Böckenförde on Our Lady of Guadalupe

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Exactly my thoughts on Our Lady of Guadalupe v Morrisey-Beru (US Supreme Court, 2020):

“As the new ethical liberalism fails to take conscience seriously, it also risks undermining the claims of community. It is at least arguable that the central idea of liberalism is not even the free individual, but the community of persons committed to the collective pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, free from the coercive orders of politics and law. This idea reaches back behind the second more individualistic wave of liberalism, associated with the Enlightenment and the values of the French Revolution, to what Böckenförde—and others such as Harold Berman and Larry Siedentop—identified as the first step towards the liberal secular state in the 11th century Gregorian reforms and the emergence of the Church as a competing authority to kingly rule But it is also present in 19th century struggles to disentangle church from state…

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