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Has the Vatican really rejected Obama's proposed ambassadors?

Posted on April 11, 2009
The Washington Times reported that the Vatican had rejected ambassadors put forward by Obama and the story was cited by one of our contributors. Apparently not so. David Gibson at dot.commonweal says:"Much of this sounded like jumping on the Obama-as-unpopular-with-Catholics...

From the USCCB, on HHS and conscience

Posted on April 11, 2009
Here.

The Servant of the Servants of God

Posted on April 10, 2009

John Allen on the Obama/ND Issue

Posted on April 10, 2009
John Allen's comments on ND's invitation to Obama strike me as extremely sensible.

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Easter Triduum

Posted on April 09, 2009
This evening begins the three day period referred to as the Easter Triduum. Those of us who are Catholics on this blog often disagree on any number of issues, as our posts make quite clear. But what we pray with...

An "apophatic" Christian?

Posted on April 09, 2009
Beware that pernicious idol, the anthropomorphized "God". (Cf. the Second Commandment.) Some have asked me what I meant when I described myself as an apophatic Christian. Something quite classically orthodox, actually. See Nicholas Lash, Theology for Pilgrims (Notre Dame 2008)...

Notre Dame as a symptom of a deeper malaise

Posted on April 09, 2009
Here's a very thoughtful commentary on the honors for Obama by a Notre Dame law student.

Studies on the Effects of Same-Sex Parentage on Children

Posted on April 09, 2009
With respect to the recent exchange of views on same-sex marriage and parenthood here, here, here and here, I agree that a through understanding of the facts should inform how the law is crafted, going forward. The problem, however, to...

Real-World Narrative Con't (Part 3)

Posted on April 09, 2009
[Petitioner presented as one of his expert witnesses] Dr . Michael Lamb, Professor of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England. Dr. Lamb spent 17 years as a senior research scientist at the National Institute of Child Health and....

Cathleen Kaveny's 2008 Santa Clara Lecture

Posted on April 09, 2009
[From the NDLS web site: A member of the Notre Dame Law School faculty since 1995, M. Cathleen Kaveny has held the John P. Murphy Foundation Chair in Law since 2001. A scholar who focuses on the relationship between law...

Tony Blair Speaks to Benedict XVI ...

Posted on April 09, 2009
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life April 8, 2009 Tony Blair tells the Pope: you're wrong on homosexuality by Ruth Gledhill The Times Online Tony Blair has challenged the "entrenched" attitudes of the Pope on homosexuality, and argued...

The 2009 Conference on Catholic Social Thought & the Law at Villanova

Posted on April 09, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS JOURNAL OF CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT Conference on Catholic Social Thought and Legal Education Villanova University School of Law September 26, 2009 Saint Ignatius of Loyola wrote in the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus in 1552 that...

A blessed Holy Week to all...

Posted on April 09, 2009
I join Susan in expressing gratitude to God for the gift of His son for us all. To all, a blessed Holy Week. As I put aside my academic duties after class today and assume my priestly duties beginning with...

Iowa's Family Values

Posted on April 09, 2009
By STEVEN W. THRASHER IF it weren?t for Iowa, my family may never have existed, and this gay, biracial New Yorker might never have been born. In 1958, when my mother, who was white, and father, who was black, wanted...

The Real-World Narrative Con't (Part 2)

Posted on April 08, 2009
[Again, one real-world narrative may be worth a thousand abstractions. Part 1 is here.] The Children presented Dr. David Brodzinsky, a Clinical and Developmental Psychologist from Oakland, California as an expert in child clinical psychology, developmental psychology with a specialization...

A response to Richard on non-validation

Posted on April 08, 2009
First, even if we assume that non-validation does not curtail liberty, it may discriminate. And, as it happens, a state's refusal to extend the benefit of law to same-sex unions *does* discriminate. Now, whether the discrimination is justified is a...

Non-Validation is not Prohibition

Posted on April 08, 2009
Let us all please stop speaking of legal non-recognition as a "ban" or as "forbidding" something. No limits are now placed on homosexual freedom to marry, in that same-sex unions are already completely legal everywhere in America. Like almost all...

George on SSM and body-self dualism

Posted on April 08, 2009
Robert George responds to our conversation on same-sex marriage as follows: I profoundly agree that [the SSM question] is not so simple or, at least, it is not simple in the way that people on the two sides seem to...

My favorite "lost" Catholic

Posted on April 08, 2009
My favorite "lost" Catholic at the moment is Holly Hunter's fictional character, Grace Hanadarko, in TNT's drama series "Saving Grace." The upcoming (next Monday) season finale addresses death penalty questions - Detective Grace Hanadarko and a death row inmate have...

Dover Air Force Base: The Return of the Dead

Posted on April 08, 2009
You may want to listen, here.

Capitalism and the Commodification of Children

Posted on April 08, 2009
Read this. And when you do, don't weep. Just ask yourself what the hell you plan to do about it. Here's an excerpt: Complicit, wittingly or unwittingly, with a politics defined by market power, the American public offers little resistance...

An interesting item, from BeliefNet ...

Posted on April 08, 2009
[HT: NYT online.] In response to the action of the Vermont legislature yesterday, Rob Dreher writes: It is increasingly obvious that the US Supreme Court is going to have to rule on this matter soon. It is an untenable situation...

a response to Michael P. on liberty

Posted on April 08, 2009
You are right, Michael, that i did not address the discrimination issue. The issue there is whether it makes sense to subsidize only potential parents (because of the strong state interest in the welfare of children) and, if so, how...

Subsidiarity and the Financial Crisis

Posted on April 07, 2009
Today's article of the day on the First Things "On the Square" site is my essay "Subsidiarity and the Financial Crisis." In it, I discuss one of the aspects of the debate about legislative responses to the financial crisis that...

If Women had been Bishops

Posted on April 07, 2009
I realize that the conversation has shifted to same sex marriage, but I'd like to get back to Michael P's original comments in connection with the recent NYT article about the clergy sexual abuse scandal: "[These are the men--the men!--whose...

President Obama striking out at the Vatican

Posted on April 07, 2009
This in the Washington Times today: The Vatican has quietly rejected at least three of President Obama's candidates to serve as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See because they support abortion, and the White House might be running out of...

I think this data is up to date and accurate ...

Posted on April 07, 2009
This data may be of interest. Please alert me to inaccuracies. As of April 2009, four states recognize same-sex marriage: Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Vermont; three states recognize same-sex unions (i.e., civil unions for same-sex couples): California, New Hampshire, and...

To continue ...

Posted on April 07, 2009
Yesterday, I posted what I referred to as a kind of "prolegomenon". Now, to continue. This is part one. More parts will follow in due course. We all know that a picture can be worth a thousand words (loathe as...

Gay Marriage and Religious Liberty

Posted on April 07, 2009
With the recent developments in Iowa and Vermont, gay marriage has now been instituted in four state supreme court decisions and one legislative vote (and civil unions are authorized in other states). One of the court decisions has been overturned...

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