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Religiously grounded morality in our politics and law

Posted on December 09, 2009
In his most recent response to Chip Lupu, Robby George wrote: "The final paragraph of Chip's most recent comment presents liberalism's "old time religion" on the role of religion and religiously informed moral judgment in public life and the formation...

Hockett to Capretta

Posted on December 09, 2009
Hello All, Many warm thanks to Robby for the kind thoughts on my earlier post, and for posting Mr. Capretta's reactions thereto. I don't think that Mr. Capretta has managed to respond to the questions I directed to Dr. K,...

conference on rights of conscience in health care

Posted on December 09, 2009
With all the discussion about conscience, I thought I'd mention an upcoming conference entitled "The Future of Rights of Conscience in Health Care: Legal and Ethical Perspectives." The conference, which is co-sponsored by University Faculty for Life, Ave Maria School...

Healthcare reform and undocumented immigrants: Cardinal Mahony speaks

Posted on December 08, 2009
NYT, 12/8/09 Op-Ed Contributor Coverage Without Borders By ROGER MAHONY LOS ANGELES AS the leaders of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops noted last month, the current health care reform bills in Congress are fundamentally flawed because they fall...

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Personal Autonomy and Religious Law

Posted on December 08, 2009
Another paper of possible interest, this one by Farrah Ahmed: The ?millet? and 'personal law' systems, found in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia and Israel, are long-standing models of state accommodation of religious norms in family...

Culture warriors?

Posted on December 08, 2009
Are those who work prudently and persistently "to impress the divine law on the affairs of the earthly city" culture warriors? The task in the quotation marks is one the Second Vatican Council assigns to the laity. (See Gaudium et...

"Exposing the Underground Establishment Clause" in the abortion decisions

Posted on December 08, 2009
Justin Murray has posted a paper on SSRN that might be of interest to readers. Here is the abstract: In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court held that women have a constitutional right to abortion based on the Due Process...

Paul Horwitz on the NYT's error

Posted on December 08, 2009
MOJ-friend Paul Horwitz writes: Professor George, writing about a reporter's (serious) error in a story quoting Chip Lupu, says that the reporter "manufacure[d]" the quote from Lupu "in order to present him as impugning other people's motives." He adds that...

Response to Kaveny on framing, "culture wars", etc.

Posted on December 08, 2009
My down-the-hall Notre Dame colleague Cathy Kaveny says that an earlier blog of mine shows that I have "too much energy." If only! (Readers familiar with Cathy's up-to-the-minute Colbert-blogging will know that hers is high praise.) I'm glad that Cathy...

James Capretta responds to Bob Hockett on health care legisaltion

Posted on December 08, 2009
A little whle back, Bob Hockett helpfully offered a spirited defense of the proposed health care legislation favored by most congressional Democrats against Charles Krauthammer's scathing criticisms. James Capretta, a health care policy specialist at the Ethics and Public Policy...

Robby responds to Chip (again)

Posted on December 08, 2009
I don't want to be too rough on Chip Lupu, but things get curiouser and curiouser, don't they? Let's review the history. A seasoned New York Times reporter quotes Chip making an accusation that impugns the motives of people whose...

More on Cathy Kaveny's Argument (c) re. Conscience

Posted on December 08, 2009
I'd like to second Bob Hockett in arguing that there's more to what Cathy labels argument (c) for accommodation of conscience than she gives it credit. Cathy writes: c. You could make an analogy to the Americans with Disabilities Act....

Hastings and the Christian Legal Society

Posted on December 08, 2009
Just a few points to add to Tom's brief description of the case. The Christian Legal Society and any other student organization (even though not "recognized") is permitted to have access to the classrooms for meetings and the like, but...

"The Pro-Life Movement and Obama?s New Bioethics Commission"

Posted on December 08, 2009
Promising blog. Thanks, Rob. Interesting post, here.

"No Hidden Magenta" (new blog)

Posted on December 08, 2009
Fordham theology prof Charles Camosy's new blog, "No Hidden Magenta: Bridging the Polarized Gap Between 'Red and Blue State' Groupthink," is worth checking out. Early posts address health care reform, abortion, and President Obama's new Bioethics Commission.

