The barrage of conservative pressure that you have had to face in recent
weeks comes from people who wish to turn back the clock on church-state
relations to a time before Vatican II, when the Church did what it
could to impose its Catholic vision upon the constitutional systems of
secular states. Fifty years ago the Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner called
this “the heresy of integrism.” It rears its ugly head wherever anyone
attempts to take Catholic teaching and use it as a template for the
ethical or legal system of a pluralistic society. It is vitally
important to distinguish between the right to hold our views and the
right to impose them on others, and I am afraid that the likes of the
Cardinal Newman Society simply do not understand this.
Link (here) to The Cardinal Newman Society read more of Paul Lakeland's statement.
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