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Carl Schmitt and Donoso Cortés

Carl Schmitt's Catholic provenance is well-known.¹ In his youth, he admired the Church's stability and juridical perfection. He also admired the Church's flexibility in uniting the most diverse political systems without losing its own principles. However, in the 1923 work in which he described the Church's complexio oppositorum,² he was already becoming disillusioned. By 1929, he was convinced that, instead of providing a firm foundation for political theories, theology generated more controversies than any other discipline. His disillusionment with the Church became final after WWII, because it regularly meddled in affairs beyond its purview. Schmitt often referred to the religious...