The second coincidence is “Double Doctor Day” (perhaps the one and only such day in the Church calendar, though I haven’t done the research to verify this. Today is not only the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, but also St. Hildegard of Bingen. Both of these saints are Doctors of the Church. St. Robert Bellarmine was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XI in 1931. St. Hildegard of Bingen was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012. What does this second coin...| CIT
The end of OT 2024 at SCOTUS will call forth a variety of analyses, including the of the less helpful sort that reveal more about the analyst than the Court. Before those end-of-term reviews begin to proliferate, it is worth looking back at the excellent NYTimes op-ed by CIT Director Joel Alicea, The Supreme Court […]| CIT
Lon Fuller’s account of the “internal morality of law” is sometimes described as a kind of “merely procedural natural law theory.” But Fuller also held that “the most important respect in which an observance of the demands of legal morality can serve the broader aims of human life generally” is something that “lies in the […]| CIT