Lex Christianorum

T HE POET HORACE WROTE in one of his poems: Power without wisdom falls by its own weight: The gods themselves advance temperate power: And l...

“T HERE IS NO AUTHORITY except from God, and those that exist have been established by God," says St. Paul to the Romans (Rom. 13:1). ...

T HE BUDDING CHRISTIAN CHURCH found itself in unenviable circumstances, though we may believe it was all providentially determined to be in ...

H OW IS IT THAT SOME LEGITIMATELY AND MORALLY claim to to have and exercise authority over others? And what is the extent, the boundaries b...

T HE NATURAL LAW ALSO PROVIDED the foundation for Pope Leo XIII's encyclical on socialism, Quod apostolici munerus which was issued in 1...

THE COMMON GOOD is the "first and foremost" ( primo et principaliter ) ordering which underlies law. We explored this in yesterday...