Cultural values are the stories and images, rituals and practices through which humans express their social nature

Cultural Crisis and the Long Game: 

Fr. Lonergan’s Contemporary Relevance

by R. J. Snell

The Church, it is sometimes said, thinks in terms of centuries, not years or decades … or election cycles. Without intending to minimize the importance of this upcoming election and its implications for economic and foreign policy matters, it’s worth reminding ourselves that a long game is being played as well, a game with civilizational and cultural stakes.

While I’m generally skeptical in the face of apocalyptic fears, there can be no doubt that we find ourselves grappling with the loss of a pre-modern world where we oriented our institutions and selves in keeping with objective cosmological, ontological, and communal orders. 

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