Lex Christianorum

I T IS A MISTAKE in Steven A. Long's view for one committed to the natural law to advocate in the manner of Jacques Maritain a merely pr...

G OD IS THE AUTHOR AND THE PRESERVER of nature. "He rules the world with truth and grace," we sing at Christmas, a world of his c...

A T THE END OF HIS REFLECTIONS on the theory of natural law and its application to the moral, political, and economic problems that confront...

W ORK MUST BE MORAL, and so the moral life governs the life of work. Ultimately, therefore, the "political sphere," whose princip...

L ABOR, WORK, ECONOMICS, the activity of homo economicus, man the worker, are the last areas that Maritain explores in the book we have bee...

F ROM NATURAL RIGHT MARITAIN SEGUES into political rights or what he calls the "rights of the civic person." Maritain, 80. Direc...

J ACQUES MARITAIN PROVIDES us a summary, a charter, as it were, of fundamental natural rights in Section I of Chapter 4 of the book Natural ...

C AESAR IS NOT DIVINE, nor is his modern analogue, the Leviathan State, Hobbes's "mortal God." That is why the State is the s...

T HERE IS A WATERSHED DISTINCTION between natural law and its ontological immutability, on the one hand, and human knowledge of it, on the o...

T O FORGET "THE IMMENSE FIELD of human things which depend upon the variable conditions of social life and on the free initiative of hu...

H UMAN RIGHTS HAVE A FOUNDATION, a foundation that their most rabid advocates, or perhaps better, those ideologues who have captured the con...