Often, we hear talk about how the Church decided to reject integrism and embrace secular ways of thinking on a number of issues, especially in "Gaudium et Spes," and its invocation of "the world." Besides the fact that the document in many ways stood on a faulty understanding of modern liberal culture. Furthermore, there are specifically Catholic ways of thinking about every subject under the sun: politics, sex, art, economics, science, pscychology, etc.
Many of these specifically Catholic ways of thinking about the world are chronicled in the ever-prolific historian Thomas Woods' new book "How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization." Never one to shy away from a controversial argument, Woods takes on those that claim to be "free and civilized," we need to abandon religion.