50th anniversary of John Courtney Murray’s We Hold These Truths

December 29, 2010

Writing for The American Spectator, G. Tracy Mehan III pays tribute to Father John Courtney Murray’s We Hold These Truths on the 50th anniversary of its publication. The Jesuit’s influential work, subtitled “Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition,” has received much praise and criticism over the ensuing decades.

 

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Further information:

• We Hold These Truths Because They Are True (The American Spectator)
• Archbishop Chaput: Life in the Late Republic: The Catholic Role in America after Virtue (Catholic Culture)
• Richard John Neuhaus: The Vatican vs. "Americanism" (Catholic Culture)
• Donald D’Elia: We Hold These Truths and More (Franciscan University Press)