https://catholicfamilynews.com/blog/2018/10/27/2018-10-27-tyranny-and-sexual-abuse-in-the-catholic-church-a-jesuit-tragedy/ Tyranny and Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church: A Jesuit Tragedy Dr. John R. T. Lamont In the light of new revelations about sexual abuse in the Church, many Catholics are asking how the situation that these revelations have disclosed can possibly have come about. The first question that occurs, a question of long standing, is; why did bishops deal with sexual abusers by concealing their offences and moving them to new assignments, rather than by removing them from ministry? No sufficient answer has yet been given to this question. It has now been made more pointed by a further question; how did Theodore McCarrick get appointed as Archbishop of Washington and Cardinal, and even become a principal drafter of the American bishops’ policy on sexual abuse in 2002, when his own involvement in sexual abuse was widely known in clerical circles and had been made known to...
Villey traced the origin of "rights talk" (specifically the notion of ius as a subjective power or right of an individual) to the 14th-century nominalist theology of William of Ockham. "Deformed" Tradition: He contended that while this development stemmed from Christian thought, it was a "deformed" or "aberrant" variety. He argued that it abandoned the objective, cosmic justice of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas—where law is an objective, fair, and orderly arrangement of things—in favor of subjective, individualistic "rights". A "Deformed" Variety: Villey believed these rights were "unreal, contradictory
AI Overview Yes, this accurately represents the views of French legal philosopher Michel Villey (1914–1988). Villey, a leading 20th-century proponent of natural law (specifically a Thomist-Aristotelian approach), argued that the modern concept of subjective rights ( droits de l'homme ) was a perversion of classical and Christian thought. Here are the key points of his argument: Derivation from Late Medieval Christianity: Villey traced the origin of "rights talk" (specifically the notion of ius as a subjective power or right of an individual) to the 14th-century nominalist theology of William of Ockham . "Deformed" Tradition: He contended that while this development stemmed from Christian thought, it was a "deformed" or "aberrant" variety. He argued that it abandoned the objective, cosmic justice of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas—where law is an objective, fair, and orderly arrangement of things—in favor of subjective, individualistic ...