Paul Horwitz and reporters' errors

Posted on December 08, 2009
No, no, no, no, no. No I did NOT say that no one would disagree with me about whether the NYT reporter manufactured a quote or did so in order to present Professor Lupu as impugning other people's motives. What...

Cardinal Pell on Religion, Human Rights, and Policy

Posted on December 08, 2009
Here's Australia's Cardinal George Pell, speaking at a recent conference in Sydney. Cardinal Pell is concerned (with good reason, it appears) about an ongoing investigation by that country's Human Rights Commission into the freedom of religion and, more specifically, "the...

Cathy Kaveny on "Conscience and Culture Wars -- and Lawyers" (and on Rick Garnett too)

Posted on December 07, 2009
Read it over at dotCommonweal. As of now, there are 53 comments!

Christianity in contemporary Europe

Posted on December 07, 2009
[Thanks to MOJ friend Pasquale Annicchino for this.] from the December 05, 2009 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1205/p09s02-coop.html Christianity in Europe: A part of or apart from culture? The Swiss minaret ban and the crucifix decision in Europe illustrate the disconnect between...

Notre Dame's Fr. McBrien on the state of the Catholic Church today

Posted on December 07, 2009
Fr. McBrien writes: If anyone wonders why the Catholic church presents such a different face to the world and to the Body of Christ today in comparison with the world and the church of the 1960s and 1970s, we need...

Quick Point on Cathy Kaveny's Observation

Posted on December 07, 2009
Hello All, I've been out of town and away from the present conversation, and am just now catching up. (More on the interesting conference that had me away in a subsequent post presently.) I do think I have a quick...

Cathy Kaveny comments (with a question for Robby) in the wake of the Robby-Chip to-and-fro

Posted on December 07, 2009
[Cathy writes:] I read the interchange between Robby and Chip a couple of times, with an increasing sense of disquiet. Finally, I realized it is because the discussion is running together two distinct situations, which seem to me to need...

Chip Lupu's reply to Robby George

Posted on December 07, 2009
[Chip has indicated that this will be his final comment in the to-and-fro with Robby.] There is no point in beating up on the New York Times. The reporter read to me in advance what she was attributing to me....

Cert Grant in Christian Legal Society Leadership-Selection case

Posted on December 07, 2009
See the press release from CLS and the Alliance Defense Fund. It is excellent news for organizational freedom that the Court is willing to look at overturning the Ninth Circuit decision in this case. The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed...

Robby replies to Chip (where's Fred MacMurray when you need him?)

Posted on December 07, 2009
I'm grateful to Chip Lupu for responding to Michael Perry's request for a comment on his post and my reply. I'm glad that Chip regrets the use of the word "fear-mongering" that, he says, was wrongly attributed to him by...

Taking a break from political controversy

Posted on December 07, 2009
[We can watch it on television December 29. If my Irish Catholic maternal grandmother--ever, and understandably in her time, insecure about the place of Catholics in the United States--were alive and posting this item, she would emphasize that Dave Brubeck...

"Fear-mongering" and conscience protection

Posted on December 06, 2009
So, Michael, let me get this straight. Chip Lupu accuses me and others of "fear-mongering," thus explicitly impugning our motives, without giving the slightest bit of evidence for the alleged insincerity of our expression of concerns about possible impositions on...

Chip Lupu responds to Robby George

Posted on December 06, 2009
[I sent my post and Robby's response to Chip Lupu for possible comment. Here is Chip's comment:] Thank you very much for sharing this exchange with me. It might surprise you (and perhaps make Robby feel better) to learn that...

Same-sex unions and religious freedom, con't

Posted on December 05, 2009
The Manhattan Declaration, which several posts here at MOJ concern, and which was co-authored by MOJer Robby George, states: ?We will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide...

The Center for American Progress pronounces on Catholicism

Posted on December 05, 2009
The Center for American Progress is a "progressive" think tank, which offers well executed, if predictably partisan talking points and messaging for left-leaning politicians and activists. (Not that there's anything wrong with that . . .) What is perhaps more...

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