Michel Therrien, STL, STD, What We Need Now
Wednesday, October 15, 2025
“Classical” Liberalism gave primacy to the individual over the common good in basically all circumstances and endorsed each person’s absolute right to self-determination. The Church has always had difficulty with this philosophy precisely because of its unqualified blending with atomistic individualism and personal autonomy. Pope Leo XIII laid out the problem in his encyclical, Libertas praestantissimum (On Human Liberty, 1888).
