Lex Christianorum

I N OUR LAST POSTING, we discussed the Stoic concept of duty--a notion encapsulated in Greek in the word καθῆκον, kathēkon , pl., καθήκοντα...

I N OUR LAST POSTING, we noted how the Stoics branded as "indifferent" or pre-moral a number of goods which Plato, but particula...

M ARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, "Tully" as he is known to his English-speaking friends, was Republican Rome's great advocate of the ph...

Girolamo Zanchi ZANCHI CONCLUDES HIS TREATMENT on the relationship between human or political law and the natural law by addressing the iss...

1.2. The Graeco-Roman sources of the natural law 18. The idea that a natural right exists prior to any positive legal laws is already to be ...

ST. THOMAS ADDRESSES the definition of law in Question 90 of his so-called “Treatise on Law” (which is actually part of his Summa Theologica...

WHEN HE STATED in his compilation of the Saxon laws that "God is himself law" (see prior post), Eike von Repgow was referring to t...

There are 3,706 citations or quotations in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Of these, all but one are citations to or quotations from ...