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Greenawalt on conscience at BYU

Posted on February 26, 2010
Kent Greenawalt, not surprisingly, offered a treasure trove of thoughtful comments and questions about rights of conscience. He does not believe that individual religious claims of conscience should be privileged over non-religious claims, but he does believe that institutional claims...

Wilson on conscience at BYU

Posted on February 26, 2010
Today BYU is hosting a conference on rights of conscience in health care, and I'll try to post a bit as the presentations occur. (I won't go so far as to call it "live blogging," but it might be "somewhat...

A Catholic Justification for Waterboarding? No Way!

Posted on February 26, 2010
These days, when "liberal" Catholics and "conservative" Catholics agree about something, that's news ... of the "man bites dog" variety. More importantly, when LCs and CCs agree about something, that's the Holy Spirit speaking, yes? Read all about it in...

Ireland and the Church, con't

Posted on February 26, 2010
For those of you following this story, the commentary in this week's The Tablet is worth a read. Available in full here. An excerpt: Too little, too late, again Irish abuse scandal David Quinn The Irish hierarchy?s meeting with Pope...

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Andy Koppelman responds to Robby George

Posted on February 26, 2010
[This is Andy's post at Balkinization:] Friday, February 26, 2010 Koppelman vs. George on same-sex marriage Andrew Koppelman Prof. Robert George of Princeton, on the Mirror of Justice blog (a first rate blog of Catholic legal theory), responds here to...

The magistrium and bioethics

Posted on February 25, 2010
For those who may be interested: Lisa Fullam and William R. O'neill, S.J., "Bioethics and Public Policy," 71 Theological Studies 168 (2010). The abstract: Part I of this note assesses recent developments in embryonic stem cell research and HIV/AIDS treatment...

Thanks to Robby, a Note on Rescher, and More to Come

Posted on February 25, 2010
Hello All, I hesitate to write on the fly in connection with a subject so large and so fraught as that addressed by Robby in his post yesterday; but alas, notwithstanding my hurry at the moment I cannot resist the...

Christian realism and the terrorist threat

Posted on February 25, 2010
Lately I've been having an interesting, but ultimately depressing, convergence of knowledge inputs: I'm reading Dexter Filkins' The Forever War (if you're only going to read one book about the Iraq conflict, this should be the one), I'm plowing through...

We won't let you get married here (yet), but if you go there to get married and then come back here, we'll honor your marriage ...

Posted on February 25, 2010
February 24, 2010 Gay Marriage Makes Gain in Maryland ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) ? State agencies in Maryland should recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states until the legislature or courts decide otherwise, Maryland?s attorney general said Wednesday in a long-awaited...

Any Gay &/or Lesbian Catholics Out There Who Read This Blog?

Posted on February 25, 2010
If so, you especially may be interested in this piece, just published: Shannon Gilreath, "Not a Moral Issue: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty," 2010 llinois Law Review 205 (reviewing Douglas Laycock et al., Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty (2008))...

John Allen, the Biotech Revolution, and the Future Church

Posted on February 24, 2010
According to John Allen, one of the ten trends revolutionizing the Catholic Church is the advance of biotechnology. Allen?s proposition, as I understand it, is that unprecedented developments in reproductive technologies, genetic engineering, and the like will provoke and, indeed,...

"Are There Harms of Home Schooling?"

Posted on February 23, 2010
Many of us have posted, over the years, on the issue of "home schooling." (For example, here, here, and here). In my view, Chris Tollefsen's essay at Public Discourse, "Are There Harms of Home Schooling?", is a must-read (I say...

Angry about waste, bail-outs for the rich and spiraling debt?

Posted on February 23, 2010
"Crunch time has come on a question central to the nation?s future, where an acknowledgment is needed that, when it comes to health, we?re all in this together. Pooling the risk among everybody is the most efficient way to forge...

Blanshard and Vining

Posted on February 23, 2010
The only things the late Paul Blanshard and the very alive Joseph Vining have in common is that they are the subjects, respectively, of two new papers I have posted here and here. Needless to say, the former turns out...

Rep. Stupak to oppose Pres. Obama's recent health-insurance proposal

Posted on February 23, 2010
More here: Stupak explained his decision as follows: ?I was pleased to see that President Obama?s health care proposal did not include several of the sweetheart deals provided to select states in the Senate bill. Unfortunately, the president's proposal encompasses...

