Some theoretical differences are unbridgeable.  For example, what specialists call the incommensurability thesis is either true or false (I think it is false).  Yet considering that a war for the moral sense of Western Civilization is going on, you would think Thomists and other natural law thinkers would work harder to find common ground.  To this end, I suggest:

Monday, as always, is for letters from students.  You would think my letters would all be about things like natural law.  Directly, no.  Indirectly ....

Question:

“There is a phrase of facile liberality uttered again and again at ethical societies and parliaments of religion:  ‘The religions of the earth differ in rites and forms, but they are the same in what they teach.’  It is false; it is the opposite of the fact.  The religions of the earth do not differ greatly in rites and forms; they do greatly differ in what they teach.”

When Rome burned under Nero, the cry was "The Christians must have set the fires."  This time it is our Rome that is burning.  But this time the cry is, "The Christians are trying to drown us."

As in the days of Babylon on the plain of Shinar, men have begun to murmur among themselves, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves.”

Statistics can so easily be manipulated to give misleading impressions that a famous little book is titled How to Lie With Statistics.  The author wrote it in 1954.  My economics professor assigned it in 1971.  It’s still in print.

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way.  – Aristotle.

This reader hails from down under.  Although it’s student letter day, I’m not certain that she is a student -- but I do think students will enjoy her question.

Question:

“In my experience, university-educated people believe that staying within the protocols of consent and good intentions absolves a person of moral responsibility for any suffering they might inflict in their personal lives.  ‘Who have you hurt without meaning to?’ is a hard question for anyone to answer honestly, but decadence makes it harder.”