Making Disciples of All Nations

Chad Pecknold’s Cardinal Laghi Lecture concerns the rise and fall of the heresy Pope Leo XIII called “Americanism”—and what it means for the Catholic mission to America today

Professor Chad Pecknold delivered the Pio Cardinal Laghi Chair Lecture at the Pontifical College Josephinum on March 29, 2023. We are publishing the entire lecture free to the public—please consider subscribing and become a supporter of our work here at Postliberal Order.

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