This rubbish has no legal or judicial or administrative force in the real world where we all live. Like last summer’s vacuous, vapid, and vacant SCOTUS decision, these so-called guidelines were a dead letter upon issuance. Like I said about…
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The Guidelines are Void
Tagged with: human nature, line in the sand, natural law, orwellian, Prayer, reason, tyranny, western civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Western Civilization
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Western Civilization
The Decision is Void
Just so that we are all clear with respect to the SCOTUS ruling yesterday: the decision is contrary to reason, contrary to the laws of men throughout history, and contrary to the law of God. Consequently the decision is entirely…
Tagged with: civilization, constitution, moral law, natural law, null decision, scotus
Posted in America, Charity, Creation, Justice, Natural Law, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Posted in America, Charity, Creation, Justice, Natural Law, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
While I am on the subject
Here is a quotation from CS Lewis that I think relates well to my previous post. If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage…
Tagged with: Aquinas, natural law
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Catechism, Natural Law
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Catechism, Natural Law
Reply to a Reader
Recently a gentleman left a couple comments in response to a post here, and I don’t think I did justice to his remarks. In this post I would like to rectify that situation. He begins with this: Unfortunately, it seems…
Tagged with: Aquinas, natural law, summa contra gentiles, summa theologiae
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Natural Law, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Philosophy, Aquinas - Theology, Natural Law, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologiae
Musings on Nature
There are two ways in which living creatures have powers for preservation: preservation of self, and preservation of their kind or species. Just as suicide is a moral evil (destruction of self is contrary to nature), in the same way…
Tagged with: common good, individualism, natural law, nature, socialism, solidarity, subsidiarity
Posted in Aquinas - Theology, Aristotle, Natural Law
Posted in Aquinas - Theology, Aristotle, Natural Law
Ideas have consequences
Where do our human rights come from? According to the Declaration of Independence, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these…
Tagged with: natural law, natural rights
Posted in America, Rerum Novarum, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Posted in America, Rerum Novarum, Veritatis Splendor, Western Civilization
Puppetry?
The Catechism has this to say about Providence and the natural powers of the creatures that God has made: God has not willed to reserve to himself all exercise of power. He entrusts to every creature the functions it is…
Tagged with: free will, natural law, predestination, sin
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Theology, Augustine, Calvinism, Free Will, Natural Law, Sin
Posted in Apologetics, Aquinas - Theology, Augustine, Calvinism, Free Will, Natural Law, Sin
Inhumanity – Caritatis in Veritate post 10
I expect that this will be my last post in my little series drawing from Pope Benedict’s final encyclical, Caritatis in Veritate. How can we be surprised by the indifference shown towards situations of human degradation, when such indifference extends…
Tagged with: benedict xvi, natural law, positivism, social justice
Posted in Benedict XVI, Charity, Natural Law, Rerum Novarum
Posted in Benedict XVI, Charity, Natural Law, Rerum Novarum
Overheard at Mass
During the homily today our pastor quoted the following from the majority opinion of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Lawrence v. Texas: At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of…
Object lesson
An advocate of the prenatal slaughter of children – sorry, abortion supporter – is reported to have said this (I am not making this up): Pregnancy is not natural. <cough> This from a woman who calls herself Catholic (<cough> again).…
Tagged with: abortion, evil, insanity denies reality, natural law
Posted in Etc, Fides et Ratio, Natural Law, Veritatis Splendor
Posted in Etc, Fides et Ratio, Natural Law, Veritatis Splendor
