Not to Caesar but to Peter: Why the Catholic Church is a Perfect Society
Drawing on the Catholic Church’s self-understanding as a complete, self-sufficient (in the Aristotelian sense, “perfect”) society, Not to Caesar but to Peter explains how the Catholic Church’s claimed legal authority provides a stable basis for religious liberty in civil law. If the Church were to remember this traditional claim of her legal authority, she could improve U.S. law’s commitment to protecting religious liberty for religious institutions and communities. In so doing, the Church can both grow in American life and, by being who she truly is, respond to common misunderstandings about…
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