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Catholic legal theory and judicial empathy

Posted on May 14, 2009
With President Obama's coming Supreme Court pick, there has been a lot of talk about judicial empathy. I found Orin Kerr's discussion of the concept to be very helpful. Here's an excerpt: I think there are two different ways to...

A strange take on church-state separation

Posted on May 13, 2009
First Things has the story: A public school in California brings in a lesbian to speak to the students about her homosexuality. Parents, finding out about it after the fact, ask the school to reveal to them what was said....

Gerson on Putnam on American Religion

Posted on May 13, 2009
I have not read any Harry Potter books, so I've never gotten to enjoy the midnight-bookstore-dress-up-as-Dumbledore scene, but I do get very excited for new Robert Putnam books, though I've never been able to inspire many followers to don bowling...

website comparison

Posted on May 12, 2009
Here is an effort to respond to Susan's good question about what I had in mind with my reference to the websites of what I take to be two very different religious communities. I should haven't taken the lazy way...

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?I was rooted in the story of Jesus, and it remains at my core, but I?ve also moved beyond Jesus.?

Posted on May 12, 2009
The quotation above is from an unnamed woman religious recounted in a retreat address by Sister Laurie Brink, O.P., available here. Brink goes on to say that those communities of women religious ?who embraced the spirit of renewal of the...

Vatican Examination of Women Religious

Posted on May 12, 2009
Re Richard's post: I may just be slower than others, but there was nothing in my quick perusal of the websites of the two communities to which he linked that gives me a clear indication of why the Vatican thinks...

women religious and the vatican

Posted on May 12, 2009
I thought I'd make a quick comment about Michael P.'s recent post. I think Cathlics owe a debt of gratitude to the communities of sisters who helped build the Church. I was taught by Ursuline Sisters and I am grateful...

Society for the Study of Cardinal Newman

Posted on May 12, 2009
A thoughtful and proactive MoJ reader has launched a website for the Society for the Study of Cardinal Newman. Here is the reader's explanation of the site's mission: Recent statements from a group operating under the name of the 'Cardinal...

Updates to Call for Papers on "Christian Realism and Public Life: Catholic and Protestant Perspectives"

Posted on May 12, 2009
I've made updates to the Call for Papers for this conference, to be held at St. Thomas in Minneapolis on November 20-21, 2009, and sponsored by the Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law, and Public Policy. Paper proposals are now...

Article on Religious-School Funding and Educational Pluralism

Posted on May 11, 2009
Apropos of the discussion between Steve and Rick, I've just posted a short article on SSRN, based on a talk concerning school funding that I gave to a Rome audience in February. Here's an abstract: The pattern of church-state relations...

Op-ed on Notre Dame and President Obama

Posted on May 11, 2009
Today, USA Today ran an op-ed of mine about the controversy surrounding Notre Dame's decision to give President Obama an honorary degree. A bit: Notre Dame's project is challenging and vulnerable, but it's also exciting and important ? and not...

Women Religious in the United States ... and the Vatican

Posted on May 11, 2009
[There are three women religious in my family: a cousin, an aunt, and a great aunt--all Dominican sisters. Only my aunt is still living. I doubt many MOJ readers have been following the important events to which Sandra Schneiders' communication,...

Richard McBrien on the leadership deficit in the Church

Posted on May 11, 2009
[From Fr. McBrien's column in NCR. For those who don't know: Fr. McBrien is the Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.] Something has changed since the election of John Paul II as Pope in 1978, namely,...

Georgetown's John Langan, SJ, on the Church's Credibility

Posted on May 11, 2009
[From an article in NCR:] Calling the Obama presidency a new moment in U.S. history, Jesuit Fr. John P. Langan of Georgetown University warned April 27 of a current ?three-way impasse? on abortion. He urged U.S. bishops seeking real change...

Rick's Op-ed and Dialogue in the Catholic Community

Posted on May 11, 2009
I was happy to see Michael Sean Winters link to Rick?s op-ed over at America Magazine?s group blog In All Things. In response to Rick?s comments MSW said the following: Readers will know where I stand on the controversy surrounding...

Response to Steve

Posted on May 10, 2009
With respect to Steve's post, confessing doubts about financial aid to religious education: The fact (assuming for now that it is a fact) that, in Europe, "the Church has been tied to unpopular regimes and its moral witness muffled. Conditions...

Doubts About Financial Aid to Religious Education

Posted on May 10, 2009
Rick tells us that we should all be pro choice on education (referring, of course, to state aid to Catholic schools in the form of vouchers). So the Church has thought in Europe (though there, I do not think the...

Gratitude and Ingratitude

Posted on May 09, 2009
As you know, Thursday I found myself on a beach 10 miles from our hotel with my wife and youngest child. We had no shoes (imagine me shoeless at the police station), no money, phone, doucmentation. We were in a...

Pope Benedict and the Disabled

Posted on May 09, 2009
Relevant to Michael S.'s recent posts on recognizing our own vulnerabilites, I find it striking that Pope Benedict's first stop on his pilgramage to the Holy Land was to Regina Pacis, a home in Amman, Jordan, for mentally- and physically...

Greg Sisk

Posted on May 09, 2009
I want to express my heartfelt condolences to Greg Sisk on his "virtual" demise (here). Long live--and, more importantly, well and truly live--Greg Sisk!

Peter Steinfels on Abortion and the Catholic Civil War ...

Posted on May 09, 2009
... in his Saturday "Beliefs" column in today's NYT: Roman Catholics? War Over Abortion By PETER STEINFELS Discord is nothing new for Roman Catholicism. But the controversy surrounding the appearance of President Obama at the University of Notre Dame?s commencement...

Archbishop Dolan is "proudly pro-choice" . . .

Posted on May 09, 2009
. . . on education (as he, and we all, should be).

Response to Rick

Posted on May 09, 2009
My response to Rick's question, in the immediately preceding post: I agree with you, Rick: Doug should tell us if, in his view, his constitutional philosophy has changed (as it certainly seems to have changed)--and if so, why it has...

"Kmiec" on "empathy"

Posted on May 09, 2009
No one could have had any doubt, of course, that an op-ed -- to which Michael P. linked recently -- enthusiastically validating President Obama's call for judges with "empathy" was in the offing from (the post-Romney-exit) Prof. Kmiec. The pre-Spring-of-2008...

Dependant Rational Animals

Posted on May 08, 2009
Today, most of us operate with the illusion that we are self-sufficient autonomous human beings. But life has a way of crashing in on us, sending us back again to the school of dependency. Sickness, financial difficulty, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes,...

Dependant Rational Animals

Empathy and the Supreme Court

Posted on May 08, 2009
In the new issue of America (5/11/09): Doug Kmiec, "The Case for Empathy: Why a much-maligned value is a crucial qualification for the Supreme Court" (here).

Protection for the "well formed" conscience

Posted on May 08, 2009
I do think the point of disagreement between Fr. Araujo and me is coming into focus. I do not think that our law's protection of conscience is based -- or should be based -- on whether the conscience in question...

My response to Steve

Posted on May 08, 2009
I thank Steve for his question and his patience in waiting for my response. It is clearly possible for the person who considers himself or herself Catholic to form conscience subjectively. But, as I have said before, this is not...

Angel or Demon? In the Vatican, Obama Is Both

Posted on May 08, 2009
[MOJ-friend and Trinity College Dublin law prof (and former dean) Gerry Whyte thought that some MOJ-readers might be interested in this:] "L'Osservatore Romano" praises him. Two prominent scholars of the pontifical academy of social sciences rail against him...

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