His Eminence was the only Cardinal to resign voluntarily from the College of Cardinals in the 20th century, over the Papal condemnation of Action française. A trenchant critique of liberalism.
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Exciting news from our friends at Arouca Press!
This new edition of Billot's classic work on liberalism features an
introduction and a newly revised translation by Thomas Storck. It also
includes a foreword by Fr. Thomas Crean, OP.
For the first time in many years, liberalism, the dominant ideology and
foundational myth of modernity, is undergoing a serious critique.
Seminars and debates have been held in recent months on liberalism and
its effect upon Western culture and important books published which
question liberalism's contributions to the cultures of Europe and its
extensions. But there have been critics of liberalism from its
beginnings in the eighteenth century, and if we overlook their
contribution to the debate we risk ignoring a large and important
literature which can broaden our view of what liberalism is and how it
operates. Cardinal Billot's treatise on liberalism, part of a larger
work on the Church and her relations with society, appeared a few years
before World War I and was translated into English in the early 1920s.
This newly revised translation includes an extensive introduction on the
trajectory of liberalism in the United States by Thomas Storck, who
also revised the translation, and a foreword by Fr. Thomas Crean, O.P.
It is an important work to gain a perspective from another century on
the difficulties which liberalism creates and has created in what was
once Christendom.
In an age where Liberalism, in one form or another, dominates the world,
both inside and outside the Church, spreading confusion from an already
diabolically disoriented secular world into the daily life of Catholics
themselves, nothing could be more timely than this translation of
Cardinal Billot's magisterial expression of why the Church must oppose
Liberalism in all its many open and subtle forms. – John Rao (D.Phil., Oxford); Associate Professor of History, St. John's University
As the contemporary political circumstances have revealed to us the many
problems in our American regime, more people are questioning the theory
and practice of classical liberalism. This newly revised translation
by Thomas Storck of Louis Cardinal Billot’s Critique of Liberalism is a
timely retrieval of a political philosophy and theology which
contributes to the debate (both inside and outside the Church) about the
roots of our crises. It helps clarify what is at stake in the age old
struggle for the proper relationship between the Church and the
political order, and an understanding of authentic liberty. This is a
must read for those who are concerned about the present state and future
prospects of America. – Dr. Steven Brust, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Eastern New Mexico University
Before we can scrutinize "the signs of the times,” as the Second Vatican
Council charged Catholics to do, we must understand the basic ideas
that underly the times. The doctrines of Liberalism, a fundamental idea
of our time, are ably and incisively defined and refuted in the pages of
Louis Cardinal Billot’s small treatise, Liberalism. Thomas Storck’s
revised translation of Billot’s text conveys Billot’s thought – which is
really the Church’s thought – with strength and clarity. And Mr.
Storck’s introductory essay ably “translates” Billot’s thesis into a
North American context. Readers will find in this republication of
Billot’s Liberalism not only a key to understanding the errors of our
times, but their effective antidote in the wisdom of Catholic tradition.
– Christopher Zehnder, MA, General Editor and author, the Catholic Textbook Project
ISBN: 978-1-9991827-1-7
Size: 5.5 X 8.5
110 pages
$14.95
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