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San Fernando: Mother, Jesus Christ spoke told me then and said I am his Knight who will suffer great labors for him in the wars against the Moors. I told Him I want to shed my blood for him and His glorious mother.

Scene one Donna Berenguera in tears kisses her 16 year old moaning son with a body covered with cruel sores causing him unrelieved torture at the door of death with  Archbishop Ximenez in armor  near by in a chapel.  Berenguera:  Our Lady of Ona, I beg you Holy Mary for the life of my son. Berenguera then is quiet with her hands folded in prayer and her head on her hands and then she looks at her son smiling. The sores are gone and she weeps for joy seeing Fernando sitting up cured and she makes the sign of the cross and says: Thank you, Mother and Queen of Heaven, I can see his soul is changed for I see his eyes now shine with a deep light that is proof that you have accepted him as your son. Fernando smiling says to his mother: Thank you mother, Holy Mary has cured me because you consecrated me to her and  to her Son, the King of Kings. Berenguera:  You look different my son.  Fernando:  I feel difference. I think Holy Mary wants me build i...
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Alasdair McIntyre, Walter Farrel OP, and Charles de Koninck, among others, agree that Suárez (1548-1617) was neither a Thomist nor a reliable interpreter of Thomism...Unfortunately, this is quite an inaccurate reading of Suárez as an “American style” social contract proponent. Specifically, according to Professor Kincaid, “Suárez supports the claim that the community has an intrinsic power to make law ….” Yet, saying this is beyond pushing the envelope.[6] Whereas for Aquinas the polis grew somewhat spontaneously as individuals teamed into families, groups of laborers, and towns, Suárez posited that the polis was created through an actual, affirmative delegation of power from the people to the prince.

https://thenewdigest.substack.com/p/the-uses-of-suarez The Uses of Suarez A Review of Kincaid, “Law From Below: How The Thought of Francisco Suárez, SJ, Can Renew Contemporary Legal Engagement” Adrian Vermeule Nov 19, 2024 The New Digest is delighted to present this guest essay by Mr. Aníbal Sabater, a partner at Chaffetz Lindsey LLP, a specialist in international arbitration, and a noted commentator on classical legal themes. His previous work in our pages on constitutionalism in Spain and can be found  here  and  here ; and his posts at the Ius et Iustitium site, including a series on lawyers and law in Dante, can be found  here . The New Digest is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Subscribe Share In his 1879 Encyclical  Aeterni Patris , Leo XIII urged scholars to read Aquinas directly: “…  lest the false for the true or the corrupt for the pure be drunk in, be ye watchf...
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