It is simply impossible to agree on ethics, on how to act, on what is good and what is not, if you disagree about metaphysics or anthropology. And since ethics is unavoidable, so is anthropology.
Toward the end of the 2015 synod of bishops in Rome, delegates were invited to submit possible themes for the next such gathering, set for 2018.
In the popular mind, the Pharisees come across as the quintessential villains in the hero's story.
"The purpose of law is to protect and promote the flourishing of persons."
When Sen. Dianne Feinstein grilled federal circuit court nominee — and now Supreme Court nominee — Amy Coney Barrett three years ago, she fretted that "the dogma lives loudly within you. And that’s of concern."
Why do so many people — not only academics but well-meaning people in general, and in a curious way, so many religious — not see marxism as problematic?
We have a visceral reaction against hypocrisy precisely because we sense its disintegrating power in the person.
Father Rutler is a teacher, not an entertainer, though he often entertains to teach.
An excerpt (the first three pages) of "The Wit and Wisdom of Father George Rutler".