If you ignore the references to Catholicism and substitute the word conservative for Catholic, Glen Arbery’s essay at The Imaginative Conservative has something useful to say. Here is his conclusion, but you will want to see how he gets there.
At present, clearly, inhuman rationalism and technology have us in their thrall. But with grace and the poetry of experience, we can make a start back into the given, back into the real. As I’ve said before, it’s the long game of education. That it has present rewards is evident in our students, but a cultural transformation is what we are about.
