Parva Commentaria
Concise perspectives from Ethika Politika editors and contributors
We’re reminded by recent events that we might never be entirely safe. But we must ask, is safe what we ought to be at all?
As arguments kick off in the Supreme Court’s review of Prop 8, one thing is not at stake: the type of stability and certainty that many believe legal same-sex marriage will bring about.
St. Patrick’s day is not just a day that anyone can be Irish. It is a day to remember a saint who set an example of solidarity and imitate it in our communities.
It would be wrong to speculate wildly about Pope Francis’s personality, pastoral zeal, or theological prowess. What’s clear from experience, though, is that he’s above all a man for others.
The papal interregnum shows us that we’re still willing to consider the legitimacy of an absolute authority—and to believe that such a ruler might, against all odds, turn out even to love us.
Our popular perspectives on law fail to reach its essence. As St. Thomas Aquinas suggests, law concerns and communicates, above all, nothing less than reality itself.
What if we viewed ourselves as yeast in the dough of the world and spiritual disciplines as yeast in the dough of our lives? How might such a changed way of life affect our culture for the common good?
Recent controversy from the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life points to the role of moral philosophy and theology—not science—in determining what counts as pregnancy.
The end of awards seasons signals the end of my Les Mis obsession, at least for a while. But before that, a few reasons why the film instructs us in an Aristotelian-Thomistic reverence for law, and attitude that we would do well to rediscover.
While most people are probably not called to the monastic life, we are all certainly called to be more monk-like.
