The Crusader in a Suit: Kevin Roberts and the Catholic Civil War Behind America’s New Right
As Pope Leo XIV moves to dismantle Opus Dei, a battle for the Church’s soul enters politics, and Kevin Roberts is the man to watch.
The Overlooked Crusader at the Center of a Catholic Civil War
Kevin Roberts doesn’t shout. He doesn’t need to. As president of the Heritage Foundation, the nerve center of the American conservative movement, he operates with the confidence of a man who believes he is carrying out divine order. Roberts is not a typical political actor. He is the political theologian of a project that seeks to fuse the machinery of state with the authority of the Church, or at least, his version of the Church.
To understand him is to understand a deeper and largely unacknowledged story: the fracture within Catholicism itself.
The Catholic Divide No One Talks About
