WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025
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Henry [VIII], for reasons of state, made himself Supreme Head of the Church, and made it a capital offense to say that he was not. Then, finding it inconvenient that [St. Thomas] More should live, Henry had him put to death by perjury. We may hold that such a judicial murder is contrary to Divine and Natural Law; or we may hold that it was merely a matter of taste and policy how the all-competent state disposed of the lives and bodies of inconvenient persons. But we must decide for one or the other.
– Raymond Wilson Chambers,
The Place of St. Thomas More in English Literature and History [1937] |
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March 19, 2025
President Trump’s Well-Deserved Chastisement by Chief Justice Roberts
Good for John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States, for chastising President Trump and lecturing him on the principles of our constitutional judicial system. After federal judge James Boasberg issued a restraining order prohibiting federal officials from sending Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador, Trump and his minions went on the attack against Boasberg. Trump called the judge a “troublemaker and agitator” and … |
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