Sean Rameswaram
speaker
7,113 appearances
119 recordings
4 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Sep
Sean Rameswaram’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The right to religious freedom has its foundation in the very dignity of the human person, as this dignity is known through the revealed Word of God.
It is very important, especially where a pluralistic society prevails, that there be a correct notion of the relationship between the political community and the church.
Although the church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or accursed by God, as if this followed from the Holy Scriptures.
But it also gets to what is really going on.
It's not about the Latin mass.
They love to argue about that stuff.
The bigger dynamics that I wanted to get to in a New York Times op-ed I wrote about this are that these really channel the same dynamics we're seeing in the secular world, in the political world of this kind of
Christian nationalism, this nationalist populism, where it's this sort of civilizational fight to retain the privilege and position, mainly of white European folks, who see America, the United States of old, being taken away from them, the France or the England, the glories of empire of the past, being taken away, what is rightfully ours.
That kind of resentment is what they are using as a wedge issue.
That's really their platform of grievance against what they perceive as a loss of status.
If you're looking at the global church, these folks are already outliers.
They've already lost.
When Pope Leo was elected, they lost in a global sense.
In the American sense, in the smaller kind of Western sense, the jury is still out because they are much larger.
This kind of conservative oppositional mentality is much wider in the United States.
And will that triumph?
Will they try to make peace with Leo, the first American pope?
Will they recognize that he could be around for 20 years and we better take a step back, take a beat?
Otherwise, we'll be irrelevant.
Or, you know, will they just persist here in the United States as kind of right-wing Catholicism, which is ascendant?
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