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This extraordinary passage from (the Catholic) Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column today. She recaps how American bishops reacted at first to the 2002 scandals, and then says: Does any of this, the finger-pointing and blame-gaming, sound familiar? Isn’t it what we’ve been hearing the past few weeks? At the end of [a 2002 Noonan…

“How little we know, how eager to learn.” — Sir John Templeton Tim Burke: There’s really very little to be said for trying to carry on a conversation (online or otherwise) with people who have nothing but an instrumental view of conversation as a means to their own anti-pluralistic or illiberal ends, who concern-troll every…

Here at Templeton, we have this week posted our newest Big Question series of essays from major thinkers, all answering the same question. The new one is: “Does moral action depend on reasoning?” Go here to read all the answers. Contributors include Robbie George, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Jonah Lehrer, Stanley Fish, Joshua…

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church: 2284 Scandal is an attitude or behavior which leads another to do evil. The person who gives scandal becomes his neighbor’s tempter. He damages virtue and integrity; he may even draw his brother into spiritual death. Scandal is a grave offense if by deed or omission another is…
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