Columns
Catholics and Today’s Thought
For the sake of her mission, the Church needs to re-emphasize her opposition to basic aspects of today’s world. But how far should that go? […]
Natural law
Essay
Martin Luther’s flawed understanding of natural law: A response to Dr. Korey D. Maas
Voluntarism denies the Catholic teaching that logos constitutes—rather than delimits—God’s nature, and Luther was a volunarist. […]
Columns
Harassment, social progress, and the Church
Current thought intentionally excludes common-sense understandings of how things are, especially with regard to sex and the sexes. […]
The Dispatch
Is the ‘Pauline Privilege’ an exception to Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage?
Answering that question requires clarity on some basic marriage concepts and terms. […]
Features
Cardinal Brandmüller reflects on Luther, “Amoris laetitia”, the Dubia, and current situation
An interview with the Church historian and theologian Walter Cardinal Brandmüller conducted by Armin Schwibach of kath.net. […]
Features
Natural law outside Catholicism? Regime-agnosticism and agnostic regimes
The question at hand is: what do we make of America’s schizophrenic natural law pedigree, rejecting but needing Catholic ideas? (And John Locke, history’s most […]
Features
Hot Air vs. Capital Punishment: A Reply to Paul Griffiths and David Bentley Hart
Griffiths’ review in First Things of By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed is rich in condescension, high in dudgeon, and largely devoid of substantive […]
The Dispatch
Mark Levin’s new book highlights natural law vs. secular progressivism
Take in something lasting and satisfying this summer. Take a look at Mark Levin’s new book, Rediscovering Americanism and the Tyranny of Progressivism. The latter half of the title will draw eyes right away. Glancing […]
Sojourns with Schall
The Subjective Church
I. In all institutions we find a difference between what the constitutions or authorized descriptions define them to be and what they turn out to be in practice. We hear of two constitutions—one “written” and […]