团结与共融：美国天主教内部的资金与意识形态之争

Progressive Catholicism has long been an active force in both the Church and American public life. One need think only of the advocacy of the Knights of Labor—the majority of whom were Catholic—for the eight-hour workday, inspiring Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum—or of Leo XIV’s own ministry as a young priest among those struggling with addiction on Chicago’s South Side. However, Jack Hanson’s essay [“Radical Reformation,” August] overlooks one reason conservatives came to dominate the public image of the American Church: money. As the journalist Mary Jo McConahay has documented, wealthy conservative donors, both Catholic and non-Catholic, have long been financing universities, legal organizations, think tanks, and media outlets that elevate one vision of Catholicism over others. …