Links to essays in document form:
A brief historical survey of the social and theological developments in Western culture that have led to the widespread incomprehension of marriage as a divinely ordered, indissoluble union and foundational element of human society, even among Catholics.
A tale of the shenanigans undertaken by a group of early fourth century schismatics who formed around Melitius, bishop of Lycopolis in Upper Egypt, whose undermining of the orthodox Patriarchy of Alexandria would prove an incessant problem for Athanasius in his struggle against Arianism.
A biographical sketch of the career of Las Casas, and his evolving repudiation of the injustices and indignities inflicted upon colonized peoples by the European powers in early modern society.
An overview of the development of the Vatican II conciliar document that would eventually be promulgated as the “Declaration on Religious Freedom: Dignitatis Humanae”, highlighting the theological and doctrinal concerns raised by the document, which were centered on the Church’s understanding of the idea of religious liberty, and demonstrating that the concept of human dignity emerged as the locus of that understanding, providing a ground for the Church to re-define her relationship to the state in the “secularized” environment of modernity, while retaining her a priori commitment to the integrity of the relationship between freedom (liberty) and truth.