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At Least We Know It?s An Elephant

Posted on May 20, 2009
Michael Perry is quite right to acknowledge and encourage everyone on MOJ to engage in the debate ? hopefully, a rigorous, respectful, and honest dialogue ? about the moral and legal status that should be accorded pre-born human beings. Michael...

Dan Philpott on ND graduation and ND Response event

Posted on May 20, 2009
My colleague, Dan Philpott (Pol. Sci.), has shared these typically thoughtful reflections on the graduation and protests, and also on the constructive, student-led event put on by ND Response: Today the controversies here at Notre Dame came to a head...

A Test of Seriousness (Five Questions by Michael Paulsen for President Obama)

Posted on May 20, 2009
In the aftermath of President's Obama's commencement address at Notre Dame, my University of St. Thomas colleague, Michael Stokes Paulsen, has posted a message at the Moral Accountability web site (here). Mike Paulsen poses five questions for the President "as...

NH Legislature Rejects Religious Exemptions, Likely Killing SSM Bill

Posted on May 20, 2009
The New Hampshore legislature has narrowly refused to accept the governor's demand for a meaningful (but still pretty modest) religious exemption in the state's same-sex-marriage bill. I'm waiting on further reports, but it sure looks like we have a case...

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The simple mistake at the root of our abortion disagreements

Posted on May 20, 2009
I disagree with Michael P. about the nature of the elephant in the room. I maintain that many or most of those who support abortion, and the destruction of embryos for science, in fact believe in the dignity and equality...

on abortion reduction as common ground

Posted on May 19, 2009
Reducing the numbers of those who need protection is no substitute for protecting those who need protection. Let's remember that as we accept the President's invitation to work together against abortion. Let's do everything legally possible under Roe and Casey...

on abortion reduction as common ground

Posted on May 19, 2009
Reducing the numbers of those who need protection is no substitute for protecting those who need protection.

Archbishop Chaput on Notre Dame and the issues that remain

Posted on May 19, 2009
Here is the Archbishop's statement from yesterday.

Cardinal Bernadin

Posted on May 19, 2009
Much has been made, in the post-Obama-at-ND commentary, of his (shrewd) invocation of Joseph Cardinal Bernadin. (See, for example, this piece, at the wonderful site, The Immanent Frame.) (Cardinal Bernadin, I remember, filed a powerful amicus curiae brief in the...

Further thoughts on conscience in light of the Notre Dame commencement

Posted on May 19, 2009
I am sure that many readers of the Mirror of Justice would concur that a lot has been said on these pages concerning the question of conscience?both from Catholic and other perspectives?over the recent past. I have offered my occasional...

The elephant in the room ...

Posted on May 19, 2009
... namely, the disagreement, no less among Catholics than among others--the intractable disagreement--not about the *biological* status of unborn human--yes, HUMAN--life at the successiive stages of its development, but about its *moral* status. In the United States (and elsewhere), there...

What does Catholic legal theory have to say about this:

Posted on May 19, 2009
"The 12-year-old faces a capital murder charge. He is not eligible for the death penalty but could face up to 40 years in prison if convicted." Here's the AP article, published today: HOUSTON (AP) -- A 12-year-old Texas boy accused...

Misusing Fr. Ted's Civil Rights experience

Posted on May 19, 2009
In the Immanent Frame piece to which Michael links below, Michele Dillon writes: Obama was clearly attentive to the cultural and geographical significance of the site of his speech and, fortunately for him, was able to use the words and...

More (great stuff) from Cardinal Bernadin

Posted on May 19, 2009
Here is a passage from Cardinal Bernadin's 1976 testimony before Congress in favor of the Human Life Amendment: I begin with a fundamental principle. Abortion is not wrong simply because the Catholic Church or any church says it is wrong....

Another, More Sympathetic View of Obama at Notre Dame ...

Posted on May 19, 2009
... over at The Immanent Frame, here.

Health Care Reform

Posted on May 18, 2009
According to a forthcoming Urban Institute study, in the absense of meaningful federal health care reform, "more than 60 million Americans could be uninsured within 10 years as insurance premiums increase to unsustainable levels for individuals, families, and businesses...

Response to Gibson

Posted on May 18, 2009
Over at the Commonweal blog, in his "Notre Dame Reax Roundup", David Gibson writes, in response to this post of mine: Rick Garnett at MOJ is disappointed in Judge Noonan: I admire Judge Noonan immensely, but wish ? on this...

Res Ipsa Loquitur

Posted on May 18, 2009
New York Times, May 19, 2009 Kept From a Dying Partner?s Bedside, by TARA PARKER-POPE When a loved one is in the hospital, you naturally want to be at the bedside. But what if the staff won?t allow it? That?s...

Obama's speech

Posted on May 17, 2009
It was a beautiful day -- for me, a sad one, but also, strangely, a somewhat hopeful one -- at Notre Dame. There will be, in the days to come, a lot said and written about the various events and...

Religious liberty & SSM: establishing a baseline

Posted on May 15, 2009
The New Hampshire governor has conditioned his support of the state's same-sex marriage bill on the inclusion of robust religious liberty protections, borrowing from a proposal made by our own Rick and Tom (along with three other law profs). As...

Finnis on Reason and Revelation, Universality and Particularity

Posted on May 15, 2009
MoJ-ers will be (or at least should be) interested in a new paper from John Finnis titled Reason, Revelation, Universality and Particularity in Ethics. Here's the abstract: This address to a philosophical conference on truth and faith in ethics engages...

Abortion poll numbers

Posted on May 15, 2009
It is striking that a majority of Americans consider themselves "pro-life" (though, like Rick, I'm not exactly sure what that means). Two aspects of the results are less cheery: no uptick in the percentage of Democrats identifying as "pro-life" and...

More Americans "pro-life"?

Posted on May 15, 2009
Gallup says so. I wonder -- is this really true? If so, what does it mean? What are the implications?

A critique of the modern university

Posted on May 15, 2009
Patrick Deneen has a bracing critique, here, of the modern "multiversity." It's something of a gut-check for people (like me) who have a lot invested in the "Catholic university" project. Are we on the wrong track entirely? (HT, again: Phil...

A powerful reflection on humanity, dependency, rights . . .

Posted on May 15, 2009
by James Matthew Wilson, at the (excellent) "Front Porch Republic" blog. Check it out. (HT: MOJ-friend Phil Bess).

Peripheral Catholics

Posted on May 14, 2009
For Damon Linker's strong reaction (in the New Republic) to Joseph Bottom's assertion (in the Weekly Standard) that "opposition to abortion is at the center of Catholic culture in this country," see http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/linker/default.aspx. Cathleen Kaveny links to this at dotcommonweal...

A new dean for St. John's

Posted on May 14, 2009
Congratulations to Michael Simons, who has been named dean at St. John's, succeeding the late Mary Daly. This should be especially welcome news for MoJers, as Mike has shown a keen interest in the ongoing articulation of what Catholic legal...

"A Crisis of Character"

Posted on May 14, 2009
Check out this essay, at Huffington Post, by Prof. Ronald Colombo, connecting the credit crisis (and related downers) with the development of (or failure to develop) the virtues. A taste: Unfortunately, since morality and virtue are developed over time, via...

"Learning from Ramsey"

Posted on May 14, 2009
One of my all-around favorite thinkers and writers, Gilbert Meilaender, is the 2009 recipient of the Paul Ramsey Award. Here are his remarks. A bit: All of us, Ramsey would have said, whatever our particular vocations, are part of this...

Mary G. Leary on responses to "sexting"

Posted on May 14, 2009
Prof. Leary (CUA) has an essay at Public Discourse that is worth reading.

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