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We Stand or Fall Together: A Century on Co-Responsibility

The concept of “co-responsibility,” introduced by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009[1] and elaborated in 2012,[2] recently took a step onto center stage with the synthesis document from the first session of the Synod on Synodality. Notably, no established theology of co-responsibility yet exists. It is simultaneously an ecclesiological concept and

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On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century

How I Discovered That, by the Standards of Contemporary Academic Philosophy, Thomist Claims Must Be Problematic I was already fifty-five years old when I discovered that I had become a Thomistic Aristotelian. But I had first encountered Thomism thirty-eight years earlier, as an undergraduate, not in the form of moral philosophy,

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Authority in the 20th Century

I. The rise of fascist, communist and totalitarian movements and the development of the two totalitarian regimes, Stalin’s after 1929 and Hitler’s after 1938, took place against a background of a more or less general, more or less dramatic breakdown of all traditional authorities. Nowhere was this breakdown the direct

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We Stand or Fall Together: A Century on Co-Responsibility

On Having Survived the Academic Moral Philosophy of the 20th Century

Authority in the 20th Century