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A Different Kind of Liberal

Posted on August 31, 2009
Earlier this month, John Breen noted that the New York Times in its obituary for Eunice Kennedy Shriver, as well as the Washington Post obituary linked by Rick Garnett (here), had conspicuously neglected even to mention that she had been...

symposium on Kraynak

Posted on August 31, 2009
The Catholic Social Science Review published a very interesting symposium (here, see volume 9 (2004)) on Robert Kraynak's book Christian Faith and Modern Democracy. That book and the symposium take up some of the questions raised by Rob in his...

Conscience at Fordham

Posted on August 31, 2009
A while back I blogged about a lovely evening I spent at Fordham engaged in a rollicking (and eyebrow-raising) debate about conscience with Marc Stern, Nadine Strossen, and Doug Kmiec. A couple of readers had asked if a transcript of...

What does the Christian belief in human dignity owe to Kant?

Posted on August 30, 2009
In his essay, Made in the Image of God: The Christian View of Human Dignity and Poltical Order, Colgate poli sci prof Robert Kraynak writes that Kantian philosophy seems to match most closely the contemporary Christian concern for the rights...

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Mark Stricherz: How Will the Church Mark the Passing of Teddy Kennedy ? Both of Them?

Posted on August 29, 2009
I strongly encourage everyone to read Mark Stricherz?s essay at True/Slant entitled Good Teddy Kennedy, Bad Teddy Kennedy. In the piece, Mark provides a balanced retrospective on Senator Kennedy: his love for his Senate colleagues and devotion to his children...

Ted Kennedy's Humanity

Posted on August 29, 2009
By E. J. Dionne Commonweal (web only) August 27, 2009 WASHINGTON ? Ted Kennedy was treasured by liberals, loved by many of his conservative colleagues, revered by African-Americans and Latinos, respected by hard-bitten political bosses, admired by students of the...

Discussing Kennedy and His Legacy

Posted on August 29, 2009
I am truly sorry that Steve Shiffrin finds a discussion of Senator Kennedy's legacy -- including noting lost opportunities -- to be insensitive. But I do think his description of the two postings here on Mirrror of Justice as "cold-blooded"...

Ted Kennedy

Posted on August 29, 2009
Here and elsewhere, in the period after his death and before his funeral while many are mourning, Ted Kennedy has been judged in a cold-blooded way. To do so at this time seems insensitive ? at least to me.

Hey, Guys, let's not idolatrousize the magisterium, okay?

Posted on August 28, 2009
The issue is not whether rejecting the teaching will lead to some un-weaving (of magisterial authority?), but whether the teaching is true or false. In my judgment, it is false. See, e.g., Brian K. Blount, ?Reading and Understanding the New...

Interested in the debate about health care reform?

Posted on August 28, 2009
Who among us isn't?! Well, then, read this informative, interesting story about the bishops and the debate, which appears on the front page of this morning's New York Times, here.

Is it possible to protect our kids and human dignity?

Posted on August 28, 2009
The story of Jaycee Dougard is heart-breaking and, especially for parents of young children, a source of intense anxiety. It also will shape the debate over how we treat convicted sex offenders. This morning I saw one law enforcement expert...

Kennedy the Catholic

Posted on August 28, 2009
Rev. Robert A. Sirico writes about Senator Kennedy?s passing and about his personal encounter with ?arguably the most prominent Catholic layman in the country, scion of the most prominent Catholic family, perhaps, in U.S. history.? Herewith a sample of Father...

Another Reader's Thoughts on Church Teaching, Christian Doctrine, and Sexual Morality

Posted on August 27, 2009
Another Mirror of Justice reader, active in Catholic Church work, responds on this thread and in particular response to my post, which I had concluded by asking: "Might the surgery necessary to excise moral teaching on sexual relationships from the...

Is religious liberty about inclusion by the state or competition with the state?

Posted on August 27, 2009
Toronto law profs Ayelet Shachar and Ran Hirschi have posted their paper, "The New Wall of Separation: Permitting Diversity, Restricting Competition." From the abstract: In recent years, the specter of litigants turning to religious or customary sources of law as...

