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Religious liberty and SSM in New Jersey

Posted on December 05, 2009
As MOJ readers are probably aware, Tom Berg and I, along with several other law professors -- experts in religious freedom and family law -- have submitted letters to legislators and other political leaders in several jurisdictions that are considering...

Back to the debate about healthcare reform

Posted on December 05, 2009
Robby is right, of course: our judgments on this important issue should be informed. Here's what Nobel economist Paul Krugman had to say yesterday about the proposed healthcare reform: Some background: Long-term fiscal projections for the United States paint a...

Are crisis pregnancy centers deceptive?

Posted on December 04, 2009
I've received some helpful comments in response to my earlier questions. Matt Bowman writes: CPCs aren't deceptive and . . . the purpose of the law is to give the impression that they are to good people like yourself. But...

"Constitution in 2020" video

Posted on December 04, 2009
The streaming video from the "Constitution in 2020" conference is now up. I participated in a panel (along with MOJ-friend Paul Horwitz) on "Individual Rights", and talked about the importance of institutions -- especially religious institutions -- in the infrastructure...

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A Different Voice Regarding the Apostolic Visitation

Posted on December 04, 2009
For some time several contributors, including yours truly, have addressed the Apostolic Visitation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and associated religious communities. I understand that a new website group, Sisters Supporting Apostolic Visitation, has been formed...

Another view on same-sex unions ... by the former Republican governor of New Jersey

Posted on December 04, 2009
It's Not the State's Role to Define Marriage NJ.com Christine Todd Whitman November 29, 2009 What does government have to do with marriage? I was brought up to believe that we had a constitutional separation between church and state --...

The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment: "Arbitrary and Capricious"?

Posted on December 04, 2009
"Is selective empathy better than no empathy at all?" That's one of the questions Linda Greenhouse, former NYT Supreme Court correspondent, asks in her troubling reflection on a case decided by the Supreme Court this week. Well worth reading, here.

Happy Repeal Day!

Posted on December 04, 2009
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the undoing of that famously flawed "progressive" (and anti-Catholic) effort at social engineering. Happy Repeal Day!

Cardinal--and former New York Archbishop--Egan and the sex abuse scandal

Posted on December 03, 2009
NYT, 12/3/09 In Egan?s Depositions, a New View of a Sex Scandal By PAUL VITELLO The deposition was in its fifth grueling hour. The lawyer and the witness had dueled over the meaning of common words, about whether an executive...

Our new art

Posted on December 03, 2009
The lovely images of the Blessed Mother that now appear on this blog's banner appear courtesy of our friends at Villanova, where they are enjoying a beautiful new building and chapel. The chapel's stained-glass window was designed by Fr. Richard...

Are crisis pregnancy centers deceptive? Is that OK?

Posted on December 03, 2009
The Baltimore City Council is requiring crisis pregnancy centers to put up signs making clear that they do not provide abortions or birth control. I do not support such a mandate from the government, but I do wonder, should crisis...

ABA Journal Top 100

Posted on December 03, 2009
Mirror of Justice is among the ABA Journal's "Top 100" law-blogs -- more specifically, it's one of the 15 listed "legal theory" blogs on the list. You can vote for your favorites here. Please do!

Romney, religion, politics, etc.

Posted on December 03, 2009
A few days ago, my friend and colleague Dave Campbell (and some co-authors) published this piece in USA Today. He observed that Mitt Romney faced -- and will face again, in 2012 -- "a major obstacle that should concern all...

"Reminding Caesar of God's Existence": An Interview with Robby George

Posted on December 03, 2009
A few days ago, a few of us noted the "Manhattan Declaration." At National Review, Kathryn Lopez has this interview with our own Robby George, one of the Declaration's co-authors.

A few thoughts on Prof. Kaveny's "Clashes of Conscience"

Posted on December 02, 2009
Thanks to Michael P. for linking to my Notre Dame colleague Cathy Kaveny's timely and thought-provoking Washington Post op-ed. I am not entirely sure what I think about Cathy's observation that "you don't win the minds and hearts of ordinary...

