By now, most of the Catholic internet world has heard about the minor blow up concerning Rev. James Martin, SJ and his tweet, which claimed that “Pete Buttigieg is married,” itself a response to a Catholic League article stating that “It is true that Buttigieg is legally married, but that is a legal fiction.”
Continue reading ““Legal Marriage” and Legal Positivism”Uncommon Confusion: The New Natural Law Theory’s Confusion of Predication and Causality Destroys the Natural Order
The following lecture was delivered to the faculty of Thomas Aquinas College in the fall of 2020.
When Aquinas presents his understanding of the natural law, he unifies it under a single precept, “Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be shunned.”[1] This precept forms the basis for every other natural law precept—which is why it is a unifying principle for the natural law as a whole[2]—because it expresses the first principle of any action whatsoever. We do not commit a fully human act except insofar as an act seems to be good or to be aimed at a good (or away from its opposite). The precept is universal; it grounds any and every pursuit of goods. But there is a question: What, precisely, is meant by “good” in this precept?
Continue reading “Uncommon Confusion: The New Natural Law Theory’s Confusion of Predication and Causality Destroys the Natural Order”New Editor of The Josias
After working as joint editors of The Josias for several years, Joel Augustine and Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. are stepping down for practical reasons. They hope to continue contributing to The Josias in other ways as their time permits.
We are pleased to announce that the new editor of The Josias is Urban Hannon, who has been involved with The Josias since its inception in 2014. Under Hannon’s editorship the Josias will continue to articulate the theoretical basis for an authentically Catholic political stance.