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"In Defense of the Catholic Clergy"

Posted on March 27, 2010
This piece, by Elizabeth Lev, raised for me some very important points, to keep in mind as we follow the latest reporting on sexual abuse by clergy, and mishandling of these cases by the Church: . . . After the...

"Stealing from Churches"

Posted on March 27, 2010
A wonderful essay, by Roger Scruton (HT:Rod Dreher). The essay, Dreher writes, is a sketch of two deeply humane Catholic believers who made an enormous impression on the atheist Scruton: a Monsignor Alfred Gilbey, an aristocratic Englishman and popular old-school...

Notre Dame Right to Life Conference

Posted on March 27, 2010
Spread the word! 5th Annual Notre Dame Right to Life Conference Friday, April 9th-Saturday, April 10th, 2010 The keynote speaker will be Francis Cardinal George. Other speakers include George Weigel (Ethics and Public Policy Center), Joan Lewis (EWTN), Father Thomas...

Jody Bottum's concern about the new health-insurance law

Posted on March 27, 2010
He writes, here: . . . The iniquitous distribution of American medicine is a scandal, but even the incomplete moves of the current plan create a system that no future bureaucracy will be able to resist using for social engineering....

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Understand?

Posted on March 27, 2010
In 1949, Wittgenstein wrote the following:" The older I grow the more I realize how terribly difficult it is for people to understand each other, and I think that what misleads one is the fact that they all look so...

Media Attention to Sex Abuse Crisis

Posted on March 27, 2010
Several of our recent MOJ posts have addressed the recent media coverage of the sex abuse crisis. Although I agree with Rick that John Allen's piece does a good job in helping us keep perspective, I am far less persuaded...

Mirror of Justice: Back to Basics

Posted on March 27, 2010
My previous post, regarding the anniversary of Pope John Paul II's death, got me interested in digging even further back into the vault. Here is Mark Sargent's inaugural "welcome" post, that went up on Feb. 3, 2004: Welcome to Mirror...

Pope John Paul II

Posted on March 27, 2010
We are approaching the fifth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II (the late Holy Father died on April 2, 2005). I was thinking about this, and so went back and read a bunch of our posts from...

Health Care Reform (3): Fantasies About Spending, Revenues, and Economic Forecasts

Posted on March 26, 2010
[This is the third in a series. You can view the full series on one page here.] My apprehension about the future of this country as it is now being reshaped by the current administration and congressional leadership was well-expressed...

Reply to John Schwenkler

Posted on March 26, 2010
John Schwenkler evidently thinks that my recent comment on "moral incoherence" was directed at him. It wasn't. It was directed at Vice President Joe Biden, Senators Mark Begich, Christopher Dodd, Ted Kaufman, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Mary Landrieu, Barbara Mikulski,...

A Catholic law prof and MOJ reader weighs in

Posted on March 26, 2010
I don't read the Washington Post. This morning, an MOJ reader sent me a message and a column from today?s WP. The reader's message: "A question that should be put to every participant of the MOJ blog, to which no...

Published on Commonweal magazine

Posted on March 26, 2010
Published on Commonweal magazine (http://commonwealmagazine.org) Crying Wolf Created 03/16/2010 - 3:58pm The Editors The health-care-reform bill passed despite the efforts of conservative lobbying groups, most of which are opposed to reform for other reasons, and the United States Conference of...

On Being a Burden to One's Family, Especially One's Spouse and Children

Posted on March 26, 2010
I thought this essay (here) by Bill May was particularly powerful. His reminder of our obligation to take up our cross daily is important as we get ready to begin Holy Week. Richard M.

Health Care Reform (4): The Political Sustainability of the Legislation is Undermined by Its Partisan Approach and Public Opposition

Posted on March 26, 2010
[This is the fourth in a series. You can view the full series on one page here.] Understandably anxious about having passed a narrowly partisan bill ? steered through by an unpopular congressional leadership and signed by an unpopular president...

Catholic Stewardship, Deficit Spending, and "The National Debt Road Trip"

Posted on March 26, 2010
Around this time of year, we hear from our local bishop and our parish priest about the importance of "Stewardship." Of course, the kind of stewardship they are talking about relates to wise use of our personal financial resources and...

