[cornelis]

Thank you, Federalist 78!

[betty boop]

The current enthusiasms for "justice" and "rights" is almost as bad if not worse to the degree that modern concepts of these terms, thanks largely to Hobbes, can undermine any possibility of either dignity or transcendence.

Aquinas was much wiser — the state can only deal with certain obviously dangerous external crimes that would undermine the possibility of civil living, those that the generality of men can observe. The rest we should leave to freedom and virtue and the practical and fallible prudence of existing states, a prudence not all have, to be sure. Ultimate justice is found only in the transcendent order.

More beautiful insights of Father Schall....

We have seen what lodging justice in the courts, rather than in a transcendent order, has done for human dignity and liberty.

[beckett]

Chesterton became a Catholic because he "wanted to get rid of [his] sins."

Howard Dean left the Episcopal Church because he disagreed with them about a bike path.

Kind of an interesting contrast, no? I think there's little doubt as to which man is more serious, more deliberative and more trustworthy.

[cornelis]

FYI

[Dumb_Ox]

Schall is a gem. I owe much of my intellectual develoment to him, and I've never met the man. Here is his web site.