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Can we have Catholicism without dogma?

Rusty Reno’s recent book The Return of the Strong Gods catalogues the concerted effort after the second world war of philosophers, political thinkers, economists and theologians to exterminate dogma. They looked at the legacy of war, revolution and political chaos in Western culture over the last five hundred years, and concluded that the chaos was caused by people fighting over dogma—political ideologies and economic dogma, but most of all religious dogma.

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