Lex Christianorum

T HERE IS AN ORDER OF JUSTICE, and there is an order of mercy. St. Thomas speaks of an order of justice and an order of mercy in God,* both ...

J OHN PAUL II'S ENCYCLICAL Evangelium vitae raised significant consternation among Catholics on the matter of the death penalty. To the...

I N LOOKING AT THE ISSUE OF THE DEATH PENALTY, we typically focus on the justice or injustice of it. As we have reviewed in our prior posti...

I N PRIOR POSTS ON THIS SUBJECT, we have discussed how the Church Fathers--pre-Constantine and post-Constantine, including the redoubtable S...

I T IS INCONCEIVABLE THAT AN OFFICIAL Catechism of the Catholic Church, especially one geared toward the instruction of priests, would conta...

G RATIAN'S INFLUENCE IN THE LIFE of the Church cannot be underestimated. His Decretum or Concordia discordantium canonum , a massive pe...

T HE STATEMENT OF POPE INNOCENT III on capital punishment we addressed in our last post is probably the most significant Papal pronouncement...