When I was at Notre Dame studying under Joe Evans, Frank O'Malley, and others, there was a very lively debate about the distinction between natural l….

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of ha….

I think it is important that religious leaders of all kinds consciously attempt to distinguish between issues of natural law on which there is consen….

I think the people will - who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this count….

I was nurtured in the church; I went to a Catholic school; I was an altar boy; I went to a Catholic university; I was steeped in the moral tradition ….

I'm a product of a Notre Dame education; those professors taught me a lot about how you separate the city of God from the state. I'm also a reverent ….

I have no question that the Roman Catholic Church teaches that abortion in virtually all circumstances is wrong. I think the church's position at all….

We do not put enough emphasis on early childhood years. We neglect children in this society; as a society we're guilty of child neglect. If we could ….

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion..

I think the Ronald Reagan tax reform proposals are a step toward distributive justice. They redistribute the tax burden more equitably and more progr….

I think there has been an unfortunate tendency for a lot of different groups to forget that distinction between natural law and revealed truth and to….

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago..

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is no….

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a g….

I would argue that practices that destroy ecosystems always destroy jobs..

Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take….

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pa….

Broadly speaking, it is my conclusion that a pretty good guide to most issues of natural law is to look at those areas where you find a consensus in ….

I am one of those people who deeply resents not having been born in the 19th century, when there were still open places to explore..

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very careful….

If the bishops are saying that it is divine revelation that seven percent of unemployment is morally unacceptable and that that is a teaching which m….