by Katarina Lee • Surrogacy is constantly in the news, with the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell,[1] the recent conviction of an owner of an American surrogacy company,[2] and the recent birth of Lucy Liu’s son via a gestational surrogate.[3] Like many bioethical issues, surrogacy divides individuals into three distinct groups: (A) those who believe surrogacy…
http://m.vatican.va/content/francescomobile/en/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20160319_amoris-laetitia.html see also: http://www.lastampa.it/2017/09/26/vaticaninsider/eng/documents/doesamoris-laetitia-really-undermine-catholic-moral-teaching-yom5rmEIfGPzsMDlS7o6eP/pagina.html
The Law of Benedict Pope Benedict XVI often ventured into venues historically hostile to the Judeo-Christian tradition. A new collection of essays discusses many of these speeches, probing the relationship of reason to religion, the West, and natural law.
Catholics and Civil Engagement: Can America Learn from the Italian Case? A Neo-Thomistic Natural Justice Perspective Paola Bernardini Journal of Church and State, Volume 59, Issue 2, 1 June 2017, Pages 185–204, https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/csv103 Published: 30 December 2015 Although developed in the context of thirteenth-century Italy, Aquinas’s theory of law might be considered very modern. For…
Araujo discrimination essay Summary: The late Father Araujo’s brilliant essay on discrimination discusses false views of equality used to promote abortion and same-sex marriage in opposition to human dignity. He then articulates the Church’s more insightful understanding that not all discrimination is unjust; there is just discrimination. Treating differently situated things unequally is not unjust,…
