A Questionable Conclusion

very important to remind Catholics and even certain priests on Twitter that the Magisterium does in fact have something to say about these mandates and it isn’t in their favor

this for example is taken from paragraph 70 of Pius XI’s Casti connubii pic.twitter.com/zJjWMHfYH7

— Classical Theist ✠ (@ClassicalTheis) September 14, 2021

Injustice does provide limits to civil authority, but punishment alone doesn't tell us what is just and unjust.

Domingo de Soto on the Two Powers

Domingo de Soto on the two powers https://t.co/ZAxKNdtxla

— The Josias (@josias_rex) May 13, 2021

A Common Good Approach to Constitutionalism?

Here is the video of 'Toward a Common Good Approach to Constitutionalism' with @Caseyco231 It was a great conversation in our 'What is the Common Good?' series and we hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed hosting Conor. https://t.co/0rtQCGz9ey

— CommonGoodProject (@CommonGoodProj1) March 18, 2021

Andew Willard Jones Today

Andrew Willard Jones on the meaning and just use of power: a timely discussion, indeed.

Join us at 4:00 p.m. EST for the 40 minute lecture followed by live Q&A. https://t.co/qzH9F0T96B

— New Polity (@PostliberalTho1) November 2, 2020

An Integralist Response to Dante

Dante is correct to state that temporal authority does not flow from the Church per se but rather comes directly from God. However, the lower must be subsumed or elevated into the higher. The natural end now serves the supernatural. The passions obey the intellect.

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 22, 2020

If it is true that the Church is the head of the City of God on earth, then all lesser societies are subject to that highest one, just as it is Her mission to baptize all legitimate societies that they may come together with the Church to form the triumphant Heavenly City.

— Taylor Patrick O'Neill (@thomaesplendor) July 22, 2020

Political and Ecclesial Authority

Some people have disputed my statement that it doesn’t belong to governments to say whether we can go to Mass. Here is my explanation:

The temporal power (emperor, kings, presidents, prime and other ministers, parliaments, and courts of law) exists to promote man’s temporal

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 20, 2020

Lex Regia

The tyrannical Lex Regia?, by @smithpatrick08 https://t.co/hLIc81JDUq

— Ius & Iustitium (@iusetiustitium) June 18, 2020

P. Smith seems to suppose that Integralism: 'A Manual of Political Philosophy' attempts to criticise Roman Law and the Lex Regia. In fact, the book criticises only codification and the misreading of the Lex Regia as an account of the origin of civil legitimacy as such.

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) June 19, 2020

The Constantinian Legacy

Tomorrow is the Feast of Sts. Constantine and Helen in the Orthodox Church. I have a few thoughts on the complex issues surrounding Constantine’s legacy in the Orthodox Church (which is dominated by the influence of his biographer, Eusebius).

— George Demacopoulos (@GDemacopoulos) May 20, 2020

See the thread.

A Faithful Interpretation of Suarez?

forgetting that Francisco Suarez was such a Marxist pic.twitter.com/msfWIagOsZ

— Jordan L. Perkins, Doctor of Juris (@jordanlperkins) May 7, 2020

How do we get from point A (resources given by God for the benefit of all) to point Z (after being allocated and being the matter of productive labor, what is produced is nevertheless still a "common good" that can be distributed by whoever holds political authority)?

I am doubting that the distinction resulting from the mendicant controversies between ownership and use would be that helpful, though it is the case that later scholastics applied it.

Coercive Authority

In which @thomaspink1 discusses the profound differences between the Catholic view of coercive authority (as represented for example by Suárez), and modern theories such as that of Hobbes. https://t.co/upw3Pmp0VV

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) April 25, 2020

More on the Common Good

Me: “Authority is held in trust for and exercised on behalf of the community ... not for the benefit of individuals taken one by one.”

Patheos blogger, just making stuff up: Vermeule argues for aggregative utilitarianism! https://t.co/GYBvijIsMd

— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) April 25, 2020

“A society constituted by persons who love their private good above the common good, or who identify the common good with the private good, is a society not of free men, but of tyrants.” — @ccpecknold

Exactly. A host of mini-tyrants is still a tyranny. https://t.co/Vq3Zwe2hs6

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) April 25, 2020

What Checks Against Absolutism?

The integralist understanding of authority is anti-liberal, but it is also against modern state-absolutism and totalitarianism. This is true not only of contemporary integralists, but has been true throughout integralist history.

— Pater Edmund (@sancrucensis) April 22, 2020

The integralist understanding of authority is anti-liberal, but it is also against modern state-absolutism and totalitarianism. This is true not only of contemporary integralists, but has been true throughout integralist history.

Integralists can say that they are opposed to modern state-absolutism and totalitarianism, but what safeguards would they advocate? What forms of resistance by the Church and citizens (or subjects) are possible, and how are they to be reconciled with integralist claims regarding authority? Where is their development of "just resistance theory"? And to which Latin theory of the origin of authority do they subscribe?

Integralism

Soft-back version of 'Integralism: a manual of political philosophy' now available for pre-order in the US, priced $31. https://t.co/pZ466ZSHfU

— Fr Thomas Crean OP (@crean_fr) April 13, 2020

Alasdair MacIntyre: "The Justification of Coercion and Constraint"

Pope, Councils, Bishops, and Synods: Insights from the Order of Preachers for Church Governance

From the Common Good to Public Order (and Back)

Gladden Pappin



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Gerard Wegemer on Shakespeare, the Book of Sir Thomas More, and the Common Good

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