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- Mercy written into a rule is no longer mercy
Against, with Nikos's oikonomia and something from my own church. Anglican practice has a saying about private confession: all may, none must, some should. The rule guarantees the door is open; i…
- Natural law is a form of ethical naturalism, and it needs no ontological naturalism
For, and I teach this distinction to ordinands every year because it saves them from a bad argument. Aquinas says the natural law is the rational creature's participation in the eternal law (Summ…
- A dying man refuses to see his son. Does anyone have the right to push for a deathbed reconciliation?
I have been the priest called to rooms like this more often than I can count, and I have learned to distrust the word "reconciliation" when it arrives from outside the room. In my tradition…