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Skins

Posted on January 20, 2011
Finally, there's a legal angle so I can blog more about "Skins," MTV's infuriating new show that stakes out new territory in the realm of socially irresponsible programming for kids by portraying rampant drug use, casual sex, and general mayhem...

"The Moral Equivalent of War"

Posted on January 19, 2011
On the drive to work this morning, I heard that Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps, had died. The commentator, a biographer of the Kennedys, noted that the Peace Corps had its intellectual origins in an old essay...

Get "Linked In" with Catholic Lawyers

Posted on January 19, 2011
Here is a "Linked In" group for Catholic lawyers. The group is "under the patronage of St. Thomas More [and] exists to": Support Catholics with legal vocations in their careers Promote a Catholic perspective on the practice of law Promote...

Religious Freedom Day and the Governor of Alabama

Posted on January 19, 2011
Sunday was Religious Freedom Day and, as Charles Haynes argues in his syndicated column, religious freedom is mainly in trouble around the world. See here. Despite the Court's infamous decision in Employment Division v. Smith, religion is relatively free in...

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Hope

Posted on January 19, 2011
Does hope spring eternal? It should for the Christian. However, like most people, I can enter those dark moments when hope seems far distant. But there is reason to hope about hope. One of my current evening reading projects is...

God Bless the Muslims of Egypt

Posted on January 18, 2011
God bless the many Muslims of Egypt who, true to their word, made themselves "human shields" to protect their Coptic Christian fellow citizens during their celebration of Christmas. After the recent horrible murders of Christians in their nation, a large...

10,000 MOJ posts

Posted on January 18, 2011
This is the 10,000th blog post at Mirror of Justice. Here is the first (authored by our friend Mark Sargent), from Feb. 3, 2004 -- almost seven years, and more than 2.5 million site-visits, ago: Welcome to Mirror of Justice,...

Poetry and Prayer

Posted on January 18, 2011
Yesterday, I attended the last day of a very interesting conference, New York Encounter, in New York City organized by "Communion and Liberation" -- a Catholic organization founded in 1954 by the late Msgr. Luigi Giussani and devoted in part...

"America, America"

Posted on January 18, 2011
In a recent issue of First Things, James Nuechterlein had an interesting essay called "America, America" (subscription required). In the course of more general reflections about "patriotism", and echoing a line of argument that I associate with, among others, our...

Abortion in NYC: "Safe, legal, and (far from) rare?"

Posted on January 18, 2011
My wife and I moved to New York City while she was pregnant, and we were struck by a couple of incidents. At her first doctor's appointment, the receptionist asked upon check-in whether my wife planned to proceed with the...

The Rhode Island Governor, the Bishop, and Church-State Separation

Posted on January 18, 2011
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee held his inauguration day recently without a prayer service in order to honor the principle of church-state separation. Good for Governor Chafee in my view. But Bishop Thomas J. Tobin went ballistic. He purported not...

Hobbes?

Posted on January 18, 2011
I went straight from class this afternoon to hear the keynote address, by Angela Harris (Boalt Hall), that kicked off Villanova Law's annual weeklong celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. Harris spoke eloquently and inspiringly...

"The Agnostic Age"

Posted on January 17, 2011
I received in the mail today my own copy of MOJ-friend Paul Horwitz's new (OUP) book, "The Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution." Order yours today! As I wrote in my back-cover blurb: "The confident predictions of religion's decline...

King and the Image of God

Posted on January 17, 2011
As part of my current research, I've been reading a lot of books by and about Martin Luther King Jr. Many of these works are familiar to MoJ readers, but one that might have escaped your radar screens, but is...

"I have a dream"

Posted on January 17, 2011
A video, well worth watching today (and on other days, too).

The "lazy slander" of pro-lifers

Posted on January 17, 2011
"One of the most frequently repeated canards of the abortion debate is that pro-lifers really don?t care about life," writes Helen Alvare and others at Public Discourse. Certainly, we've all heard this charge in our public conversations. In this essay,...

"Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism"

Posted on January 17, 2011
This site, courtesy of the Witherspoon Institute, looks to be a useful and interesting resource. Welcome to the first phase of The Witherspoon Institute?s online center for Natural Law, Natural Rights, and American Constitutionalism. The project to create an online...

A tribute to Ralph McInerny

Posted on January 17, 2011
This tribute, by Prof. Chris Kaczor (Philosophy, Loyola-LA), to my former colleague, Ralph McInerny, is well worth reading. What a wonderful life. . . . His academic achievements are well known ? eight honorary doctorates, presidential and pontifical appointments, Gifford...

A conference of interest at Campbell

Posted on January 17, 2011
Conference Announcement: Liberalism, Constitutionalism, & Christianity at Campbell The Campbell Law Review presents its annual 2011 symposium: Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Christianity: Perspectives on the Influence of Christianity on Classical Liberal Legal Thought...

Garvey on "The Idea of a Catholic University"

Posted on January 17, 2011
Here's my friend and former colleague, John Garvey (now President of the Catholic University of America), writing in First Things, on the "Idea of a Catholic University." I like the conclusion especially: At Catholic universities we strive to provide students...

First Prize for the Loopiest Establishment Clause Theory (of the week)

Posted on January 15, 2011
It goes to the plaintiffs in Murray v. Geithner (h/t to the spectacular Religion Clause blog), whose claim was that the government bailout of AIG violated the Establishment Clause because AIG offers and apparently "has advertised itself as the market...

The Scarpa Conference at Villanova Law: Eskridge, Ferejohn, Finnis, and many others

Posted on January 15, 2011
Please mark your calendars for the next Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture to be held on Friday, February 11, 2011, at Villanova Law. As previously announced here, this year's version of the annual conference will be dedicated to...

Ooops!!

Posted on January 14, 2011
John Allen sets the record straight on the upcoming Discovery Channel reality show "The Exorcist Files" that I mentioned earlier. Still sounds interesting to me..... but Allen's article is even more interesting.

God, Suffering, Schillebeeckx, and Kung

Posted on January 14, 2011
Mary Catherine Hikert has an illuminating article about the beliefs and writings of the great theologian Edward Schillebeeckx in the National Catholic Reporter. Schillebeeckx's writings were instrumental in the leadup to Vatican II and he reshaped the study of Christology...

Brennan & Brewbaker on Christian Legal Thought

Posted on January 13, 2011
Last Saturday was the Annual Conference on Christian Legal Thought, cosponsored by Lumen Christi and the Law Professors' Christian Fellowship. I was only able to attend a portion of the day's events, but a real highlight was hearing about a...

Conscience (but mostly Rawls) in Pavia

Posted on January 13, 2011
This week I had the thoroughly enjoyable experience of participating in a symposium at the University of Pavia in Italy celebrating the publication of a new book on the law's treatment of religious and cultural diversity in Europe. The conversation...

An Argument One Does Not Often See

Posted on January 13, 2011
...can be found in this new paper by Paula Abrams, in which the endorsement test's reasonable observer standard is criticized on the grounds that it is insufficiently attentive to the Establishment Clause value of "inclusiveness." I've certainly seen critiques of...

Conscience rights at Vanderbilt

Posted on January 13, 2011
What is Vanderbilt University thinking? Either the nursing program is trying to scare away potential applicants who oppose abortion, or else the program desperately needs to hire someone new to draft its informational materials.

A.W.B. Simpson's "Legal Iconoclasts and Legal Ideals"

Posted on January 12, 2011
I recently heard of the passing of A.W.B. Simpson. I never had the chance to meet him, to my regret, as he was a writer whom I admired -- one could sense in him deep learning, but always lightly expressed,...

Arbp Dolan and abortion in New York

Posted on January 11, 2011
"In response to recent statistics revealing that 41 percent of pregnancies in New York City in 2009 ended in abortion, New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan reiterated the pledge of his predecessors to help any pregnant woman in need" (More...

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