The Gospel and the Natural Law
by Andrew T. WalkerThe Bible insists that our knowledge of the moral law—and our violation of it—renders us guilty before God. Continue Reading »
Why We Are Where We Are
by George Weigel“The liberal secularized state lives on conditions that it cannot guarantee itself.” Continue Reading »
Does Natural Law Need Theology?
by David NovakUntil quite recently, natural law thinking had been a Catholic preserve. My interest in it was awakened during my days as a Jewish undergraduate at the University of Chicago, by the great Leo Strauss—himself a serious, though nonobservant, Jew. When I told Strauss of my interest in natural . . . . Continue Reading »
For Love of God and of Us
by R. J. MatavaGermain Gabriel Grisez, a man of the Church and one of the greatest thinkers of our age, passed away on February 1. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousR. R. Reno is sympathetic to nationalism because he sees it as a reaction against disenchantment (“Return of the Strong Gods,” May). While I agree that “the banishment of love from our politics is creating the populism that presently troubles us,” it doesn’t strike me that this populism . . . . Continue Reading »
Living Communally in God's Good Creation
by David T. KoyzisThe Benedict Option: Whatever we label it, it is something to which all Christians everywhere are called. Continue Reading »
Self-Evident, Not Obvious
by Gilbert MeilaenderC. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Lawby justin buckley dyer and micah j. watsoncambridge, 170 pages, $44.99 Of the making of books about C. S. Lewis there is no end. Although interest in his thought receded somewhat in the decade or so after his death in 1963, it gradually recovered, has grown . . . . Continue Reading »
The Moral Turn
by Hadley ArkesFor some conservatives, bracing themselves on the night of the election, the evening offered nothing less than a miracle unfolding. But that sense of things was even more pronounced for young lawyers defending religious plaintiffs in the courts, and for the small band of conservatives on the Supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Aquinas and the Late Justice Scalia: A Response to Fr. Giambrone
by Peter Karl KoritanskyJust weeks after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, Fr. Anthony Giambrone, O.P. published an article in America Magazine warning that Catholics inclined to celebrate the life and service of the late Supreme Court justice should not be so inclined to celebrate his judicial philosophy. Fr. . . . . Continue Reading »
Inescapably Natural
by Hadley ArkesJustice Oliver Wendell Holmes gave voice to the “modern” project in law: It would be a gain, he said, “if every word of moral significance could be banished from the law altogether, and other words adopted which should convey legal ideas uncolored by anything outside the law.” The law would . . . . Continue Reading »
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