There is much talk these days about the concept of the “development of doctrine” in the Church. The topic is a complex one and its various nuances cannot be adequately dealt with in a short essay.

Supreme Court’s Chiles Decision Resulted from Decades of Legal Ground-Tilling A Senate Timing Update This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—April 10 Audio By Carbonatix In a ruling today (in Huntsman v ...

In litigation, timing is often important. And that was certainly true for religious liberty in a case argued in the Fourth Circuit last week. The case, Zinski v. Liberty University, raises an ...

"This article explores how New York courts have drawn the line between abstention and adjudication in church-related ...

The Evangelical Covenant Church became the latest Protestant denomination in the United States to repudiate the doctrine of discovery, the theological justification that allowed the discovery and ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Ratio Decidendi is a recurring series by Stephanie Barclay exploring the reasoning – from practical considerations to deep ...

As an avid TED Talk fan, I delight in the insights so many of its talks offer. One that stopped me in my tracks was a comment of American mathematician, Cathy O’Neill. She was discussing the ...

Under the leadership of its current prefect, Cardinal Luis Ladaria, the Vatican office has made a number of recent moves that have garnered praise from theologians. The CDF is the ...

After decades of progressive dissent, the leaders of the Christian Reformed Church in America finally took a firm stand against the sexual revolution. Not only did the 2022 CRC Synod, voting 123-53, ...

“The church of the living God, the pillar and ground L of the truth … the household of God … built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone …” ...

What are the responsibilities of the Catholic Church when considering the historical realities of settler colonialism in what we now call the Americas? This question lies at the heart of recent ...