Abigail Tulenko's Aeon animation presents Héloïse's letters as a radical ethics of love over institution. The insight that intention matters morally is correct — and Catholic. But the claim that love itself cannot sin collapses the distinction between eros and caritas, and leaves the human person worse off for it.
When COMECE responded to the EU Parliament's new Return Regulation in June 2026, it restated a foundational claim about the human person. That claim has direct consequences for how societies, institutions, and caregivers understand what it means to protect the vulnerable.
When a dormitory fire swept through Utumishi Girls Academy in Kenya on May 28, 2026, fifteen-year-old Fortune Amaya Losike had a clear path to safety. She chose another path entirely. Her story raises urgent questions about the formation of character, the roots of moral courage, and what it means to integrate faith so deeply that it reshapes instinct itself.
A reader asks for the Catholic Christian Meta-Model of the Person in a nutshell. This column offers exactly that — not a summary that flattens the model, but a short tour of its architecture that shows why its parts belong together.
Abigail Tulenko's Aeon animation presents Héloïse's letters as a radical ethics of love over institution. The insight that intention matters morally is correct — and Catholic. But the claim that love itself cannot sin collapses the distinction between eros and caritas, and leaves the human person worse off for it.
When COMECE responded to the EU Parliament's new Return Regulation in June 2026, it restated a foundational claim about the human person. That claim has direct consequences for how societies, institutions, and caregivers understand what it means to protect the vulnerable.
When a dormitory fire swept through Utumishi Girls Academy in Kenya on May 28, 2026, fifteen-year-old Fortune Amaya Losike had a clear path to safety. She chose another path entirely. Her story raises urgent questions about the formation of character, the roots of moral courage, and what it means to integrate faith so deeply that it reshapes instinct itself.
Canada's assisted dying program surpassed 100,000 deaths in a decade, making it the world's leading jurisdiction for government-sanctioned euthanasia. The data raise urgent questions about what a society communicates to its most vulnerable when medical culture substitutes death for care. A Catholic framework for the human person offers a different answer.
Ukraine's largest drone attack on Moscow marks not just a military escalation but a psychological one — a war in which retaliation has become its own logic. The Catholic Christian tradition offers a harder, more honest account of what peace actually requires.
Pope Leo XIV's November 2025 address to the Roman Rota named a specific distortion: 'false mercy' in annulment proceedings. The harder pastoral question is what genuine accompaniment looks like for Catholics who cannot obtain a declaration of nullity but still want to attempt a second civil marriage — and what the Church owes them in honesty.