Forgiveness has been addressed. The contemporaneous record has been set out. The remaining question is why accountability still matters in a free society committed to truth, justice, and the common good. The answer is not found in the desire for private vengeance. It is found in the forward-looking purpose of justice itself. Accountability is the…
The Formation of the Mind During COVID My first assumption during the early months of the COVID period was simple. If people could see the evidence, they would make better decisions. I believed that truth, once placed in the open, possessed a quiet strength of its own. That assumption did not survive contact with events….
Forgiveness Is Not Acquittal Our Lord commands us to forgive our enemies. He does so first because we ourselves have been forgiven an immeasurable debt and must become like him. In commanding this, he also frees the injured soul from bondage to hatred and the desire for private vengeance. That command is absolute. It is…
Over the past several years, I have noticed an increasing number of thoughtful Catholics expressing nostalgia for monarchy. Reading Helen Castor’s Joan of Arc: A History reminded me how different monarchy looks when viewed not as an idealized abstraction, but as a functioning political system inhabited by real men and women with ordinary ambitions, rivalries,…