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"Deadlier Sin of the Male"

Posted on March 28, 2009
Tina Beattie?s March 7, 2009 article in The Tablet (subscription required) makes the following observation: Among the leading bankers that have brought the British economy to its knees there are no women. Could it be that the tendency to the...

... and Jesus Wept

Posted on March 28, 2009
Jack Higgins in the Chicago Sun-Times:

Austin's Bishop on the Notre Dame situation

Posted on March 27, 2009
The "Aggie Catholics" blog reports that Austin bishop Gregory Aymond issued a statement regarding Notre Dame's decision to honor President Obama. Here is Bishop Aymond's statement: As was announced recently, the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind...

What would you fight for?

Posted on March 26, 2009
As MOJ readers know, I am a big fan of Notre Dame's "Alliance for Catholic Education." The other day, Fr. Tim Scully, the energy behind this great program, sent out, to former A.C.E. teachers and other friends of the program,...

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Response to Amy

Posted on March 26, 2009
I just realized that I failed to respond to Amy's question, here. After presenting, helpfully, different "models" for "engagement", she asked: My question is whether within the expanse of Catholic education in the United States we might want to encourage...

Duke v. Villanova

Posted on March 26, 2009
At times like this (if only to distract oneself from the painful task of reading the latest press release from the good people at my own University of Notre Dame), one turns, naturally, to college basketball. Tonight, my own Duke...

More on the poverty of housing for the poor in the USA

Posted on March 26, 2009
This is a disturbing story (here).

When is a health care provider "forced" to kill?

Posted on March 26, 2009
I agree with Richard that we need to have nuanced, substantive conversations about conscience claims when crafting conscience protections. Too often, "conscience" is invoked as some sort of trump card -- a "black box" that we must either accommodate or...

Is Obama attempting to meddle in internal Church affairs?

Posted on March 26, 2009
Over at The Catholic Thing, Austin Ruse has a column today in which he says, in part: A reliable source tells me that someone representing the Obama administration is about to put pressure on the papal nuncio to the United...

Obama at Notre Dame, Young Republicans, the Federalist Society, Etc.

Posted on March 26, 2009
Interesting post over at dotCommonweal (here). The first comment, by a Notre Dame law student, is interesting too.

Arizona Supreme Court on vouchers

Posted on March 26, 2009
More bad news on the school choice front. The Supreme Court of Arizona has held two state voucher programs unconstitutional under the state Constitution. Here. The programs involved scholarships for students with disabilities and scholarships for students in foster care...

The President's Council, on the stem-cell decision

Posted on March 26, 2009
Statement here.

An Open Letter to Rev. John Jenkins, C.S.C.

Posted on March 26, 2009
At the risk of repeating what others have already said about the ND decision to honor President Obama, I offer the following, which I prepared shortly after hearing the announcement, but which I did not complete until now. * *...

Protecting Conscience: Coming Back to Rob

Posted on March 26, 2009
I would put the burden on the employer to show that at the time of hiring, the employee had agreed to do what he/she now claims to be an unconscionable act of killing a human being. This admittedly is unfair...

Eduardo Penalver on the right to housing

Posted on March 25, 2009
Definitely worth reading: here.

Money, Power, the Financial Crisis and Disability Rights

Posted on March 25, 2009
Reacting to my post about President Obama's special olympics joke, a reader reflected that he "could not help being struck by the contrast between this comment and Sarah Palin's promise that parents of children with special needs will have an...

NDResponse

Posted on March 25, 2009
Here is a link to the website of an ad hoc umbrella organization called "ND Reponse," "a coalition of University-sponsored student groups [that] has been organized to lead student response." Here is a bit from their statement regarding the University's...

Mirror of Justice

Posted on March 25, 2009
MOJ is a name for Mary, but I did not know until today that it is also the title of a 1271 text by Guglielmus Durandus that became the basis for romano-canonical procedural law. That is, substantive law came in...

Response to Rob on Conscience

Posted on March 25, 2009
Rob seems to me to make or imply two good points: First, the government should protect conscience only where there is some form of "state action" involved. Second, not every violation of conscience is equally bad (e.g. forcing Muslim cab...

The state's obligation to protect conscience

Posted on March 25, 2009
Over at the always interesting Public Discourse, Christopher Tollefsen has posted a short essay explaining why the government has a duty to protect citizens' consciences, and why President Obama thus should not repeal the Bush Administration's rules forbidding recipients of...

Honoring President Obama at Notre Dame

Posted on March 24, 2009
With Amy, Rick, and Richard M., I am all for a university - especially a Catholic university - being a place of dialogue and exchange leading to growth in mutual understanding. John Paul the Great reminded us, with the theme...

Glendon and Abortion

Posted on March 24, 2009
I have a question to ask about the Notre Dame award to Mary Ann Glendon. I recall her excellent book Abortion and Divorce in Western Law as taking a relatively moderate approach to abortion. It opposed the U.S. approach, and,...

More on Models of Engagement

Posted on March 24, 2009
In response to Richard, sticking with the scenario of honors rather than an invitation speak or debate, more questions: let's add in the complexity of one person holding different stances on a variety of issues, some deeply attuned with Catholic...

Bishop D'arcy's statement

Posted on March 24, 2009
Available here. As one would expect, given the author, the statement is gracious, but also clear. My decision [not to attend graduation] is not an attack on anyone, but is in defense of the truth about human life. I have...

comment on models

Posted on March 24, 2009
Just a quick comment on Amy's post. I do think that dialogue is a good thing and so I think it entirely appropriate to have Peter Singer at a Catholic university to debate euthanasia or infanticide or to publish works...

Commencement Speakers: Models of Engagement with the Culture

Posted on March 24, 2009
I wonder if there are at least two (and perhaps more) different models (or emphases) at work in our conversation about commencement speakers: 1. Emphasize clarity (?purity?) so as to minimize confusion and engage the culture from a position of...

more on commencement speakers

Posted on March 24, 2009
I think this discussion about the matter of honorary degree recipients and commencement speakers is valuable. (I agree that the general issue of speakers is very different. I don't know of anyone who objects to having President Obama (or a...

Leslie Green on Law as a Means, not an End

Posted on March 24, 2009
Leslie Green of Oxford (who was my tutor there many long years ago) has posted a very interesting looking paper "Law as a Means." I'm inclined to think that in certain forms, the view that law is most fundamentally a...

Response to Steve re Mary Ann Glendon

Posted on March 24, 2009
Very quickly, too quickly: Mary Ann Glendon's work has sought to show the range of responses that an honest confrontation with abortion can bring about. Rather than pretending not to know whether the child is alive and human a la...

Naboth?s University and the Idea of a Catholic University

Posted on March 24, 2009
The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard. After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard. Going out about nine o?clock, he...

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