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,…
Executive Summary SURROGACY: A NEW WAY TO EXPLOIT WOMEN AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING 1 WHAT IS SURROGACY? Surrogacy, also called gestational surrogacy is a financial transaction in which a woman rents her womb to gestate a baby, who may or may not have genetic ties with her, for which she will be compensated, giving rise to…
This brilliant article by John C. Eastman presents as a tragedy play what is, in fact, a great tragedy. The tragedy is twofold: (1) the failure of U.S. Courts to respect the institution of marriage between a man and a woman–an institution vital to all societies throughout human history–and (2) the complete disregard for the…
Wardle, Lynn D., The Future of the Family: The Social and Legal Impacts of Legalizing Same-Sex Marriage (2015). 13 Ave Maria Law Review 237 (2015); BYU Law Research Paper No. 15-22. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2671999 The article makes clear that the argument of those favoring “same sex marriage” that such homosexual relationships further the common…
