"American Catholics in the New Gilded Age.".(While We're At It)(Brief article)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, May, 2008 by Neuhaus, Richard John
"American Catholics in the New Gilded Age." It's not a pretty picture, according to Daniel J. Morrissey, professor of law at Gonzaga University, Spokane. Writing in America, a Jesuit magazine, he says: "The masters of the universe in the new golden age of greed were aided and abetted by the only tangible achievements of the Bush administration: its tax reductions and deregulatory schemes.
Every profile of contemporary American Catholics must come to grips with the uncomfortable fact that a majority of the Catholics who attend church every week voted for George W. Bush in 2004." He then adds, "Maybe pragmatic considerations were uppermost in their minds at the time." Or maybe they were weighing something other than all economics all the time. Like, for instance,...
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