Introduction: Property
Summer 2026
Property
From Medieval Dominium to Modern Property
Olivier Boulnois“The natural right to property rests directly on the freedom of the acting subject. The supposedly modern concept of property rights is, in this sense, a medieval invention.”
Private Property and the Common Good
Thomas Philip“The good of an individual is the same as the good of the community, but it is greater when considered as a common good. . . . The love of virtue tends to unite cities in the koinē sympheron, the common coming together or common good of civic life.”
Hindering Charity by Distracting the Mind: St. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Money
Jacob Imam“Insofar as money relates to all things, and in an abstracted sense contains them, it masquerades, so says Aquinas, as a universal good.”
Man and Woman, Church and Society: “What God Joins, Let No Man Separate”
Margaret H. McCarthy“Marriage now has a ‘share in the full and definitive love of Christ for the Church’ and the ecclesial mission to mediate and symbolically make that present to the world.”
God-Beloved: Storytelling as a Method of Discovery and Renewal in Phaedrus
Erik van Versendaal“[T]he teacher . . . sows the word he himself has received from above (through his own masters and mentors) so exhaustively that its bounty emerges wholly from the student’s heart as if without any other cause.”
God and the World in Nietzsche and Ratzinger
Maurice Agbaw-Ebai“Only when we know that we are creatures loved by God, forgiven by God, and called into friendship by God, as Ratzinger invites us to consider, do we live truly free and with purpose and hope.”