Is There a Catholic Plot to Overthrow the American Founding? | Ep. 8

The number of new Catholic converts just hit a 20-year high, driven largely by young men searching for a faith with roots, authority, and tradition.

But alongside this Catholic revival, something else is growing — something that calls itself Catholic but may not be: Catholic Integralism. Its proponents argue that the state must submit to the Church, that only baptized Catholics deserve full citizenship, and that the American founding — the Declaration, the Constitution, the separation of church and state — is heresy.

And they're not just in the academy. They're in the White House.

James M Patterson is an associate professor of public affairs in the Institute of American Civics at the University of Tennessee's Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs. He's also a contributing editor at Law and Liberty. He's President of the Ciceronian Society, and he's an affiliated scholar for the Center for Religion, Culture and Democracy. He's written two books, Religion in the Public Square and the upcoming book Why Post Liberalism Failed.