Natural Law

Lessons of Natural Law in Gaza

10/12/2023 at 3:09 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Michael Pakaluk, Catholic Thing, October 12, 2023 I think about Shani Louk and pray for her, the 22-year-old German-Israeli tattoo artist and globe-trotting pacifist, who was kidnapped by Hamas from the Tribe of Nova rave festival in the Negev Desert. The video has gone viral (I have... read more

The Effort to Redefine ‘Freedom’ Will Fail

02/14/2022 at 3:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
By  Noah Rothman, Commentary,February 14, 2022 You can say one thing for sure about the large-scale anti-vaccination mandate protests that have all but paralyzed Ontario, Canada for over a week: They confirmed your political priors. Many saw these demonstrations as a cipher for their... read more

When Rights Are Wrong

05/06/2021 at 2:53 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Donald Demarco, Crisis, April 30, 2021 There are few topics that are of greater importance than “rights.” At the same time, the topic of rights has been egregiously misunderstood and fraudulently represented. What are rights? Are they the exclusive domain of human beings? What is... read more

Young People Crave Truth That Only Traditional Catholicism Can Deliver

11/23/2020 at 9:55 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Ben Hachten, OnePeterFive OnePeterFive November 19, 2020 As I was reading the comments (I know, never do that) of my recent article in The American Conservative, It’s Not Your Father’s GOP, several commenters opined that a socially conservative political movement will never play with the... read more

Disappointment, outrage over papal document on the Amazon

02/15/2020 at 4:21 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Heidi Schlumpf, National Catholic Reporter, February 12, 2020 Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation on the Amazon disappointed those hoping for an opening of clerical roles to married men and women, with many noting that the pope failed to extend his prophetic voice about environmental... read more

No, Cardinal Marx, the Church Cannot Bless Same-Sex Couples

01/07/2020 at 4:47 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
No, Cardinal Marx, the Church Cannot Bless Same-Sex Couples By Eduardo J. Echeverria, December 30, 2019 Once again, the German archbishop, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, responded positively to the question, “What do you do when a homosexual couple asks you for an episcopal blessing.”  He... read more

Popes Francis Again Confronts Gender Ideology

07/17/2019 at 11:21 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Paul Kengor, Crisis, July 17, 2017 “The Vatican’s new document on gender will be used to oppress and harm LGBT people. It perpetuates false stereotypes that encourage hatred, bigotry, and violence.” That statement from New Ways Ministry was tweeted by Fr. James Martin in reaction... read more

A comment on a cardinal’s tweet re capital punishment

06/17/2019 at 4:40 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Edward Peters, JD, JDC, In the Light of the Law Blog, June 17, 2019 Earlier today Cdl. Dolan of New York tweeted: “With the clear and cogent clarification of the successor of St. Peter, there now exists no loophole to morally justify capital punishment.” The supposedly clear and... read more

Chaput: ‘Rebuild a Christian society without divided loyalties’

04/20/2019 at 4:16 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Rochester, Minn., Apr 12, 2019 / 05:00 pm (CNA).- The once Christian culture of the West has forgotten its roots, Archbishop Charles Chaput said Friday, warning that basic principles of human dignity and freedom are now at risk. The leader of the Philadelphia archdiocese told an April... read more
Cardinal Robert Sarah

‘As a bishop, it is my duty to warn the West’: An interview with Cardinal Sarah

04/09/2019 at 9:24 AM By Kevin Edward White
The Vatican cardinal discusses his hard-hitting new book in this exclusive interview with La Nef Cardinal Robert Sarah, Catholic Herald (US), April 5, 2019 Cardinal Robert Sarah is publishing the third of his book-length interviews with Nicolas Diat: The Day is Far Spent. An unflinching... read more

Elizabeth Anscombe’s Philosophy of the Human Person

03/18/2019 at 9:45 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Michael Wee, March 17, 2019 Elizabeth Anscombe’s philosophical investigation of man’s spiritual nature offers a much-needed antidote to the materialism of our times. For Anscombe, to search for the spiritual is not to look somewhere obscure, but to look at the everyday facts of human... read more

Confronting the Bullies

01/16/2019 at 9:43 AM By Kevin Edward White

Partisan Politics Preventing Pastoral Practice

02/01/2018 at 10:11 AM By Kevin Edward White

A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment

08/18/2017 at 3:31 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Cardinal Caffarra Among Signatories of Declaration Upholding Church’s Teaching on Marriage

09/28/2016 at 6:47 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

The Ten Commandments and Natural Law

09/26/2016 at 9:43 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

The silence of the shepherds on homosexuality: An interview with Robert Reilly

09/06/2016 at 5:04 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

“Progressives” and Religious Liberty

04/15/2016 at 9:59 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Of Saint Thomas More – and Us

04/12/2016 at 9:04 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

What to Look for in a Supreme Court Justice

04/09/2016 at 8:27 PM By Mary Anne Hackett