Obama: A Vatican II President?

Posted on August 26, 2009
That's what Notre Dame theologian Fr. Richard McBrien seems to suggest, here. I wonder whether the MOJ bloggers who are "evangelical" Catholics (you know who you are!) will agree ... "Evangelical" bloggers? "Vatican II bloggers? Hmm ...

Vatican II?Type People (including politicians [including Presidents])

Posted on August 26, 2009
Like Rick, I am not sure what a Vatican II?type politician, including the President, is. I think the rich teachings of the Church give us ample material from which the correct portrait of the public official who follows right reason...

A response to McBrien, and a question for Michael

Posted on August 26, 2009
In a recent op-ed (to which Michael P. linked recently), Fr. Richard McBrien suggests, Michael says, that President Obama is a "Vatican II President." (Actually, McBrien quotes church historian John O'Malley, S.J., who used that phrase.) I'm not sure what...

A Catholic position on health-care reform?

Posted on August 26, 2009
Re the editorial in the Aug. 15 issue of the [London] International Catholic Weekly, is there anyone out there who doesn't agree with this editorial? It seems abundantly clear to me that, regardless of one's position on other public issues,...

Another Response on Homosexuality and Church Teaching

Posted on August 26, 2009
I asked a close friend of mine who is in a committed homosexual relationship and who is a former priest what he thought of the exchanges between Greg and me on the issue of homosexuality and Christian teaching (here, here,...

A Response to Susan?s Post

Posted on August 26, 2009
I take this occasion to respond to Susan?s post entitled ?Another Response on Homosexuality and Church Teaching.? I appreciate her bringing to the attention of Mirror of Justice readers and contributors the thoughts of her close friend who is in...

More on the Integration of Teaching on Sexual Morality and the Foundations of Orthodox Christian Faith

Posted on August 25, 2009
Susan Stabile responds to my earlier posting and argues that it indeed is possible for a religious organization or denomination to ?pluck? the thread of traditional church teaching on the morality of same-sex sexual conduct without unraveling the rest of...

Obama at Notre Dame, redux

Posted on August 25, 2009
The cover of the new issue of America magazine says "Notre Dame revisited." The issue includes essays by my own bishop -- and the bishop in whose diocese the University of Notre Dame is located -- John D'arcy, and also...

"The Church and the University"

Posted on August 25, 2009
The August 31 edition of America has Bishop D'Arcy's "pastoral reflection on the controversy at Notre Dame." Read it here.

More On the Leadership Role of Laity

Posted on August 25, 2009
A reader had these comments on the lay leadership discussion: Like yourself, and Prof. Stabile, I'm puzzled by the lack of support for lay leadership of religious institutes that have established lay membership. I find it particularly puzzling in light...

Sin (or, the little black book)

Posted on August 25, 2009
Metallica's "Black Album" was very cool. So, I am confident, is my friend Gary Anderson's (Theology, Notre Dame) new (and very black) book, "Sin." What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this...

More on Homosexuality and Christian Faith

Posted on August 25, 2009
One reader offers these reactions to Greg's reply to my response to his original post on the ELCA's recent decision to allow parishes to allow noncelibate homosexualis in committed relationships to the pulpit: "I greatly appreciated your comment in response...

Another Reader's Response on Homosexuality and Christian Faith

Posted on August 25, 2009
Another MOJ reader offered this comment to Greg's reply to my response to his original post on the ELCA's recent decision to allow parishes to allow noncelibate homosexualis in committed relationships to the pulpit: "Sisk asks: And what Christian group...

Background from a Reader with Experience on the Lay Governance Issue

Posted on August 25, 2009
Here's some interesting background on this issue from a reader (who incidently has an interesting post on the geographical distribution of the 7 deadly sins at his blog): I have had some experience as a lay brother in a clerical...

Why Does Fostering a Strong Sense of Catholic Identity Require A Restrictive View of the Role of Lay Persons?

Posted on August 24, 2009
NCR reports today on the Vatican's decision to veto an election by the Maryknolls that would have resulted in a religious brother holding the position regional superior of the United States for the Maryknolls. The Vatican directed thata priest be...

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