Resources for Faith, Democracy, and the Common Good: Lessons from John Courtney Murray For Our Times
March 18, 2026
These resources come from the Dahlgren Dialogue Faith, Democracy, and the Common Good: Lessons from John Courtney Murray For Our Times.
Articles
- Cardinal McElroy joins D.C. area faith leaders in issuing statement on immigration enforcement actions (Catholic Standard)
- Cardinal McElroy urges ‘gratitude, compassion, and shared purpose’ to heal national divisions (Catholic Standard)
- Embrace the Discomfort: How Catholics can help depolarize American politics (Commonweal)
- Georgetown panel promotes John Courtney Murray’s legacy of pluralism, religious freedom (Crux, 2017)
- He Held These Truths (America, 2005)
- In interview, Cardinal McElroy says U.S. entry into war with Iran ‘not morally legitimate,’ citing Catholic just war teaching (Catholic Standard)
- Text of Cardinal McElroy’s Red Mass homily: ‘Men and Women of the Law as Architects of Hope’ (Catholic Standard)
- The Pluralism of The American Pope (Real Clear Religion)
- This Is the Way You Beat Trump — and Trumpism (New York Times)
Books
- A Culture of Engagement: Law, Religion, and Morality (2016)
- Christians in the American Empire: Faith and Citizenship in the New World Order (2008)
- Conscience and the Common Good: Reclaiming the Space Between Person and State (2006)
- Law’s Virtues: Fostering Autonomy and Solidarity in American Society (2012)
- Prophecy Without Contempt: Religious Discourse in the Public Square (2016)
- The Search for an American Public Theology: The Contribution of John Courtney Murray (1989)
Podcasts
- Is America Becoming an Autocracy? (On the Media)
Videos
- Faith, Common Good, and Democracy in a Time of Pope Francis and President Trump (Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, 2017)