Religion & Law

The Catholic attorney who has raised questions about the direction of the Catholic legal thought project offers this clarification in response to Marc DeGirolami's post:

At one level I agree with Marc that the issue isn't whether CST is too focused on "theory"; it's whether the "theory" has any application to practice.  Mathematics, like CST, is, at one level, all theoretical, but academics still make a distinction between theoretical and applied mathematics.  I think the more important question is whether Catholic academics are using CST to speak to the questions and needs of real people (applied) or are using CST to engage the "law" as a purely, or at least primarily, theoretical matter.