Catholicism and the American Founding
Natural Law, common law, Natural Rights, and localism—all so dear to the Founding—existed in 1776, simply put, because of the Catholic Church. […]
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by bcadmin | Jul 3, 2021 | Aquinas, Augustine, Bellarmine, Calvinists, Catholicism, Charles Carroll, Edmund Burke, Franciscans, Jesuits, John Carroll, Magna Carta, Mayflower Compact, News, Protestantism, Puritans, Quebec Bill, The Dispatch | 0 |
Natural Law, common law, Natural Rights, and localism—all so dear to the Founding—existed in 1776, simply put, because of the Catholic Church. […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 18, 2021 | 2021, Boswell and Johnson and the Church, Boswell’s Life of Johnson, Columns, David Hume, Edmund Burke, Fr. James V. Schall, Hadley Arkes, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, News, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Sheridan, Sir Joshua Reynolds, The Catholic Thing, Voltaire | 0 |
Hadley Arkes relates a discussion between Johnson and Boswell: Without free will, there may be neither evil nor love and creative imagination.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 31, 2021 | 2021, Anthony Esolen, bodily autonomy, Columns, cooperation with evil, Edmund Burke, Gibbeting the carcass, News, rainbow flag, Sexual Revolution, Take Down the Flag, The Catholic Thing, totalitarian ideologies of sex, Vatican ruling same-sex blessing | 0 |
Anthony Esolen: It’s not necessary to point at individuals, but that “rainbow” flag, which stands for the whole sexual revolution, must go.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | 2021, Columns, Donald Trump, Edmund Burke, Hadley Arkes, Joe Biden, loss of Senate majority, News, President Trump.Trump Administration, pro-life cause, The Catholic Thing, Thoughts on a Late Administration | 0 |
Hadley Arkes: Trump came apart because he was consumed by his own anger and grievance. As a result, much good achievement will now be lost.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 29, 2020 | 2020, Blessed Virgin, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Edmund Burke, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ, Joseph Wood, News, The Catholic Thing, The Other Holy Family, Winston Churchill | 0 |
Joseph Wood: We are members of earth families but also of another holy family, the one that requires our decision in faith for eternity.
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Fr. Paul D. Scalia: May we revere the best of our nation’s founding and principles – but also revere the eternal truths to judge rightly here and now.
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