Fr. Regis Scanlon, O.F.M. Cap
Pope Francis will meet on February 21, 2019 with the bishops’
conferences of the world on protecting minors from clergy sexual abuse.
But what is the problem they will be addressing? Is the problem
pedophilia, homosexuality, or rogue clericalism, or all of the above?
Father Hans Zollner, a member of the committee organizing this meeting
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John P. McCarthy
January 21, 2019 will be the one hundredth anniversary of the founding
of Dáil Eireann, the legislature of an independent Irish state. That
body consisted of members of the majority elected from Ireland in the
December 1918 national election to the British parliament. That event
was an act of secession by a legally elected group […]
John Paul Meenan
It may seem a bit odd to speak of modesty when the weather outside is
frightful—at least roundabout where I live in rural Ontario. But modesty
is not just an outdoors virtue, as a trip anywhere, from the grocery
store to the office staff party to the local yoga class, will
demonstrate. My recent discovery […]
Edvard Lorkovic
Early in Plato’s Republic, Socrates debates a sophist, a teacher of
rhetoric, named Thrasymachus, about the nature and worth of justice.
Thrasymachus’s position, no more unknown to us today than it was in
Socrates’s and Plato’s day, is that justice is the advantage of the
stronger. On this view, justice simply names the rules set […]
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