You know, it’s funny how blog discussions go: who’d have thought that a very brief post linking to an article about people who have trouble deciding between their interior decor and their children would have ended up going deep into the question of how we evaluate the authority of a controversial teaching of the Church? Toward the end of that discussion I suggested that there are probably some good books on the subject: this recent one by Cardinal Dulles seems a good candidate.

I’ll just ignore the fact that the first review is from a teacher at Ave Maria University and the book is published by Ave Maria University’s publishing company.