The Devil’s in the Details of Modernity

Following a sermon by Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Edward Feser examines the elements which have governed the modern age, and he charts a postliberal path for putting this diabolical modernity behind us.

The nature of the diabolical was of special interest to Archbishop Fulton Sheen, as evidenced by a recently published compilation of his writings on the subject. In a powerful sermon, Sheen analyzed the diabolical from both the psychological and the theological points of view. As he also emphasized, the topic has important implications for politics. Wha…