# Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis - Hardcover

by **Massimo Borghesi** (Author), **Barry Hudock** (Translator)

**_2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention Pope Francis_**

**_2022 Catholic Media Association honorable mention in English translation edition_**

One element of the church that Pope Francis was elected to lead in 2013 was an ideology that might be called the "American" model of Catholicism--the troubling result of efforts by intellectuals like Michael Novak, George Weigel, and Richard John Neuhaus to remake Catholicism into both a culture war colossus and a prop for ascendant capitalism.

After laying the groundwork during the 1980s and armed with a selective and manipulative reading of Pope John Paul II's 1991 encyclical _Centesimus Annus_, these neoconservative commentators established themselves as authoritative Catholic voices throughout the 1990s, viewing every question through a liberal-conservative ecclesial-political lens. The movement morphed further after the 9/11 terror attacks into a startling amalgamation of theocratic convictions, which led to the troubling theo-populism we see today.

The election of the Latin American pope represented a mortal threat to all of this, and a poisonous backlash was inevitable, bringing us to the brink of a true "American schism." This is the drama of today's Catholic Church. In _Catholic Discordance: Neoconservatism vs. the Field Hospital Church of Pope Francis_, Massimo Borghesi--who masterfully unveiled the pope's own intellectual development in his _The Mind of Pope Francis_\--analyzes the origins of today's Catholic neoconservative movement and its clash with the church that Francis understands as a "field hospital" for a fragmented world.

### Author Biography

Massimo Borghesi is professor of moral philosophy at the University of Perugia. He is the author of several books, including _The Mind of Pope Francis: Jorge Mario Bergoglio's Intellectual Journey_ (Liturgical Press, 2018) and volumes on Augusto del Noce, Luigi Giussani, and political theology.

**Number of Pages:** 280

**Dimensions:** 1.2 x 9 x 6.1 IN

**Publication Date:** December 20, 2021

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