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A response to Rob, take two

Posted on May 07, 2009
Thanks to Rob and Steve for their thoughtful views. I will have to defer addressing Steve's posting until tomorrow. But I shall attempt to answer Rob's last posting here. I have tried to present arguments that are legal and meta-legal...

"A Reprieve on [D.C.] Vouchers"

Posted on May 07, 2009
The President supports extending the program's funding, but for current students only. The Washington Post comments here.

Clarification of my question to Fr. Araujo

Posted on May 07, 2009
To follow up on Fr. Araujo's response (and to underscore Steve's comment), I am not asking about how the Church should treat the poorly formed conscience. I am asking whether the conformity of one's conscience to Church teaching should be...

Question for Father Araujo on subjective conscience

Posted on May 07, 2009
I understand (but do not agree with) Father Araujo's apparent position that Catholics are required to follow Church teachings regardless of their subjective conscience. I am still not sure whether he thinks the quality of the formation of one's conscience...

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Discussion of SSM, civil unions, and religious liberty at the U of Chicago blog

Posted on May 07, 2009
As I mentioned the other day, Geof Stone, Martha Nussbaum, Doug Laycock, and others (including me) are having an online discussion about Stone's recent op-ed regarding civil-unions and religious liberty. Check out the latest posts by Geof, Doug, and me...

A response to Rob concerning his questions to me on conscience protection

Posted on May 07, 2009
Thank you, Rob, for your questions and comments on my posting regarding conscience and its protection that I posted yesterday. As I mentioned then, the Mirror of Justice is a web log dedicated to the development of Catholic legal theory,...

More on the Fleeting Nature of Life

Posted on May 07, 2009
Michael Scaperlanda?s sobering reminder of the fleeting nature of life was poignantly timely for me. I have been thinking along similar lines over the past couple of days. For me, this increased awareness of mortality began with a comedic error...

The Fleeting Nature of ...

Posted on May 07, 2009
For the past week my wife Maria and I have been in Athens (and now Italy) meeting our youngest at the end of her study abroad experience in Athens. The experience has given me time to reflect on the fleeting...

Obama cannot speak at Catholic prayer breakfast?

Posted on May 06, 2009
From the Washington Times: [T]he president passed up the fifth annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, scheduled for the Washington Hilton and expected to have 1,300 participants. Joe Cella, a spokesman for the effort, said the White House never asked for...

"Matters of Conscience" Event

Posted on May 06, 2009
Here's a link to the National Catholic Reporter's article which gives of nice snapshot of the Fordham Center for Religion and Culture "Matters of Conscience: When Moral Precepts Collide With Public Policy" discussion last week, featuring MOJ's own Rob Vischer,...

Kaveny on conscience

Posted on May 06, 2009
Thanks to Michael for flagging Cathy Kaveny's column and post on conscience. They are both well worth reading. Cathy raises three areas that warrant more discussion: First, Cathy makes a very important point on our tendency to view conscience through...

PB16's message to social scientists, on human rights

Posted on May 06, 2009
This is great. Seriously, check it out: Human rights became the reference point of a shared universal ethos ? at least at the level of aspiration ? for most of humankind. These rights have been ratified by almost every State...

David Brooks and Catholic Social Thought

Posted on May 06, 2009
I thought that David Brooks's column in yesterday's New York Times, discussing the Republican Party, resonated strongly with Catholic social thought. As soon as I finished reading it, I wondered what MOJers who self-identify as Republican would say about it...

Conscience Protections, con't

Posted on May 06, 2009
A couple of days ago I posted a link to Cathy Kaveny's article, in the new issue of Commonweal , on conscience protections (here). This morning Cathy continues the discussion with a post ("Conscience and Refusal") at dotCommonweal. Check it...

Question for Fr. Araujo on conscience

Posted on May 06, 2009
I suspect that Fr. Araujo and I come out on the same side on many of today's conscience debates, but we might get there from different starting points. He writes: If the person who claims conscientious objector status to either...

