Hilaire Belloc and the Catholic Cultural Revival
There was a time, two centuries ago, when the Catholic Church was woefully weak in the Anglophone world. The British Empire was beginning to straddle the globe, spreading its creed of Enlightenment philosophy and utilitarianism. In the relatively young United States of America, the new nation was stamped with the Puritanism of many of its founders. It was the age of the WASP ascendency…