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The DDF Marian document relies on poor argumentation, reveals double standard

November 4, 2025 Carl E. Olson 138

The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with […]

The Dispatch

All One in Christ is a meticulous, temperate response to Critical Race Theory

November 22, 2022 Gregory J. Sullivan 4

Widespread riots and violence were not the only consequences following the death of George Floyd in police custody in 2020. In our intellectual life, as Edward Feser observes in his taut, riveting new book All […]

Books

The Church’s teachings about racism and the truth about Critical Race Theory

September 8, 2022 Carl E. Olson 39

Edward Feser, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. Called by National Review “one of the best contemporary writers on philosophy”, he is the author of many books including Five […]

Features

Pope Francis’ new comments on the death penalty are incoherent and dangerous

December 18, 2018 Fr. George William Rutler 151

Debate has always been an invigorating and constructive way of defining and refining views, assuming that the debaters have minds of probity and reason. This is increasingly absent in our culture, where subjectivism rules, and […]

General

The death penalty debate and the Church’s magisterium

August 16, 2018 Edward N. Peters 21

I regard the liceity of the death penalty as having been established with infallible certitude by the Church’s ordinary magisterium. […]

Columns

Philosophically knowing nothing but the truth about God

January 25, 2018 Christopher S. Morrissey 4

Dr. Edward Feser’s Five Proofs of the Existence of God’s lively approach demonstrates that natural theology’s funeral directors, despite all their bluster, will be buried […]

Analysis

Is opposition to the death penalty Thomistic?

November 17, 2017 Joseph G. Trabbic 19

Given Pope Francis’s own high regard for St. Thomas (together with the historical papal approbation he has enjoyed) when it comes to doctrinal issues, we […]

Features

Is there really a definitive teaching of the Church on capital punishment?

November 10, 2017 Robert Fastiggi 74

A second response to Professor Edward Feser […]

The Dispatch

Sententia communis? Just ‘sententia communis’?

October 26, 2017 Edward N. Peters 11

Many of the assertions hitherto listed by theologians with a surfeit of restraint as merely, say, “sententia communis” might, upon closer investigation in light of […]

The Dispatch

Capital Punishment and the Papal Magisterium: A Response to Dr. Edward Feser

October 24, 2017 Robert Fastiggi 49

The issue is not so much whether prior popes were in error in their scriptural citations. The issue is whether their scriptural appeals qualify as […]

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Today, on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Pope Francis elevated 19 prelates from all over the world to the position of cardinal at a consistory held in St. Peter’s Basilica. Eighteen of […]

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