A response to Prof. Cathy Kaveny?s thoughts on conscience protection

Posted on May 06, 2009
I take this opportunity at the outset of this post to thank Michael Perry for drawing our attention to the two interesting, important, and thought-provoking Commonweal posts of Prof. Cathy Kaveny on conscience protection. Clearly, this issue of conscience protection...

"Conservative Catholics": Let Go!

Posted on May 06, 2009
[From one of many--very many!--NYT blogs:] May 6, 2009, 6:34 pm A Daughter Responds to a Mother?s Anger Over a Co-Ed Dorm Room By Jacques Steinberg In less than six hours, we?ve gotten more than 200 responses to our post...

A Few More Thoughts on Conscience Protection

Posted on May 06, 2009
I appreciate Cathy Kaveny's column and post and Rob's further post on conscience. A few thoughts. First, Cathy and Rob are absolutely right to emphasize that a commitment to conscience must be principled, not simply special pleading for, or a...

Now, the State of Maine ...

Posted on May 06, 2009
NYT, 5/6/09 Maine Governor Signs Same-Sex Marriage Bill By ABBY GOODNOUGH BOSTON ? Gov. John Baldacci of Maine on Wednesday signed a same-sex marriage bill passed by the State Legislature, saying he had reversed his position on such marriages after...

Nuance: A reply to Rob

Posted on May 05, 2009
Responding quickly to Rob's latest: I agree (and long have agreed) with Sr. Prejean that Texas's clemency-and-commutation procedures are a farce. Certainly, then-Gov. Bush could have worked to reform (but just as certainly had no interest in reforming) these procedures...

A Reader Responds to Richard McBrien

Posted on May 05, 2009
[I post this response with permission.] Dear Professor Perry, Re your post of Fr. Richard McBrien's "Intrinsic Evil" column to Mirror of Justice yesterday: -- I'm one of the people whom McBrien would likely dismiss as a "certain type of...

Can a pro-choice (or pro-death penalty) politician ever be honored by a Catholic university?

Posted on May 05, 2009
I am no expert on the death penalty in general, much less on the death penalty procedures in Texas, but not everyone agrees that the existence and statutory role of the pardons board minimizes George W. Bush's culpability for his...

SSM and religious liberty discussion at the University of Chicago blog

Posted on May 05, 2009
Geof Stone, Martha Nussbaum, Doug Laycock, and others (including me) are having an online discussion about Stone's recent op-ed regarding civil-unions and religious liberty. Check it out.

More on "double standards"

Posted on May 05, 2009
With respect to Fr. McBrien's piece -- to which Michael P. linked -- on the "double standard" he sees at work in some people's opposition to Notre Dame's decision to honor President Obama: Is it relevant that, in Texas (at...

Interesting Post by Eduardo Pe�alver at dotCommonweal

Posted on May 05, 2009
Check it out--the comments too--here.

Cathy Kaveny on Conscience Protections

Posted on May 04, 2009
In the latest issue of COMMONWEAL, here.

John Allen on the Vatican on Obama

Posted on May 04, 2009
News from NCRonline.org May 4, 2009 National Catholic Reporter This story has been posted to NCRonline.org Vatican's moderate line on Obama has deep roots Vatican balances competing interests on multiple fronts By John L. Allen Jr. When L'Osservatore Romano published...

What should a "mission course" look like at a Catholic law school?

Posted on May 04, 2009
Marc DeGirolami raises some important questions.

Religious faith and corporate law in the blawgosphere

Posted on May 04, 2009
Recently my colleague Lyman Johnson hosted a roundtable discussion on religious faith and corporate law here at St. Thomas. The discussion was lively and insightful, featuring contributions from our own Susan Stabile, along with David Skeel (Penn), Gordon Smith (BYU),...

Richard McBrien on Obama at Notre Dame -- and Double Standards

Posted on May 04, 2009
This is Father McBrien's column from NCR, 5/4/09: Intrinsic evil vs. run-of-the-mill evil by Richard P. McBrien [the Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame] As we approach the Notre Dame commencement ceremonies (on May 17) at...

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