Not to Caesar but to Peter
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Not to Caesar but to Peter: Why the Catholic Church is a Perfect Society
The Church has long understood herself as a "perfect society," complete and self-sufficient in her own order, with real authority of her own. In Not to Caesar but to Peter, religious-liberty lawyer William J. Haun shows how recovering this traditional teaching can give religious freedom a firmer footing in American law.
Haun argues that when the Church remembers who she is, she can better protect her institutions and communities, and answer two common errors: that she is merely one more voluntary club in civil society, or that she is a power to be merged with the state.
A thoughtful, well-grounded study for readers interested in Church and state, canon law, and the future of religious liberty.
Details: Paperback, 280 pages. Angelico Press, September 2026. ISBN 9798892802260.