Yet another former student of mine, ...

Posted on December 02, 2009
... this one--Cathy Kaveny--well known to many MOJers, has just published something of interest to MOJers, namely, the following op-ed. (Cathy was a student in a course I co-taught with Robin Lovin at the University of Chicago Divinity School back...

Further complications

Posted on December 02, 2009
Yes, Michael, thanks. I thought it was the case that he may have entered the Church. Thus I was all the more intrigued and mystified by his 2005 essay published in the New Humanist. It makes some of the matters...

The world is complicated . . .

Posted on December 02, 2009
When I was in law school, I became friendly with a Unitarian minister--a really impressive guy--who was willing to baptize in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, believed in the real presence of Christ in the eucharist,...

"Third, as his Wake Forest bio states, he has a horse in the race, so to speak."

Posted on December 01, 2009
Yes, well, don't we all, Robert, don't we all. You may be interested to learn: Shannon Gilreath is a convert to Roman Catholicism. The world is complicated, isn't it?

Another interesting article on closer examination

Posted on December 01, 2009
Thanks to Michael P. for bringing to our attention Shannon Gilreath?s article ?Not a Moral Issue: Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty.? Unlike Mr. Gilreath who cannot make the distinction between ?religious objections to interracial marriage, as well as religious justification...

Another article (of interest to MOJers) by a former student of mine

Posted on December 01, 2009
Yesterday I linked to an article by a former student (Northwestern Law). Today I link to an article by another former student (Wake Law), who is now on the faculty at Wake Law: "Not a Moral Issue: Same-Sex Marriage and...

Reading of interest to MOJers, Part 753

Posted on December 01, 2009
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4 (2009), pp. 729?755 Faith in the Future: Sexuality, Religion and the Public Sphere CARL F. STYCHIN Abstract?The clash between religious freedom and equality for lesbians and gay men has become a...

mental reservation

Posted on December 01, 2009
Here is a short piece by moral theologian Mark Latkovic on mental reservation. Here. This is an issue that deserves more attention. The practice of mental reservation is widespread and probably explains why one encounters the manipulative use of language...

Judge Noonan nails it

Posted on December 01, 2009
Here's Judge John Noonan, writing a few months ago in the Canyon Ferry Road Baptist Church case: An unregulated, unregistered press is important to our democracy. So are unregulated unregistered churches. Churches have played an important ? no, an essential...

Football and philosophy

Posted on December 01, 2009
From Ivan Maisel's Three Point Stance: It?s important that Notre Dame remain relevant in college football, not only for history and tradition, but because Notre Dame still believes that high academic standards and winning can co-exist. Asked Monday if it?s...

Equivocation

Posted on December 01, 2009
Several months ago, America magazine published this review of what looks to be a very interesting play, about the (so-called) Gunpowder Plot, Henry Garnet, S.J., etc. The play, Equivocation, is currently running at California's Geffen Playhouse. It will also be...

A response to Patrick Brennan on authority in the Church

Posted on December 01, 2009
[MOJ friend Gerry Whyte--a member of the law faculty, and former dean of the law faculty, at Trinity College Dublin--sent me the following message this morning:] I would like, from the perspective of an Irish Catholic, to respond to Patrick...

Aidan O'Neill on the Italian crucifix case

Posted on December 01, 2009
MOJ readers are probably familiar with Aidan O'Neill and his work. He was kind enough to send me, a few days ago, some thoughts of his regarding the recent decision by the European Court of Human Rights in Lautsi v....

Amy Gutmann and the President's Bioethics Commission

Posted on December 01, 2009
Michael P. called our attention, a few days ago, to the President's creation of a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, and also to his appointment of Amy Gutmann to serve as Chair of the Commission. In...

The larger context for the debate about healthcare reform

Posted on November 30, 2009
There *is* a larger context--and Catholics should understand that there is a larger context at least as well as anyone. What is that larger context? For a part of the answer--an important part--read Tony Judt's new, fine essay, What Is...

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