Ecumenical Councils Podcasts
A series of jovial guides to the twenty-one Ecumenical Councils. Introduction: Nicaea and Constantinople I Ephesus and Chalcedon Constantinople II Constantinople III Nicaea II Constantinople IV Lateran I Lateran II to IV Lyons I – II Vienne Constance Lateran V Trent Vatican I Vatican II
On a book review in ‘Commonweal’
The American journal Commonweal has recently published a book review of Thomas Crean’s and Alan Fimister’s Integralism: a manual of political philosophy. The book review misrepresents the book in certain ways and criticises it in others. The present article will explain some of the misrepresentations and analyse the criticisms. The most serious misrepresentation lies in […]
Dr. John Joy – Assent Owed to Non-Infallible Teachings of the Magisterium
Integralism and the Infallibility of Quanta cura:
A Reply to Lawrence King and Robert T. Miller By John P. Joy In a recent article at Public Discourse, Lawrence King and Robert T. Miller offered a cordial critique of some arguments I had made here at the Dialogos Institute, in which I defended the infallibility of the condemnations of modern errors contained […]
The Theological Note of Integralism
The Teaching of Quanta cura is Definitive: A Reply to Robert T. Miller By Dr. John P. Joy In his recent article on “Integralism and Catholic Doctrine” (here at Public Discourse), Robert T. Miller argues against the integralist ideal of a Catholic confessional state, understood as one in which the state would “officially endorse […]
Capital Punishment and the Infallibility of the Church – John P. Joy
In a two-part essay at Public Discourse (here and here), E. Christian Brugger has responded to Edward Feser and Joseph M. Bassette’s new book on capital punishment (By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment). Feser and Bessette argue that the Church’s traditional teaching on the moral permissibility of the […]