Benedict XVI
On Benedict, Francis, and Sin
Cindy explains how we got to the mess we find ourselves in, how Benedict explained it, and what the solution to our mess really is.
From Under the Rubble…The Prophet, the President, and the Pope
A critique of the president by a well-known jurist appeared recently in the American Spectator: A man whose self-absorption is legendary, if not pathological… If the head of the most corrupt and malign administration in our history is suffered to remain in office, however crippled, it will be a clear sign that we have turned…
Catholic Social Teaching
(Ed. note. In our second installment of “teasers” for Professor Rice’s forthcoming book, Right or Wrong? from St. Augustine’s Press, we thought his thumbnail sketch on Catholic Social Teaching would be in order. It is timely as it comes on the heels of The Distributist Review‘s publication of John DeJak’s article on Arthur Hippler’s book Citizens…
The Natural Law
THE NATURAL LAW Charles E. Rice Professor Emeritus, Notre Dame Law School Address, Canon Law Conference Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe LaCrosse, Wisconsin August 9, 2011 What is the natural law and why do we need it? The “September Pope,” John Paul I, at his general audience on September 6, 1978, gave us a…
The Supreme Court and the Natural Law
In a recent commentary, Mr. John DeJak makes a clarion call to moor applied law to natural law via metaphysics. A clarion call it should be since applied constitutional law has in my view never been tethered to the natural law except by the narrowest of strands. In fact, the words “natural law” have not…