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1. Josef Pieper, Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power, 26, 32.
2. Roger Scruton, Face of God, 123–24.
3. Rilke quotations are from Rilke: Selected Poems, with English translations and notes by C. F. MacIntyre (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968). Cited poems are “Evening” (“Abend”) and “The Angels” (“Die Engel”).
4. Quotations from John Paul II throughout this chapter are from his Letter of His Holiness Pope John Paul II to Artists, 1999.
5. See Henri de Lubac, S.J., The Drama of Atheist Humanism (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995), 5, 24–25, and throughout.
6. Thomas Aquinas, De Malo, q. 5, a. I; cited in de Lubac, above.
7. Towards a Pastoral Approach to Culture, Pontifical Council for Culture, Vatican City, 1999.
8. Raissa Maritain, The Prince of This World (Toronto: Institute of Medieval Studies / Catholic Extension Press, 1933).
9. Leszek Kolakowski, The Key to Heaven and Conversations with the Devil (New York: Grove Press, 1972), 117–29, translated by Celina Wieniewska and Salvator Attanasio.
10. Gerard V. Bradley, “What’s Behind the HHS Mandate?” Public Discourse, June 5, 2012.
11. Gerard V. Bradley, “The Future of Catholic Institutional Ministries in the United States,” in Unquiet Americans: U.S. Catholics and the Genuine Common Good (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2016), 79–96.
12. Michael Hanby, “Reflections on the Cultural and Political Situation Confronting the Catholic Church in America,” white paper commissioned by the author, May 2015; all Hanby references in this chapter are taken from this white paper.
13. “Americans Want Religion—For Everyone but Themselves,” American Interest, June 6, 2013.
14. Laura Meckler, “Secular Voters Raise Their Voices,” Wall Street Journal, June 4–5, 2016.
15. Pierre Manent, The City of Man (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 1.
16. Jonathan Sacks, “On Being a Creative Minority,” 2013 Erasmus Lecture, First Things / Institute on Religion and Public Life, New York, October 21, 2013.
17. Václav Havel, “The Power of the Powerless,” in Open Letters: Selected Writings, 1965–1990, translated and edited by Paul Wilson (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), 125–214; drafted in Prague, October 1978, shortly before his arrest.
18. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, No Rusty Swords: Letters, Lectures and Notes, 1928–36, vol. 1, edited and introduced by Edwin H. Robertson, translated by Edwin H. Robertson and John Bowden (New York: Harper and Row, 1965), 309.