Excerpt from Les Catholiques Et la Liberte Politique Etats - Unis est eminemment chretienne, a pu dire un pretre (l) bien a meme de la connaitre et de l'apprecier. Qu'on n'ose donc plus soutenir que l'esprit du christianisme, et par consequent de l'e glise est oppose a la liberte. Les catholiques n'ont rien a craindre pour leur foi en se prononcant resolu ment en faveur de la liberte. Qu'ils le sachent aussi, cette resolution est le plus grand service qu'ils puissent ren dre a l'eglise et a leur pays. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

This volume probes and deciphers the tensions and contradictions that underlie modern European Liberal Catholicism. Beginning with the French revolution and looking at dialogues between European 'public moralists', the book discusses the ways in which liberal Catholics loosened their bonds with religion, all the while relying on it. It reflects on how and why they promoted a post-revolutionary state and society based on religious dogma and morality, and what new liberal order and socio-political and religious models they proposed. Beyond the analysis of the work of these Catholic intellectuals, the question of their conceiving a specific liberal approach through Catholicism is also investigated. More generally, it prompts a vital reappraisal of the political, ideological and philosophical pressures that the religious question caused in the redefinition of Western European post-revolutionary liberalism.