Author’s Note to the reader: This essay belongs to a conversation that includes Roberto de Mattei’s Tu es Petrus: True Devotion to the Chair of Peter, my own The Conversion of the Papacy and the […]
Questions about authority have been long debated and have been at heart of much conflict and strife throughout history, in both secular and religious contexts. Who has the authority in a given situation? How can […]
John Finnis is a prominent Catholic law professor and chief apostle of the “new natural law theory” (NNLT) invented by the late Germain Grisez in the 1960s. At Public Discourse, Finnis and I have been […]
I regard the liceity of the death penalty as having been established with infallible certitude by the Church’s ordinary magisterium. […]
Bishops might consider making these six affirmations about Blessed Paul VI’s encyclical, in one form or another. […]
Revered and Reviled squarely faces the problem that Vatican I presents, and has always presented about papal primacy. […]
Cultural radicalism rejects tradition, and therefore rejects everything except immediate impressions, abstract ideology, and naked will. That’s no way to build anything solid, let alone […]
“We are basically champions of Catholic teaching,” says the radio host and head of Ave Maria Radio. “We’re an echo chamber for the Magisterium. You’re […]
Sometimes “religious obsequium” is translated “religious assent,” at other times “religious submission,” and at other times “religious respect”. What exactly are we being asked to […]
I am immensely glad that canon law is here, but the fact that we are lately having to rely on law almost exclusively to defend crucial Church teachings is a sign […]
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