Otto von Habsburg, eldest son of Karl I Habsburg, meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican, 04 October 2004. (Pppl/AFP via Getty Images)
The Catholic intellectual world needs better political thought and less politics. Especially in the United States, Catholicism since the seventies has sought to make itself relevant to the modern world by tying itself to causes of societal reform and social justice. And, not coincidentally, the divisions among Catholics in America and elsewhere now run largely along explicitly political lines.
