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 […]

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 […]