Nova et Vetera, Fall 2026 (Vol. 24, No. 4)

Commentary
A Message from Across the Seas: Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Letter Magnifica Humanitas—Fecisti Nos ad Te—An Augustinian Ressourcement for the Twenty-First Century – Reinhard Hütter
Why Is the Church So Obsessed with Sex? – John Michael McDermott, S.J.

Articles
The Presence of Heaven in the Eucharist: Patristic Foundations – Kenneth J. Howell
The Discipline of the Eucharist: St. John Cassian on the Flesh of the All-Holy Lamb – Thomas L. Humphries Jr.
Disarray in the Natural Order and from It Greater Good: On the Effects of Fallen Angels – Timothy Kearns
The Church’s Authority over the State: A Response to Kevin Vallier – Steven Waldorf

Symposium on Natural Law
A Critique (and Reorientation) of the New Natural Law Contra-Life Argument – Thomas Finegan
Marriage in Its Procreative and Unitive Structuring as the Normative Good of Human Sexuality: A Natural Law Approach – Paul Gondreau
A Copernican Revolution in the Good – Steven J. Jensen
Reorienting Discussions Regarding “Knowledge of the Natural Law Through Connaturality” – Matthew K. Minerd
Natural Law as Natural Inclinations to Wisdom – Scott Roniger
Double Effect and Universalizability – Christopher Tollefsen
The Natural-Law Basis for Religious Liberty Revisited – David VanDrunen

Book Reviews
Salvation Through Temptation: Maximus the Confessor and Thomas Aquinas on Christ’s Victory over the Devil by Benjamin E. Heidgerken – Nathaniel Mayne, O.P.
Jesus Christ, Scandal of Particularity: Vatican II, a Catholic Theology of Religions, Justification, and Truth by Eduardo J. Echeverria – Gerald McDermott
Free for Christ: Religious Obedience and Thomistic Moral Theology by Mary Christa Nutt, R.S.M. – Matthew McKenna
Unity in Christ: Bishops, Synodality, and Communion by Anthony Fisher, O.P. – David Francis Sherwood
Animal Minds in Medieval Latin Philosophy: A Sourcebook from Augustine to Wodeham by Anselm Oelze – John Skalko