Barry R. Weingast (Stanford): Adam Smith’s Industrial Organization of Religion: Explaining the Medieval Church’s Monopoly and Its Breakdown in the Reformation. Garry Wills reviews Augustine: Conversions to Confessions by Robin Lane Fox. Matthew Minerd (CUA): Natural Law and History in the Moral Philosophy of Jacques Maritain. Steven Douglas Smith (San Diego): The Tortuous Course of Religious Freedom. The synod has been a sham — faithful Catholic leaders should walk out: Steve Skojec on how the church is making a dangerous turn toward heresy in its positions on divorce and homosexuality. Do conservative Catholics want a divorce? Ross Douthat on the plot to change Catholicism. Catholic theologians ask New York Times to stop letting Ross Douthat write about theology. Purging daily demons: What’s behind the popularity of exorcisms? Catholics are going to freak when we find aliens.
