Columnist: Edward Feser
A Catholic Defense of Enforcing Immigration Laws
The Trump administration’s ongoing efforts to enforce U.S. immigration laws have been controversial, not least in Catholic circles. On one hand, Vice President J. D. Vance has defended the administration’s ...
What Is A “Couple”?
In my recent article on the controversy over Fiducia Supplicans, I noted three problems with the document’s qualified permission of blessings for “couples” of a same-sex or other “irregular” kind. ...
Thomas Aquinas on Bad Prelates
What attitude should a Catholic take toward cruel and arbitrary prelates – for example, those who endlessly stir up division and then shamelessly blame the division on those who note ...
Aquinas’ Advice for Dealing with Bad Bishops
What attitude should a Catholic take toward cruel and arbitrary prelates – for example, those who endlessly stir up division and then shamelessly blame the division on those who note ...
Do Not Abandon Your Mother In Her Time Of Need
In Catholic theology, the Church is not to be identified with a mere aggregate of her members, not even those members who happen to hold ecclesiastical office at any particular ...
Against Candy-Ass Christianity
The Mr. Rogers biopic, with Tom Hanks in the starring role, comes out this week and has been getting a lot of positive attention – in some cases, embarrassingly rapturous ...
Edward Feser: Why Archbishop Viganò is Almost Certainly Telling the Truth
There are five considerations that seem to me to make it very likely that Archbishop Viganò’s testimony is truthful. To be sure, given how numerous and detailed are the claims he makes, it ...