Against the Separationists

Br. Anthony Maria Akerman O.P. on the impossibility of a natural law regime, and the necessity of the divine law for the temporal power.

Many Catholics, seeking to avoid the labels of both “liberalism” and “integralism,” attempt to split the difference by describing the State as a kind of “natural law regime.” In this imagined via media, they see themselves set apart from true liberals, for whom even appealing to the “natural law” is excessively partisan; and at the same time, set apart …