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Feb 2021
Last Sunday I began writing about the gravity of the issues that divide our nation right now. I wrote about abortion and the LGBT alphabet soup, pointing out that these deal with fundamental differences in how we view human life and indeed all of reality, differences that were never really meant to be resolved by the political process. The American political process, which involves the politics of compromise, presumes an overall consensus about fundamental principles, while compromises regarding means are worked out through the political process. The differences about abortion and LGBT,......
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January 29, 2021
What are the real sources of division? (Part I)
Last Sunday, reflecting on the events that took place in Washington, D.C. on January 6 I observed that they have led to a propaganda of ‘unity’, but that the unity being called for amounts to...
January 22, 2021
January 6, 2021 – The Propaganda Narrative and its Consequences
Last week I began presenting some personal reflections on the historic events of January 6, 2021. Some people might be surprised because I failed to condemn ‘rioting’. Actually, I did not say anything about the...
January 15, 2021
January 6, 2021 – Whose Benefit?
Over the course of the past year and more I have been writing a series of reflections on ‘social justice’ as the right order of human society. Nevertheless, in view of the events of historic...
January 08, 2021
Inadequate Conceptions of the Common Good
Last Sunday, I wrote began writing about the common good, a good in which each member of the community shares, each in his own way, and which unites the members of the community. The common...
January 01, 2021
The Common Good, Part I
Last year, I left off my treatment of the role of government in respect to social justice (the right order of human society) by affirming that “The first role of government then is to provide...
December 25, 2020
Book Recommendations
At the end of each year, I have had the custom of making book recommendations for the following year. This year, I am focusing on history and biography. History is important. Good history gives us...
December 11, 2020
Caesar and The Apostolic Authority of the Church (Part II)
In my last essay, I proposed that the apostolic authority of the Catholic Church, which comes directly from Christ and is not subject to any earthly human authority, teaches the truth that serves as the...
December 04, 2020
Caesar and The Apostolic Authority of the Church (Part I)
In my essay series on social justice, I began writing about the role of government in establishing and maintaining social justice. My point, so far, has been that just government needs to be rooted in...
November 27, 2020
The basics of human experience and divine revelation
Last week, starting from the need for truth to serve as the foundation for just government, I went on to elaborate the need for some form of divine revelation to manifest that truth and make...