General
Capital punishment: Intrinsically evil or morally permissible?
What we appear to have on our hands is a case of interpretive undecidability. […]
Catechism of the Catholic Church
General
Some questions for defenders of capital punishment
The historical record is less consistent than many suppose and it does not, in fact, support the claim that the Church has committed itself irreformably […]
General
Catechism changes demand the impossible
The new text on capital punishment seems to require Catholics to substitute this Pope’s judgment on this subject for their own. […]
The Dispatch
I believe the Church because I believe in God
Heaven is indeed our final goal – the Church Triumphant. We need to keep our eyes fixed on that goal. […]
Features
The Lord’s Prayer and the path to our Lord’s Ascension
The only way we can utter the Pater noster words is through the grace of Christ; we do not speak to God in this manner by natural […]
Analysis
Pope Francis, the Lérinian legacy of Vatican II, and capital punishment
I’m sure there are other reasons, but at least for these three reasons I think that Pope Francis cannot provide a Lérinian justification of the […]
Editorial
In gratitude for the gift of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”
How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]
The Dispatch
The Catechism of the Catholic Church at 25
The structure of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which mirrors the Catechism of the Council of Trent, reaches back to the early Church and […]
The Dispatch
Are we reading the same Code?
Mary McAleese, a former president of Ireland who has a background in canon law, misrepresented what Church law states about the legitimacy of children born out of […]