The Forgotten Foundations of Constitutional Law (Public Discourse): “Long before the separation of powers and judicial review were given written form, Greek philosophy, Roman law, Christian theology, and the medieval doctrine of paired jurisdictions laid the deeper architecture of constitutional government.”
‘Endemic to the culture’ – Closed consultation process raises concern before Charter vote (The Pillar): “Indeed, soon after the U.S. bishops discussed the document briefly on Wednesday, the victim-advocacy group Awake urged the bishops to reconsider the limited scope of their revisions.”
Liberal Protestantism Is Still Protestantism (Catholic Answers): “When conservative and liberal Protestants clash, what is the real conflict?”
Sexology’s Fathers: The Forgotten Roots of the Transgender Phenomenon (Fairer Disputations): “Twentieth-century sexologists haunt contemporary studies of sexuality and gender. They have left us with much confusion and little clarity …”
“it’s for the children” as trojan horse (bad cattitude – Substack): “so they got a bit cunning and dressed it up as a moral crusade to ‘protect the children.’ but it’s not: it’s a trojan horse for a fully locked-down ID mandatory internet in which only approved outlets may serve and approved speakers speak.”
Magnifica Humanitas and the Silenced Concert: Justinian’s Symphonia and Europe’s Constitutional Amnesia (The European Conservative): “The question is not whether Leo XIV has spoken well. It is whether the institutional architecture exists for any temporal authority to answer, and whether any European institution has been authorised to ask the anthropological question the encyclical raises.”
Are They Really Catholic?: 4 New Models of Catholic Identity (Church Life Journey): “In my role as Director for Catholic Identity for the Diocese of Cleveland, the most common question I hear from parents, donors, pastors, and others in reference to our schools is, ‘But are they really Catholic?'”
Roger Scruton: Philosophical Christian and Scourge of Nihilism Par Excellence (Public Discourse): “Rather than consign Scruton to the camp of the nihilists, I think it is more just to be grateful for his efforts to liberate and defend the soul and to fight so courageously against the ubiquitous “culture of repudiation.”
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Re #7 Are They Really Catholic?
If you have to ask the question, you have your answer.
#7 again – This is a thoughtful article.
Footnote 8 – Giving a blessing instead of Communion to students who have not made their First Communion or who are not Catholic is discouraged?
Really? (But giving Communion to of-age Catholic students who haven’t been at Mass since the last school Mass is okay).
regarding the Silenced Concert
The Pope does not issue government or international administration. The Pope is an instrument of grace, dealing in its myriad presences and functions as spiritual process. Caesar and the lawyers do comprehend grace, nor does the non-church media.
@ The Forgotten Foundations of Constitutional Law
Much of our juridical understand regards precepts defending human life, proscription of suicide, abortion are found in the un written laws of the Common law, in our American instance the Common Law of England introduced to Colonies by Britain later retained after the war for independence.
Common Law today is considered by jurists as enlightened Law, unwritten though understand through previous recorded attitudes and judgments defend human life condemning suicide, abortion. British legal jurist Sir William Blackstone cites this in his writings.
Much of Common Law is expressed in the values and judgments of our Christian heritage, Roman law prime example Cicero and the natural law. Retention of Common Law principles is dependent on the spiritual efficacy of a culture, here in American and Europe now under siege by the ravages of so called democratic freedom.