David G. Bonagura, Jr., is an adjunct professor at St. Joseph?s Seminary and Catholic Distance University. He serves as Religion Editor of The University Bookman. He is the author of Steadfast in Faith: Catholicism and the Challenges of Secularism and Staying with the Catholic Church, and the translator of Jerome?s Tears: Letters to Friends in Mourning.
Laws and moral prohibitions - even seemingly obvious ones like the prohibition of killing innocents - do not function in a vacuum; their meanings and powers stem from a prior metaphysical order, independent of any individual's perception, in which they originate and can be understood.
Date posted: 2023-12-16