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August 2015

August 06, 2015

Throwing Shade at Capitalism

Why Pope Francis says the economy should not be a mechanism for accumulating goods, but...

March 2015

March 10, 2015

What the Church Allows Isn’t Necessarily Right

Debates among Catholics about moral issues too often rely on a cursory analysis of Magisterial...

February 2015

February 24, 2015

Destroying ObamaCare, Whatever the Consequences

Former Senator Phil Gramm is clear about whom he thinks are the disadvantaged: young, healthy...

February 24, 2015

Michael Novak, Still Defending the Iraq War

If you launch into a moral defense of a war without reckoning with the dead,...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Radical Dependency: A Newborn’s and Our Own

What if, instead of glorifying the autonomous individual and demeaning the poor and dependent, we...

January 05, 2015

Downplaying the Pope’s Upcoming Encyclical on the Environment

Robert George says that Pope Francis doesn't know whether climate change is anthropogenic, presenting the...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Deriving Morals, Laws, and Policy Ideas from the Bible

The conflict of interpretations is hardly unique to the Bible or to religion. People simply...

October 2014

October 30, 2014

How Evolution Challenges the Basis of Christian Ethics

If human nature can vary and evolve, then the basis of the good can vary...