Does The Catholic Thing approach issues from a conservative point of view?
Royal: This is not tending to be political. We’re not Republican, we’re not supporting any candidate, but we do look at pubic issues from a faithful Catholic standpoint, which in the United States means that we’re conservative on issues like abortion, homosexual marriage, embryonic stem-cell research. A new column on immigration criticizes Republicans for being somewhat contemptuous of Hispanics. The overall orientation probably looks conservative to people on the outside, but it’s also got other elements in it. The Catholic Thing is [a term] used by some of those old British converts like Chesterton, Hillaire Belloc and maybe even Evelyn Waugh to refer to the concrete reality of the Church. We think that the Church is not simply on the sidelines, making comments about political and social issues, but it also inspires the culture in a broad sense not only in literature and music and other things, but the kind of world that we live in. One of the reasons that I started The Catholic Thin
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