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Unnatural Lawyering: John Finnis’s brief against traditional Catholic teaching on capital punishment

January 4, 2019 Dr. Edward Feser 58

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 […]

Analysis

Pope Francis and Ideology

January 13, 2018 Eduardo Echeverria 34

It is unfortunate that the Holy Father’s overall emphasis on legalism is such that he never addresses the antithesis of legalism, namely, antinomianism, leaving us […]

Analysis

A Critique of Faggioli’s interpretation of early Ratzinger’s view of Scripture, Tradition, and Authority

October 27, 2017 Eduardo Echeverria 21

Massimo Faggioli’s naïve biblicism cannot account for different levels of authoritative Church teachings in Catholicism, with some being foundational, irreformable, and definitive, and others being […]

Analysis

Pope Francis, the Lérinian legacy of Vatican II, and capital punishment

October 15, 2017 Eduardo Echeverria 63

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 […]

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