Theological Studies, Vol. 71, No. 1, March 2010

Posted on February 22, 2010
TS is a wonderful periodical, "published quarterly for the Society of Jesus in the United States". My issue arrived in today's mail, and three pieces caught my eye right away, one of them by MOJ's own Amy Uelmen: Amelia J....

Questions about the New Testament Canon

Posted on February 22, 2010
I am puzzled about the posture of Protestants (whatever their political views) and most liberal Catholics on the New Testament canon. To the chagrin of Elaine Pagels, for example, the Gospel of John is in the canon; the Gospel of...

Proselytism and Religious Freedom

Posted on February 22, 2010
This conference, at Georgetown's Berkley Center, should be excellent: In the context of a globalizing world marked by the freer flow of people and ideas, proselytism has become increasingly controversial. On March 3, 2010, the Berkley Center will sponsor a...

Memo to Elizabeth Schiltz

Posted on February 21, 2010
TO: Elizabeth Schiltz FROM: Michael Perry RE: Followup to earlier conversation DATE: February 21, 1010 Britain's love of the underdog triumphed Sunday as intimate war drama ''The Hurt Locker'' beat 3D spectacular ''Avatar'' to take six prizes, including best picture,...

Sadly, this happy story has a too-familiar ring to it ...

Posted on February 20, 2010
Patron saint of troublemakers James Martin SJ, August 07, 2009 The headlines read: Pope hopes excommunicated nun might become saint. Yes, you read that correctly. Mother Mary MacKillop, the foundress of the Australian-based Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred...

?? the crisis [that] extends far beyond Dublin to the heart of the Catholic Church ??

Posted on February 20, 2010
[After reading my post yesterday of Sr. Joan Chittister?s comments on the crisis in Irish Catholicism, MOJ friend (and former MOJ blogger) Greg Kalscheur, SJ, law prof at Boston College, sent me ?A Response to the Murphy Report? by Gerard...

Unborn children as "persons"

Posted on February 20, 2010
This looks interesting: Abstract When the action of a state agent results in the deprivation of the federal rights of any ?person? within the jurisdiction of the United States, that person may bring a civil action under 42 U.S.C. �...

More on Koppelman's paper

Posted on February 19, 2010
Patrick Lee and I will be publishing a response to Andy Koppelman's paper. Andy is a very smart and very good guy, and a worthy opponent. We believe we can show, however, that his declaration of victory over advocates of...

Neil Buchanan on Lobbying by Education Loan Lenders

Posted on February 19, 2010
Hello Once More, All, In connection with some of our recent back-and-forth on lobbying interests and Congress, I think today's post by Neil Buchanan over on Dorf is especially compelling. In case it's of interest to any of our MOJers...

Andrea Fay Friedman in NYT

Posted on February 19, 2010
Hello All, A propos Rick's and Elizabeth's posts in re the 'Family Guy' television program, here is an interview with the actress who apparently plays one of the parts in the program, in today's NYT: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/family-guy-voice-actor-says-palin-does-not-have-a-sense-of-humor/?no_interstitial...

Nothing About Us Without Us

Posted on February 19, 2010
A fundamental tenet of the contemporary disability rights platform is "self-advocacy" -- letting people with disabilities speak for themselves, rather than having others speak for them. (This is nicely captured in the slogan: "Nothing About Us Without Us...

Notre Dame's Frs. Hesburgh, Jenkins, and Scully urge Democrats not to kill school choice

Posted on February 19, 2010
This letter is available at education-researcher Jay Greene's blog: Dear Senator Durbin and Secretary Duncan, Warmest greetings from the University of Notre Dame. We hope this letter finds both of you well, and that the new year has been filled...

To Phil who wrote a comment on my needle exchange post

Posted on February 19, 2010
It appears that the only way to take up a commenter's offer is to seek his or her further contribution is by another post. There is no way to contact the commenter directly through TypePad. And so I write to...

Andrew Bessette, C.S.C., to be canonized

Posted on February 19, 2010
This is nice news for all of my friends in Holy Cross, the religious community honored with the care of the mission of the University of Notre Dame: Known popularly as the "miracle man of Montreal," Brother Andr� Bessette, C.S.C.-an...

A lamentation for my ancestral homeland

Posted on February 19, 2010
A divide that may not be bridged, by Sister Joan Chittister, NCR, 2/19/10 Being in Ireland as the country and the church continue the torturous process of resolving -- if that's possible -- the standoff between victims of sexual abuse...

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