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The Wages of Hate

Posted on June 12, 2009
That's the title of on online piece by Judith Warner in today's NYT. Some passages: Like Scott Roeder, the man charged in the shooting of the Wichita, Kan., doctor George Tiller nearly two weeks ago, James von Brunn, the white...

Breen on "Neutrality in Liberal Legal Theory and Catholic Social Thought"

Posted on June 11, 2009
I imagine someone has linked to John Breen's recent paper, "Neutrality in Liberal Legal Theory and Catholic Social Thought" but, even if someone has, the paper is worth (at least) two mentions. If you haven't read it yet, drop the...

What does Catholic legal theory have to say about this??!!!

Posted on June 11, 2009
NYT, June 11, 2009 Fla. Cop Suspended After Running Over Sunbather JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A rookie police officer has been suspended for seven days for running over a woman sunbathing on a north Florida beach. An internal affairs...

Call for Papers: "The Summons of Freedom"

Posted on June 10, 2009
The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture is putting together its annual Fall Conference. This year's theme is "The Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good." Here (Download Center CFP) is the call for papers. And here...

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"The Nature of a Catholic Law School"

Posted on June 10, 2009
It's an oldie but, I think,a goodie (Download St Ives Lecture): Prof. Steven Frankino's "St. Ives Day Lecture", from a while back, on "The Nature of a Catholic Law School."

Useful reading for those seeking "common ground" on abortion

Posted on June 10, 2009
This op-ed, by Ross Douthat, is, it seems to me, a useful reminder to those purporting to desire "common ground" and "dialogue" on abortion that: If abortion were returned to the democratic process, this landscape would change dramatically. Arguments about...

Catholic Judges and Justices, Recusal, Etc.

Posted on June 10, 2009
Two postings at dotCommonweal well worth reading, here and here. The titles of the posts: Historian?s verdict: Catholic justices can?t be trusted A Catholic Judge?s Response to a Motion To Recuse Himself

Against Agape as (Even the Highest Kind of) Self-Love

Posted on June 09, 2009
Rob quotes Josef Pieper (criticizing Anders Nygren) that "[t]he call for an utterly disinterested, unmotivated, sovereign agape love that wishes to receive nothing, that is purged of all selfish desire, simply rests upon a misunderstanding of man as he really...

Fr. Reese, Notre Dame, and academic freedom

Posted on June 09, 2009
With respect to the "Dog That Didn't Bark", and Fr. Reese's concluding paragraph: ?Whatever the cause of this presidential silence,? he concluded, ?it was shameful. The presidents owe Notre Dame and Fr. Jenkins an apology; they owe Catholic higher education...

The costs of blogging pseudonymously

Posted on June 09, 2009
If Michael proposes to blog, going forward, as "Rick Garnett," that's fine. But, I expect him to also sign over his Woodruff Chair money, his book royalties, and his cite-count stats. Pay up.

Torture in American Schools?

Posted on June 09, 2009
A recent James Taranto column in the WSJ reports that: Last month the Government Accountability Office issued a shocking report on "selected cases of death and abuse"--not at Guantanamo Bay or other detention facilities for terrorists, but at schools for...

David Gushee on white church-going Christians and torture

Posted on June 09, 2009
Gushee is distinguished university professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University. His "Christian's lament over the Pew torture poll" is worth reading, here. -- "Rick Garnett"

The Future of the Catholic Church in America

Posted on June 08, 2009
Reflecting on Fr. Cozzen's NCR article "The Church will submerge before any emergence, Cathy Kaveny, in a dotCommonweal post titled "A Generation or Two of Real Darkness" asks: "Are we basically headed toward a situation in which liberals and moderates...

The Dog That Didn't Bark

Posted on June 08, 2009
NCR, 6/8/09 The silence of the presidents By Richard McBrien Created Jun 08, 2009 Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., former editor-in-chief of America magazine, wrote an exceedingly important article for the National Catholic Reporter, May 29, on the silence of the...

