Threats to free speech today across the West, particularly related to Christian truths revealed by faith and discovered by science, underscore the vulnerability of the Church today.
It is a precarious situation when the vice-presidential nominee of a major party declares openly that free-speech rights are malleable. That’s just what Gov. Tim Walz did last week when he appeared on MSNBC, saying of the Constitution, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”
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In his landmark 2021 book, From Christendom to Apostolic Mission, Msgr. James Shea, president of the University of Mary, persuasively argues that Western civilization no longer operates under the imaginative vision and narrative of Christianity. As a result, he argues we have arrived at a “new apostolic age” in which present culture is more like the pre-Christian era than 20th-century America.
Indeed, the hostility Catholics encounter each day is a testament to Msgr. Shea’s analysis.
In every age, but particularly one in which the Church wields little cultural influence, free speech is indispensable to the mission of spreading the Good News to every corner of the Earth — and to the survival of the Church. Indeed, a Church persecuted by governments and censored by corporate behemoths is endangered; just ask imprisoned Hong Kong businessman Jimmy Lai. Threats to free speech today across the West, particularly related to Christian truths revealed by faith and discovered by science, underscore the vulnerability of the Church today.
It is a precarious situation when the vice-presidential nominee of a major party declares openly that free-speech rights are malleable. That’s just what Gov. Tim Walz did last week when he appeared on MSNBC, saying of the Constitution, “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”
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Tim Walz’s Assault on Free Speech
EDITORIAL: Threats to free speech today across the West, particularly related to Christian truths revealed by faith and discovered by science, underscore the vulnerability of the Catholic Church today.
