Nova et Vetera, Vol. 24, No. 4

Fall 2026

Featuring: Reinhard Hütter, John Michael McDermott, S.J., Kenneth J. Howell, Thomas L. Humphries Jr., Timothy Kearns, Steven Waldorf, Thomas Finegan, Paul Gondreau, Steven J. Jensen, Matthew K. Minerd, Scott Roniger, Christopher Tollefsen, David VanDrunen, Nathaniel Mayne, O.P., Gerald McDermott, Matthew McKenna, David Francis Sherwood, John Skalko

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Articles

A Message from Across the Seas: Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas—Fecisti Nos ad Te—An Augustinian Ressourcement for the Twenty-First Century

Reinhard Hütter

Why Is the Church So Obsessed with Sex?

John Michael McDermott, S.J.

The Presence of Heaven in the Eucharist: Patristic Foundations

Kenneth J. Howell

The Discipline of the Eucharist: St. John Cassian on the Flesh of the All-Holy Lamb

Thomas L. Humphries Jr.

Disarray in the Natural Order and from It Greater Good: On the Effects of Fallen Angels

Timothy Kearns

The Church’s Authority over the State: A Response to Kevin Vallier

Steven Waldorf

A Critique (and Reorientation) of the New Natural Law Contra-Life Argument

Thomas Finegan

Marriage in Its Procreative and Unitive Structuring as the Normative Good of Human Sexuality: A Natural Law Approach

Paul Gondreau

A Copernican Revolution in the Good

Steven J. Jensen

Reorienting Discussions Regarding “Knowledge of the Natural Law Through Connaturality”

Matthew K. Minerd

Natural Law as Natural Inclinations to Wisdom

Scott Roniger

Double Effect and Universalizability

Christopher Tollefsen

The Natural-Law Basis for Religious Liberty Revisited

David VanDrunen

Book Reviews

Nathaniel Mayne, O.P., Gerald McDermott, Matthew McKenna, David Francis Sherwood, John Skalko