Benjamin Wiker

Benjamin Wiker (1960–) is a Roman Catholic ethicist.

Quotes

• Society needs the Church to draw moral lines faster than those who are erasing them, and so cure confusion with clarity. The Church’s claim, and rightfully so, is that she is in possession of the moral compass, one that is constructed according to the laws of our nature, and one that is immeasurably enhanced in its precision by the upgrades of revelation, one that is accurate no matter how far we sinful humans wander from the right course.
  • The Church’s Broken Moral Compass (December 20, 2018)

• As one becomes more habituated to the vice, one becomes less and less able to act otherwise. The vicious are marked by slavery to their vice, not freedom.
  • The Problem of Tolerance—and a Cure (February 18, 2020)