Prudentia Politica: If Tim Kaine Wins, the Catholic Church Loses

If Tim Kaine Wins, the Catholic Church Loses
by Doug Mainwaring on October 17th, 2016

Many high-profile Catholics like Tim Kaine publicly dissent from Catholic teaching and promote offenses against human dignity. When their actions go unrebuked by Church leaders, it harms both the Church as a whole and the faith of individual Catholics.

No, We Should Not Legalize Recreational Marijuana Use
by Tim Bradley on October 18th, 2016

Legalizing recreational marijuana use would hurt not only those who smoke—it also hurts children and society as a whole. As a country, if we encourage and profit from this vice, we will be undermining the very foundations of our government.

The Future of Pro-Life Legislation and Litigation
by Gerard V. Bradley on October 18th, 2016

In her landmark 1971 paper, Judith Jarvis Thomson tried to defend abortion by appeal to norms of justification consistently applicable in a range of other cases. By contrast, the courts in and after Roe and Casey have treated the right to abortion as an unquestionable legal principle. This inverted approach is doomed to fail as it continues to reveal the anomalous character of abortion rights.

Better to Give than to Receive: Catholicism and the Enlightenment
by R.J. Snell on October 20th, 2016

In science and philosophy, politics and society, the Enlightenment and the Faith could and did bring mutual intelligibility to each other, showing no intrinsic incompatibility—“faith cannot collide with enlightened reason,” a new book reminds us, for truth cannot contradict truth.