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The article offers information on the need for conservatives to redefine virtue within a shared moral vision that reflects American traditions and culture. Topics discussed include the decline of religious influence on American life; the challenges posed by secular elites to conservative values; and the necessity for a coherent conservative response that emphasizes obligations and community over individual rights.

The article focuses on the impact of the Second Vatican Council and its document Gaudium et Spes on the Church's engagement with modernity. Topics include the tensions identified by the Council between confidence and doubt, the reception and misinterpretation of the Council's aims, and the evolving secular worldview that challenges Christian beliefs.

The article discusses the concept of "Synodality and the Spirit of Truth" in the context of the Catholic Church's historical divisions between traditionalism and modernism. The author highlights the ongoing philosophical and theological questions that are deeper and more significant than the current pontificate and the superficialities of the synodal process, which have been anticipated and debated for decades.

The article presents the discussion on exploring the prevailing sense of dread in American politics transcending political affiliations. Topics include raising questions about the fragility of the American political landscape and the erosion of trust in authority; and emphasizing the importance of understanding the root causes of this sense of dread in American politics.

The article discusses the relationship between Christian politics and religion and the role of state and church in sustaining the maintenance of a Christian society. It mentions how the construction of modern politics was the process of transforming Christianity into a modern religion, how to justify cuius religion and eius religion, and the relationship between the temporal and spiritual powers.

The article discusses why technology or technocracy has become a paradigm and why it is problematic. It author argues that it is not the act of human creation that is inherently wicked, nor is it that humanity has not benefited from technological advancements. It suggests that human creation is a natural consequence of the image of God and man's dominion. It highlight the problem arises when technology becomes a paradigm or a dominant worldview.

The article discusses the views of author Michael Hanby on postliberalism. By acknowledging the positive openings produced by integralist and postliberal questioning, while insisting on the insufficiency of their proposed answers, he concludes that the only way for postliberalism to move in practice beyond liberalism is for it to recover the idea, at the heart of the Church, of a truth irreducible to practice.

The article analyzes the book "America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding" by Robert Reilly which argues that the American Founding was based on natural law principles from the premodern Catholic tradition. Topics discussed include the political nature of the argument presented in the book, role of the advent of liberalism and of liberal societies in the death of God in the modern West, and the effect of a secular social order that excludes God from reality on the modern world and the Church.

The article reflects on the role of technological revolution in the nature and fulfillment of the liberal society in the U.S. Topics discussed include the effect of situating the early modern revolution in political philosophy within the revolution in natural philosophy, metaphysics and theology on the origins and essence of liberalism, technological essence of the liberal conception of freedom and nature, and the role of the digital revolution in the triumph of the sexual revolution.

The article offers information related to de-hellenization of Christianity. Topics discussed include gauzy mercy without justice or truth appears suspiciously self-serving for Church, Newman-esque theory of organic development and a Kuhnian theory of paradigm change and shared world of a community of practitioners as discussed by Thomas Kuhn in "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions."

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