Posted on 10/27/2020 11:45:25 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court would make her, if confirmed, the sixth Roman Catholic on the nine-person court.
The Catholic Church has already contributed much to the United States’ legal system - including “the whole idea of law in general,” Fr. Pius Pietrzyk, OP, told CNA.
“It’s the development of canon law (the law that governs the Church) that gives both the United States and Europe their modern notions of law..."
While aspects of canon law were present since the early days of the Church, the use of the term ‘canon law’, as rules and laws governing ecclesial matters rather than civil ones, started around the 12th century, according to New Advent. While the code of canon law has been updated numerous times, it is the longest still-functioning rule of law in the West.
“Even the idea of a professional legal class, that is of lawyers, finds its root in the professionalization of law and the development of the Church's canon law, in the 12th century.
More generally, he added, the Catholic tradition has always understood that faith and reason work together...
Stephen Payne, dean of the Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, said it is this emphasis of reason in the Catholic tradition that makes Catholics good lawyers and judges.
Payne added that the U.S. legal system also includes ideas that come from natural law, a concept emphasized in the Catholic tradition that has roots in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and even further back to Aristotle.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, natural law is “present in the heart of each man and established by reason….It expresses the dignity of the human person and forms the basis of his fundamental rights and duties.” ...
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Thanks! A little light reading that I’ll get to eventually.
The Catholic tradition encompasses the origins. But some major philosophers also redefined the game.
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.’ 39 But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also. 40 And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well. 41 If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles. 42 Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you.
- Jesus
“It was Catholic conscience confronting the evils of New World colonialism that led vicariously to the development of the modern system of international law”
Oh Right. The American Bill of Rights, based on the English Bill of Rights, the Magna Carta, English Common law and Dissenter precepts, is just a sidelight to...one guy no one ever heard?
I know, I know. I haven’t heard of him because I’m...gasp...a WASP!
I’m sure that all those silly Protestant Colonials had nothing to do with civilization in America, it was actually a secret program of El Papa!
Yup, time to let the Brown Eyes of Calabria take their rightful place over us. The Real Americans!
Jefferson and Madison were just pogues. Got it.
I hear ya. It also irritates the heck out of me to hear prominent folks (e.g., Barry Obama) repeatedly use the subjective first-person pronoun (I) when the objective (me) is necessary. “It has been a great blessing to Michelle and I to live in the White House,” “When you elected Joe Biden and I in 2008...” etc.
“Too bad they have a commie Pope.”
Actually, we have no pope. Frankie has excommunicated himself latae sententiae, and is therefore ineligible for the office.
Yep, you’re right - there is no room for WASPs in important roles like the Supreme Court. It is well established that WASPs have lower intelligence and lower moral standards than those whose DNA comes from Calabria and Sicily. That’s why the Mafia is such a well run organization.
“It is well established that WASPs have lower intelligence and lower moral standards than those whose DNA comes from Calabria and Sicily”
Yup. We’uns is just the ‘po peeple of peapatch Arkansas, gotta have Mustache Petes like the Cuomo familia tell us what to do, they know how to make a group do what they’re told. Real Organization Men!
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