Yes, Tyranny is a Fitting Word
Why should a federal judge expect citizens, lawyers, and officials to obey her orders when she ignores the cases before her, and when she holds facts, law, and reason in such obvious contempt?
Judicial Tyranny UnMoored
Judge Callie Granade ignored the case in front of her, then decided a hypothetical case involving facts that she made up, many of which directly contradicted the undisputed facts in the actual case before her.
When My Father Told Me He Wanted to Be a Woman
When I was nine years old, my father told me he wanted to become a woman. I know I speak for others who have undergone similarly tragic childhoods when I say that I pray the Supreme Court will seriously consider the six amicus briefs submitted by the children of LGBT parents.
The ACLU’s Betrayal of Civil Liberties
The ACLU is trying to deprive other organizations of freedoms that it would insist upon for itself. Their work is not a defense of equality—it is an effort to impose a certain view of morality on the country by law.
Preach from the Rooftops: Evangelium Vitae at Twenty
We cannot address the unraveling of our culture without addressing the consequences of contraception and abortion. We must rightly understand the relationships between love, truth, freedom, and justice.
The Paradox of Title IX: Fighting Sexual Assault on Campus
In the fight against sexual assault on campus, Title IX is not so much powerful as it is pliable, subject to the competency of school officials and the potential for untruthfulness in either the accuser or the accused.
Beyond the Screen: Love in a Time of Social Media
By dropping our digital masks and, in the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, letting ourselves be “tamed,” we become “unique in all the world.” Truly loving another person draws us beyond ourselves.
God, Death, and Capital Punishment
It is philosophically and theologically defensible for Catholics to believe that the death penalty is intrinsically wrong.
Nature vs. Synthetics: What’s at Stake in the Dolce and Gabbana Controversy
Dolce and Gabbana, whether they use the term or not, are strong advocates of natural law.
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Are Not Like Race: Why ENDA is Bad Policy
Sexual orientation and gender identity are conceptually different from race, and beliefs about marriage as the union of man and woman are conceptually and historically different from opposition to interracial marriage. Adapted from testimony delivered on Monday March 16 before the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
Natural Law and the Unity and Truth of Sexual Ethics: A Reply to Gary Gutting
Catholic sexual ethics are as fully reasonable today as they were in the time of St Paul. In fact, the natural law understanding of human fulfillment is inherently intelligible even without a theistic framework.
Federal Court Precedent: A Defense of Judge Roy Moore and the Alabama Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has set a precedent upholding the right of states to define marriage as the union of husband and wife. All federal and state judges—including those in Alabama—are bound by that precedent.
“A Rather Antinomian Christianity”: John Updike’s Religion
John Updike believed in a strange sort of Christianity that rejected the strictures of traditional faith, choosing divine comfort while rejecting divine commands. In other words, it was gospel without law, grace without repentance, the love of God without the holiness of God.
God, Reason, and Our Civilizational Crisis
The way that a culture understands the nature of God shapes its conception of man, reason, and society. Though this presents enormous challenges for the Islamic world, it also has significant implications for the sustainability of Western civilization.
Souls Matter
A materialist philosophy that denies the reality of immaterial features of the world is an impoverished view of nature, including human nature. In any complete analysis of what it means to be a living thing, souls matter. Without souls, there are no living things.
True Paradox: Breaking Down the Barriers to Faith
Christianity hasn’t been considered and found untenable. It’s presumed unreasonable and left unconsidered.
Hearts, Parts, and Minds: The Truth Comes Out
Once I began thinking, reasoning, and examining my life, an extraordinary thing happened: I couldn’t stop. Reason led me to acknowledge natural law, which led me to begin rejecting some of my former ways of thinking and acting. Reason then led me to recognize God.
The Rich Roots and Spoiled Fruits of Liberal Toleration
After decades of efforts to be emancipated from religious influences, the toleration of political liberals is still only an impoverished relative of its classical cousin.
The Shopkeeper’s Dilemma and Cooperation with Evil
A shopkeeper who objects to sex-same weddings but who nevertheless provides services at such weddings generally acts in a morally permissible way if he acts to comply with a validly-enacted law, to preserve the goodwill of his business, and to make a just profit. Nevertheless, a law that in this way coerces a shopkeeper to cooperate with actions he reasonably believes immoral is gravely unjust.
Lincoln’s Best Speech: A Sesquicentennial
Lincoln’s second inaugural address, 150 years old today, is as pertinent as ever. It reminds us that we must resist the poisonous temptation to see those with whom we disagree as bitter enemies even as we vigorously defend the moral truths that ought to guide our public life.
Canada’s Supreme Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide, Leaves Details Up to Parliament
Most Americans are probably not aware that the push to create a right to assisted suicide is an international effort. The Canadian Supreme Court has just ruled that parliament must enact laws allowing assisted suicide.
President Obama’s Dishonest and Unconstitutional De-Authorization
President Obama’s “authorization” request is designed to curtail existing legal authority to wage war on ISIL and to handcuff future presidents in the exercise of their constitutional authority as commander in chief.
