Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., who now serves as Archbishop of Philadelphia, incisively explains many of the reasons for this paradox in a new e-book entitled A Heart on Fire: Catholic Witness and the Next America, published by Image Books (a division of Random House, Inc.).
Nowadays the skeptics seem to have commandeered the megaphones. Chaput writes:
Freedom of religion and freedom of the press are two key pillars of our country’s identity. But more than sixty years ago, the writer George Orwell saw something curious emerging in the character of modern journalism—an erosion of free thought and expression unique to democratic societies.
Chaput prescribes two remedies for the anemic role of Christians in public life. One is personal soul-searching on the part of Catholic citizens. The other is a return to the fullness of the Catholic heritage.
Catholic higher education is heir to the greatest intellectual, moral and cultural patrimony in human history. It has a deeply satisfying answer to who and why man is. It’s beautiful because it’s true. It has nothing to be embarrassed about and every reason to be on fire with confidence and apostolic zeal. We only defeat ourselves—and we certainly don’t serve God—if we allow ourselves to ever think otherwise.
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