As far as I am concerned, we should take the declinist view at its word and ignore it altogether. After all, declinism is nothing particularly new or original when one considers the range of declinist critiques, from Burke to Fukuyama, and it allies itself too easily to ideology.

A Dolce & Gabbana fashion show might not be the first place you’d look to see whether a pope’s message has taken root, but maybe it should be.

The insights of the Western tradition can influence prudential decisions. They can orient our enterprise toward public life without leaving behind the deeper concerns.

From Ethika Politika, our friends, and around the web.

Women set the standard by which men are to treat them. It is only through becoming fully present in our seasons of loneness and solitude will we discover our true self.

The discussion that Pope Francis has encouraged of the Church’s response to poverty and human need has not affected how we talk about our Catholic schools.

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While human law cannot make any of its citizens virtuous and should not endeavor to try, it does advance the common good by mandating the virtue necessary for peaceful social behavior: Justice, giving and doing unto others what is due to them.