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by bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Featured, Natural Law, News, Philosophy, St. Thomas Aquinas | 0 |
Despite the fundamental importance of the natural law, it is often neglected, shunned, or misunderstood. We have a certain connaturality with the natural law so that a person can live and profit by it without having to philosophize. Nonetheless, it is important to shed light on the natural law, especially for those for whom it […]
by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | 2022, Brad Miner, Clarence Thomas, Columns, David Carlin, David Carlin's "In Search of True Human Rights", Hadley Arkes, Natural Law, News, Ninth Amendment, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Jefferson | 0 |
I suppose people have believed from time immemorial that there are certain non-man-made rights of some kind. In the old…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 24, 2022 | 2022, Abortion, Aquinas, Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, Cardinal Mueller on Questions about Rights, Columns, cuius regio eius religio, De anima by Aristotle, Gaudium et spes, George Orwell, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, judicial decisions about the unborn and weak, Kath.Net, Lothar C. Rilinger, Matić Report, Natural Law, News, Nietzsche, René Descartes, Robert Royal, Seneca, Summa Theologiae, The Catholic Thing, Wolfgang Huber | 0 |
Cardinal Mueller on the rise of legal philosophies that reduce human beings, the unborn especially, to mere pawns in an Orwellian game.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 3, 2021 | 2021, Catholic Church, Catholic teaching, Catholicism, Columns, David Carlin, higher morality, Natural Law, News, St. Thomas Aquinas, Stoicism, Stoics, Summa Theologiae (Ia-IIae 90-208), The Catholic Thing, Two Moralities | 0 |
David Carlin: Natural law is good, as far as it goes, but Christian morality clarifies that natural law does not go nearly far enough.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | Already/Not Yet, Featured, Independence Day, Independent streak, Lord’s Day Mass, Mosaic Law, Natural Law, News, obligation, Sunday obligation | 0 |
Fresh off celebrating Independence Day, I’m reminded of an essential truth about Americans: We don’t like being told what to do.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 11, 2021 | 2021, Acts 15:29, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Charlotte attorney Mike Kerrigan, Columns, false gods of seduction corruption abortion mutilation, God, Jesus Christ, Michael Pakaluk, Michael Pakaluk's "On Sacrifice", Natural Law, News, Rom 12:1, Spe Salvi, St. John Henry Newman, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Michael Pakaluk: Ending innocence (through seduction, corruption, abortion, mutilation) is service to false gods demanding victims and blood.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2021 | 2021, Abortion, anti-slavery, Battle of Gettysburg, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Declaration of Independence self-evident truths, Emancipation, General Lee’s army, General Meade, Hadley Arkes, infanticide, Natural Law, News, On Miners and Sappers, President Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Hadley Arkes: We’ve departed from America’s founding natural-law principles to a regime with no standard of truth outside the positive law.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 6, 2021 | 2021, Abortion, and most notably, Catholic college, Christian marriage, Columns, Hadley Arkes, Hadley Arkes: What is most distinct to human nature is reasoning, human nature, Immanuel Kant, Natural Law, News, reasoning over matters of right and wrong., Same-sex "Marriage", The Catholic Thing, Visit to a Familiar Now Distant Place, ” incest | 0 |
Hadley Arkes: What is most distinct to human nature is reasoning, and most notably, reasoning over matters of right and wrong.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 15, 2021 | 2021, Abortion, Aquinas, Brad Miner, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Jesus Christ, Natural Law, News, President Biden, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, The Catholic Thing, “Practicing” Catholics | 0 |
Brad Miner: Liberal Catholic politicians assert that their religious views mustn’t interfere in executive or legislative programs is idiotic.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 1, 2020 | 2020, America on Trial, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Hadley Arkes, Natural Law, News, Reason Revelation and the American Regime, Richard Hooker, Robert Reilly, St. Robert Bellarmine, The Catholic Thing, Thomas Jefferson | 0 |
Hadley Arkes: The American Founding was ultimately Catholic because it invoked natural law and natural rights to justify the cause of liberty.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2020 | Cathars, Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, government, Jesus Christ, Marcionites, Natural Law, News, Pope Francis, secularism, simone weil, St. John XXIII, St. Paul | 0 |
God’s unity and simplicity mean that for Him truth, justice, and power are all the same. He isn’t conflicted, doesn’t do half-measures, and never loses. The evident reality of falsehood and injustice makes that hard […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 5, 2020 | 2020, automony, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Hadley Arkes, John Stuart Mill's ON LIBERTY, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Natural Law, News, Scot philosopher Thomas Reid, The Catholic Thing, When Cardinal Lustiger Brought the News | 0 |
Hadley Arkes on the problem of a libertarianism that accepts no moral truths and, therefore, permits abortion. Why not slavery too?
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