Massimo Faggioli on the zombies walking among us

Following threats of legal action, and restrictions on his freedom of movement and expression, the Italian-born, US-resident scholar of church history and politics Massimo Faggioli has landed in Ireland to take up his new post at Trinity College Dublin's Loyola Institute. So how will a US-born pope respond to what Massimo describes in American Catholicism as 'an army of zombie ideas that we thought were dead'? Recommendations: Antonio Spadaro, 'Trump & the Grand Theatre of the World,' in Commonweal Massimo Faggioli's latest Commonweal piece, 'Continent at a Crossroads? Europe and the rise of right-wing Catholicism' Geraldine Doogue on the Schumann Declaration and the pope in Eureka Street Follow The Big Tent on Facebook. We'd love your thoughts!