Opinion
Sexploits and crisis: Is it 2002 revisited?
The current drama of Hollywood stars, media types, athletes and politicians is the fruit of the hyper-sexualization of society as a whole for decades at […]
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Natural law outside Catholicism? Regime-agnosticism and agnostic regimes
The question at hand is: what do we make of America’s schizophrenic natural law pedigree, rejecting but needing Catholic ideas? (And John Locke, history’s most […]
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Hot Air vs. Capital Punishment: A Reply to Paul Griffiths and David Bentley Hart
Griffiths’ review in First Things of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed is rich in condescension, high in dudgeon, and largely devoid of substantive […]
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Yes, traditional Church teaching on capital punishment is definitive
given the “hermeneutic of continuity” emphasized by Pope Benedict XVI – and given especially the teaching of the First Vatican Council that popes have no […]
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Now is the time for a “Third Spring” in England
Famously, in 1852 John Henry Newman, preaching at a celebration of that restoration of our Hierarchy, spoke of a ‘Second Spring’. This yielded a rich […]
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The HollyChurch Double Standard
God willing, if the long Lent of 2002 led to badly needed reforms for the Catholic Church, the long fall of 2017 will do the […]
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Is there really a definitive teaching of the Church on capital punishment?
A second response to Professor Edward Feser […]
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Superstition, Dissent, and Scandal? A brief defense of Fr. Thomas Weinandy
Some pundits from both progressive and orthodox quarters have been quick to criticize and even condemn Fr. Weinandy and his missive to the Pope.Thus, a […]
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Fr. Weinandy was clear and direct. The USCCB was not.
The Bishops had the right – perhaps the duty – to require Fr. Weinandy’s resignation. Nevertheless, the Catholic faithful in every state of life in […]
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Catholic theologians must set an example of intellectual honesty: A reply to Prof. Robert Fastiggi
In order to defend the suggestion that a pope could teach that capital punishment is always and intrinsically immoral, you have to maintain that the […]