Kenneth Pennington observed that “Pax and Concordia [peace and concord] were concepts deeply embedded in the medieval imagination.” It is all the more striking, then, that today peace as such is largely absent from public discourse in the Anglosphere and the wider sphere of Western liberalism. (Hence we ought not be surprised that Pope Francis, not a li…
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