Reviewed for The Remnant Newspaper
“Western civilization owes far more to the Catholic Church than most people – Catholics included – often realize. The Church, in fact, built Western civilization” -Thomas E. Woods
There are few in this audience who have not heard or read that the Church of Rome has been responsible for the many of the current evils of this world. Everything from being charged with aiding in the genocide of native people, to fostering the institution of slavery, are accusations that have been leveled against the Catholic Church. Several years ago, the professoriate and student body of Georgetown University, the first Catholic university in America, debated “What, if anything, is owed to the descendants of slaves who were sold to help ensure the college’s survival?” As a result of intense student and professorial pressure, in 2016 the university’s administrators agreed to remove the names of the Jesuits Rev. Thomas F. Mulledy and Rev. William McSherry, the college presidents involved in the 1832 sale, from two campus buildings. However, that action did not change the aggressive push by the American Left to continue to indict the founders of Western Civilization, the Church among them. Nothing ever does.