Pertaining to a society where Catholic values are no longer relevant.
It was predictable that this post-Catholic American-Lebanese writer would be highlighted from a Lebanese-Egyptian journal that had long pioneered pan-Arab national consciousness in Egypt.2001, Dennis Walker, “Catholic Lebanese Writers under the French Mandate: The Response to High Arabic Literature Penned Beyond Lebanon”, in The Harp. A Review of Syriac, Oriental, and Ecumenical studies, volume 16. Festschrift G. Panicker, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, published 2012, →DOI, →ISBN, page 118:
“The Left has a hard time admitting that the core of its message could go hand-in-hand with a coherent and politically mobilized group of voters who are Catholic or post-Catholic,” Wojciech Przybylski of the Res Publica think-tank in Warsaw says.2021, Jo Harper, “3: Modern Poland’s Shifting Political Blocs”, in Our Man in Warszawa. How the West Misread Poland, Budapest: Central European University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 45:
post-Catholic
noun
Etymology From post- + Catholic.
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An advocate of a society with values postdating Catholicism.
Like Hunt, I am a postCatholic, but it is difficult for me to define Christians as justice-seeking.1991, Carol Anne Douglas, “[Review of] Fierce Tenderness: A Feminist Theology of Friendship, Mary E. Hunt”, in Off Our Backs, volume 21, number 4, page 18b: