https://scholarship.law.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=scholar William J. Wagner et al., Pope Benedict XVI and the Desideratum of a Natural Law: Three Views, 3 J. L. PHIL. & CULTURE 63 (2009)
http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/messages/peace/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20071208_xli-world-day-peace.html THE HUMAN FAMILY, A COMMUNITY OF PEACE 1. At the beginning of a New Year, I wish to send my fervent good wishes for peace, together with a heartfelt message of hope to men and women throughout the world. I do so by offering for our common reflection the theme which I have placed…
I am very pleased to be participating in this conference on the legacy of Pope John Paul II. Although I am speaking on John Paul II’s profound impact on the Church’s teaching on the morality of capital punishment, I would like to begin with a few comments about John Patti II’s larger legacy and, in…
Eyster, James Parry, Pope John Paul II and Immigration Law and Policy (2007). Ave Maria Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 1, p. 85, 2007 . Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1758057 INTRODUCTION The immigration debate in the United States and in other developed countries has proved vitriolic and divisive, one view espousing limited immigration based on a…
His Holiness Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła, reigned 1978 to 2005) was not a jurist-pope in the tradition of, for example, Pope Gregory IX, who directed St. Raymond of Peñafort in the production of the Liber Extra, also called Decretales (1). St. Raymond’s work served as a cornerstone of canon law until the twentieth…
