Christopher Ferrara

Christopher A. Ferrara is an author, attorney, and president of the American Catholic Lawyers Association.

Liberty, the God That Failed

One of Ferrara's more well known books, Ferrara argues that Liberty is not a political ideal but a rival faith, incompatible with Catholicism. Ferrara argues that the Founders were "of ruined intellect and corrupt heart", who forced Liberty upon a people who did not want it.

According to Ferrara, "the claim that the Framers created a 'limited government' of 'checks and balances' borders on the ridiculous".

Conversely, a reviewer notes that Ferrara overlooks the fact that the mores in place at the time of the founding were consistently encouraged by the Founders. Many of these mores came from once-Catholic Europe, from countries where the bedrock Catholicism has been abandoned, something Ferrara admits.

Works

• The Secret Still Hidden, 2000
• The Great Façade: Vatican II and the Regime of Novelty in the Catholic Church, 2002
• The New Rosary, 2005
• EWTN: A Network Gone Wrong, 2008
• The Church and the Libertarian: A Defense of the Catholic Church's Teaching on Man, Economy, and State, 2010
• Liberty, the God That Failed: Policing the Sacred and Constructing the Myths of the Secular State, from Locke to Obama', 2012