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Article: Managing decline.(The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives)(Book review)
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- Conscience
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- December 22, 2007
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The Catholic Church and the Nation-State: Comparative Perspectives Paul Christopher Manuel, Lawrence Christopher Reardon and Clyde Wilcox (eds.) (Georgetown University Press, 2006, 283pp) 978-1589011151, $26.95
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND the Nation-State is a collection of outstanding research papers that articulate and examine contemporary issues of religion, society, faith and culture. It is important to do this, according to the editors, because as the church mixes its missions today, it also transforms itself. This is a complicated process, but in bringing the spiritual dimension to politics, the church constantly makes moral judgments; a difficult undertaking, ...