Don’t immanentize the eschaton” has been a conservative axiom since William F. Buckley popularized it in the 1960s and 1970s. The slogan cautions us: If you try to build a heavenly city on earth, you’re liable to turn totalitarian, forcing imperfect people to conform to your ideal of perfection. Utopians minimize or ignore the tenacity of evil, especially in themselves. Utopian dreams end in dystopian thuggery.
POPE FRANCIS TO CONFER NEW LAY MINISTRIES FOR FIRST TIME IN ST. PETER’S BASILICA
The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will confer the ministries of catechist, lector, and acolyte upon lay men and
