Christians must enter or re-enter public life as protagonists—artists, parents, teachers, lawmakers—who show, rather than merely assert, the excellence of the Christian vision and the love it conveys.

The failings of kings do not disprove the form; they prove the need for transcendent grace to animate it.

Though the French retain a fair bit of cultural conservatism, the acknowledgement of its roots in Christian anthropology and transcendent moral objectivity is largely absent.