Our vocation as Christians is to grow in the virtues that are suited to our personal vocation, which provides each of us a particular set of virtues to cultivate.

Audra Nakas, Alexandra DeSanctis, and Timothy Kirchoff join Ethika Politika for 2015. We’re eager to welcome them and for our readers to get to know them more in the days ahead.

A life of virtue is not a solitary endeavor. And it is more than an intellectual exercise. It requires a relationship with God, who is a communion of persons.

I sometimes wonder if the “priesthood question” doesn’t veil a lingering clericalism.

If a transgender person were truly not simply an individual of one sex lacking something but somehow an amalgamation of two sexes, then the question of ontology becomes very complicated.

Charlie Camosy’s Beyond the Abortion Wars is an accessible but challenging and provocative book that everyone with an interest in abortion ought to read.

Damian’s essay does little if anything to establish that DNA-based anomalies cause or contribute to transgenderism, or what the right treatments might be.

Christopher Damian’s essay The Absurdity of Non-Transgenderism deserves a short word of comment.