Matthew 25:34-40

Posted on June 08, 2009
Sightings 6/8/09 I Was In Prison, But... -- Martin E. Marty Sightings files bulge with clippings and printouts having to do with religion and prisons. Every year I ?do? one of the sixty synod assemblies of our cosa nostra, the...

Blogging Pseudonymously

Posted on June 08, 2009
There's a raging controversy in the blogosphere about the ethics of blogging pseudonymously. Read about it here, in a post titled "The Outing of Publius". I've decided that from this point on, I'm going to blog pseudonymously at MOJ, under...

The Future of the Catholic Church in America?

Posted on June 07, 2009
Here's a grim view--by someone who should know. (Fr. Cozzens' view resonates powerfully with me.) And here are some interesting comments at dotCommonweal.

A New Kind of Catholic Democrat?

Posted on June 06, 2009
The Tablet June 6, 2009 A Catholic word in your ear, Mr PresidentMichael Sean Winters A new kind of Catholic Democrat is emerging in America?s corridors of power ? young, politically committed and often with the same community organising background...

Obama in Cairo

Posted on June 06, 2009
My esteemed colleague at Emory Law, and at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im, had this to say in The Guardian (U.K.) yesterday: Muslims Have to Change for Themselves Whatever one might have been...

Jesus Interrupted

Posted on June 05, 2009
I'm not a biblical scholar, but I'm fascinated by debates between biblical scholars. Bart Ehrman, Wheaton College grad turned agnostic, has been attracting a lot of attention (and readers) with his book, Jesus Interrupted. New Testament scholar Ben Witherington responds...

Lawyers and Vacations

Posted on June 04, 2009
Check out this brief ABA Journal piece, ?Vacation or Not, Lawyers Should Be Available via E-mail, Cleary Partner Says.? ?An ?out of office? auto-reply saying that an attorney is unavailable is acceptable only in rare circumstances, such as when a...

The Foundations of (Women's) Religious Life

Posted on June 04, 2009
If you're interested in the topic of women religious that was the subject of a recent flurry of posts, here's an interesting-looking book. It's called The Foundations of Religious Life: Revisiting the Vision, and consist of a collection of articles...

Habermas (or Michael Perry?)

Posted on June 03, 2009
You make the call. Either way, it's a good point: Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy . . .. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern...

Don't eat the seedcorn!

Posted on June 03, 2009
Sound advice, from Kenneth Anderson (American Univ.): As a believer in liberty and consent, I should greatly like to share Philip Bobbitt's hopes for the market-state. It does not take a conservative to wonder, however, whether this is enough to...

Massey on church autonomy

Posted on June 03, 2009
Calvin Massey has a new paper on church autonomy (here is the link). Abstract: When the Supreme Court decided Jones v. Wolf it required courts to use secular criteria to decide church property disputes, yet there remains considerable uncertainty about...

An important question about "family policy"

Posted on June 03, 2009
At "Front Porch Republic," Lew Daly asks, in this long, but very interesting, post: So the question I ask myself is this: is there a need and a desire for a family-centered politics that marries security-oriented economic progressivism with community-oriented...

The United States of New England (plus Iowa)

Posted on June 03, 2009
[Lest MOJ readers misunderstand this post, let me be clear: I support the recognition, by state legislatures, of same-sex marriage.] NYT June 4, 2009 New Hampshire Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage By ABBY GOODNOUGH BOSTON ? The New Hampshire Legislature approved revisions...

Elizabeth Lev on Obama?s Speech at Notre Dame

Posted on June 03, 2009
For a final post-script on the President?s speech at Notre Dame, I would encourage everyone to read Elizabeth Lev?s article, Obama Is No Uncle Tom, available here. She contrasts the simple but profound moral convictions of the main character from...

"Are Conscience Protections for Health Workers Endangered?"

Posted on June 02, 2009
Susan Stabile responds in America, here.

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