The abuse scandal deepens

Posted on March 25, 2010
The New York Times reports on new documents showing that Cardinal Ratziner failed to respond to an American bishop's requests that a priest who admitted molesting 200 deaf boys be defrocked. (The requests apparently were made years after the abuse...

Two Cheers for Bart Stupak

Posted on March 25, 2010
Departing for a moment from my series of posts on the health care reform legislation, I wanted to add a word of support for Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak, even though I think he stumbled at the finish line. I do...

Is the Church opposed to big government?

Posted on March 25, 2010
By increasing the government's sheer size and role in the provision of health care, does health care reform really violate Catholic teaching as a matter of principle? Greg writes: My opposition to the unwarranted emphasis on big government solutions in...

John Schwenkler responds to Robert George

Posted on March 25, 2010
Stating the Obvious March 25, 2010, 9:07 am Posted by John Schwenkler Remarking on my earlier post, Robert George writes: ? someone ?claiming the banner? of Catholicism who says, (1) ?the plight of poor people who do not have access...

Catholic Teaching and Big Government

Posted on March 25, 2010
I appreciate the comments, both posted to the Mirror of Justice and by email, on my continuing series on what I believe are the serious flaws in the health care legislation enacted this week, as well as my hopeful suggestion...

Health Care Reform (2): Yes, Virginia, This Really is the Gateway to a Government Take-over of Health Care

Posted on March 24, 2010
[This is the second post in a series. The first post is here.] Among other defenses of the health care legislation and responses to supposed exaggerations by its opponents, President Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress insist that the...

Read this! (Lifted from dotCommonweal)

Posted on March 24, 2010
Democrats and the Pro-Life Movement March 24, 2010, 2:00 pm Posted by John Schwenkler Ross Douthat has written an honest, charitable post that is the most thoughtful contribution I?ve so far seen a conservative commentator make to the debate over...

hope and cultural devastation

Posted on March 24, 2010
Among the many outstanding teachers I had in college, Jonathan Lear was one of the most interesting and intellectually exciting -- you never knew what he was going to say, but you knew you wanted to hear it. He made...

Oscar Romero

Posted on March 24, 2010
Today is the 30th anniversary of the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. On March 24, 1980, Romeo presided at a special evening mass. That evening he proclaimed from the Gospel of John that ?Unless a grain of wheat falls...

Health Care, Abortion, and Moral Incoherence

Posted on March 24, 2010
Calling attention to a recent column by Ross Douthat, John Schwenkler says: "Claiming the banner of church teaching when it comes to the protection of the unborn while ignoring the demands of that very same church concerning the adequate provision...

Now, Germany ...

Posted on March 23, 2010
Op-Ed: Benedict?s Fragile Church Can Germany?s Catholic Church survive its sex abuse scandal?

Health Care Reform: Not the Time for a Victory Lap

Posted on March 23, 2010
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, the Democratic Party, and our friends on the left side of the Mirror of Justice community understandably are in a celebratory mood. I wish that I could join them. As the House of Representatives enacted his...

Fr. Hesburgh, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Donnelly, and school choice

Posted on March 23, 2010
The news reports have it that Rep. Pelosi showed her political savvy by putting in a call to Fr. Hesburgh, asking him to deliver a "yes" vote by (my) Congressman, Joe Donnelly, a pro-life Democrat who had been, along with...

Pope Benedict's Letter to the Church in Ireland

Posted on March 23, 2010
Given the understandable attention paid to the health care debate, we have not had any conversations (of the MoJ sort, at least) about what appears to be another wave of scandal in the Church's seemingly never-ending struggle with the fallout...

Catholic film maker ridicules "fertilized egg police," calls for repeal of Hyde Amendment

Posted on March 23, 2010
The leftist film maker Michael Moore advertises himself as a Catholic. He makes rather a big deal out of it. Yesterday in an open letter congratulating himself for Bart Stupak's capitulation, he revealed with clarity his contempt for the sanctity...

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