With respect to @GabrielRossman and @roddreher and others I think it may be a good thing that @firstthingsmag published a defense of Pius IX's conduct in the Mortara affair. It really does bring an ongoing intra-Catholic argument to a necessarily sharp point.
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All of the ongoing talk about recovering the church's 19th century political tradition, reviving integralism, pondering Catholic political thinking for a post-liberal age can be vague and abstract; it is useful to take up the specific question of coercion.
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outflank him by defending the persecution of the Cathars! that would be rly edgy
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