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There seems to be general agreement that liberal democracy in the Western world is in crisis. We can see this in the range of political upheavals over the past few years, from the 2016 election of Donald Trump and the disconcerting reality of an American president expressing open admiration for authoritarian regimes abroad, to the ongoing chaos ove...

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This Friday marks the 100th anniversary of one of the seminal moments in modern Catholic social action and political engagement, as it was on Jan. 18, 1919, that Don Luigi Sturzo founded Italy’s Popular Party. For Americans unfamiliar with Sturzo, he’s a bit like the John Courtney Murray of Italy, meaning the obligatory point of departure for any C...

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