Might Leo's beloved Francis & so-called conservative "New Natural Law" Theorists Death Penalty teachings have Abortion, COVID & possibly Serial Murderer/Rapist Ted Bundy Deadly Implications?
"If there is anything to be learned from the failure of the Grisez-Finnis system it is this. Hence to retreat from the problem by attempting to locate some strand or pocket of moral discourse represents a loss of nerve in the face of the question. Rather than being a way of recovery, it is a symptom of the problem. If there are no "natures" and no proper telic completions to humanity and the goods sought, then I see no compelling reason to opt for Aristotelian virtue rather than Nietzsche." - Russel Hittinger "So Hittinger's challenge is particularly sharp for a Thomist : if one wants to retain objective moral norms while removing or weakening the teleological metaphysics that grounds them, one has to explain what ultimately makes those norms binding rather than merely preferred." "That also explains the phrase ' loss of nerve.' Hittinger thinks that retreating into a limited 'strand or pocket of moral discourse' avoids the har...