William Saunders, Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council, comments at The Catholic Thing on Archbishop Chaput’s recent book, Render Unto Caesar:
It is astounding to recall, as Chaput notes, that the famous American Jesuit John Courtney Murray believed that natural law, since it can be discerned by anyone, offered the perfect basis on which people of any, or no, religious persuasion could discuss, argue, and persuade in a democracy. Yet, in a supreme irony, anyone who speaks about issues of natural law today is accused of masking a religious argument, and it is often asserted they should be disqualified on that basis from participating in the public square. Chaput notes that talk of “separation of church and state” is often used as a weapon to shut down debates. “The secularism proposed today…is not religious neutrality. It is anti-religious.”
