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Sacred Spaces
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True Beauty
O Vos Omnes (Newman University Church, Dublin, Ireland)
RECENT COLUMNS
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Francis X. Maier
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John M. Grondelski
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Robert Royal
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Brad Miner
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Eduardo J. Echeverria
NEWS
COMMENTARY
Who invented the “individual”?
George Weigel, First Things
Friday, January 14, 2022
Catholics, that’s who. How can anyone who has read St. Augustine’s Confessions, the first true autobiography, not find there a source of the modern concept of the individual? And could there be any concept of the “individual” as a bearer of “unalienable” rights if Christianity had not cut the state down to size by refusing to worship state authority?