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Reply to Ivereigh, Brugger, Shea, and Fastiggi
My recent Catholic Herald articleabout Pope Francis and capital punishment has gotten a fair bit of attention. Some of it has been positive, some of it less so. In a new essay at Catholic World...
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Five Proofs on The Patrick Coffin Show
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Patrick Coffin before a live audience for a special episode of his show. The subjects were my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God, atheism, and related...
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Around the web with Five Proofs
At The Secular Outpost, atheist Bradley Bowen inaugurates what promises to be an interesting series of posts on Five Proofs of the Existence of God. His verdict so far:Unlike the cases for God by...
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McClamrock on By Man shall His Blood Be Shed
At Today’s Catholic, David McClamrock reviews By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment. It’s a somewhat mixed review. On the one hand, McClamrock acknowledges that:The...
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A further reply to Fastiggi, etc.
In an article at Catholic World Report, Robert Fastiggi is critical of the position I have taken vis-à-vis Pope Francis and capital punishment in my recent articles at Catholic Herald and Catholic...
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Five Proofs around the net
Strange Notions has kindly hosted a Q and A on my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God(which you can order either from Amazon– though they are temporarily out of stock – or directly from Ignatius...
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Smith on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
In the Fall 2017 issue of the Claremont Review of Books, Catholic moral theologian Janet Smith reviews By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment. Writes Smith:[T]he...
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Review of Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back
My review of Daniel Dennett’s From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds appears in the Fall 2017 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. (This is the issue that also contains Janet...
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Pakaluk on capital punishment
Philosopher Michael Pakaluk kindly provided an endorsement for By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment. In an essay at The Catholic Thing, Mike puts forward an...
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Aristotle and contemporary science
Routledge has just released the important new anthology Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science, edited by William M. R. Simpson, Robert C. Koons, and Nicholas J. Teh. I’ve contributed...
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Dawkins vs. Aquinas on Pints with Aquinas
Recently I was interviewed by Matt Fradd for his Pints with Aquinas podcast. We talk a bit about Five Proofs of the Existence of God, but our main topic is Richard Dawkins’s critique of Aquinas’s Five...
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Link it! Link it good!
On BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg discusses Kant’s categorical imperative with David Oderberg and other philosophers. Philosopher of science Bas van Fraassen is interviewed at 3:AM Magazine.From Edições...
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Two further ideas about development of doctrine
Go read Mike Pakaluk’s excellent brief article “Four Ideas About Development” at First Things, then come back. Welcome back. Here are a couple of further thoughts to add to his:Fifth, development is...
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Reply to Brugger and Tollefsen (Updated again)
UPDATE 11/21: Part 3 has also now been posted.UPDATE 11/20: Part 2 has now been posted.In a recent series of articles at Public Discourse, E. Christian Brugger (hereand here) and Christopher Tollefsen...
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Reply to Fastiggi
In a recent article at Catholic World Report, Prof. Robert Fastiggi defends the claim that the Church could reverse her traditional teaching that capital punishment is legitimate in principle. My...
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Barron and Craig event
On Saturday, January 13, 2018, the Claremont Center for Reason, Religion, and Public Affairs will host “A Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron and William Lane Craig” at Claremont McKenna College....
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Reply to Griffiths and Hart
By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment received some pretty nasty reviews from Paul Griffiths in First Things and David Bentley Hart in Commonweal. My response to...
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Feser vs. Ahmed on Unbelievable?
Recently, on the UK radio program Unbelievable? with Justin Brierley, I debated atheist philosopher Arif Ahmed on the subject of my book Five Proofs of the Existence of God. You can now listen to the...
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Debate? What debate?
Catholic apologist Dave Armstrongseems to be a well-meaning fellow, but I have to say that I am finding some of his behavior very odd. To my great surprise, I learned this afternoon that he has...
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Manion on By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed
At The Wanderer, Catholic writer Christopher Manionkindly reviews By Man Shall His Blood Be Shed: A Catholic Defense of Capital Punishment. From the review:A highly recommended book that sheds the...
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