Ecclesia et Civitas

What Should We Do About Natural Law?

February 4, 2016 James Kalb 0

Catholics talk about natural law, but what’s it all about? Basically, it’s a system of principles that guides human life in accordance with our nature and our good, insofar as those can be known by […]

Sojourns with Schall

The “True” Islam

January 24, 2016 James V. Schall, S.J. 0

I. Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will […]

Ecclesia et Civitas

Theory, Practice, and the Church

January 14, 2016 James Kalb 0

There has been a great deal of talk in the Church lately about a supposed opposition between rules and reality, theology and life, doctrine and pastoral considerations. Some of the talk has gone to extremes, […]

Sojourns with Schall

Novel Reflections on “Submission”

December 29, 2015 James V. Schall, S.J. 1

“’It’s submission,’ Rediger murmured. ‘The shocking and simple idea, which had never been so forcefully expressed, that the summit of human happiness resides in the most absolute submission. I hesitate to discuss the idea with […]