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A bit of good news: Obama on charter schools

Posted on March 12, 2009
As an Obama supporter, I will readily admit that some of the policies and proclamations emerging from the White House over the past couple of weeks have not been confidence-building. One bright spot, though, is the President's announced intention to....

Newman again

Posted on March 12, 2009
As I've suggested before, I think Newman most accurately capture the "messiness" of the Church that Michael discusses in his post, in this quote from Apologia pro Vita Sua. It's a "large reformatory", a "training school", a "moral factory" --...

Cardinal Mahony to Lecture at Univ. Detroit Mercy

Posted on March 12, 2009
Friend of MOJ and Univ. Detroit Mercy law professor Andy Moore asked that I post the following announcement of what looks to be a very interesting and timely event> University of Detroit Mercy School of Law 11th McElroy Lecture on...

Guess it's not a "scientifically worthy" line of inquiry?

Posted on March 11, 2009
An MOJ reader and blogger in her own right brought to my attention the fact that Obama's Executive Order on stem cell research also revoked a Bush executive order directing funding for research for alternatives to embryonic stem cells. Here's...

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D.C. School Choice Program Killed

Posted on March 11, 2009
In the spending bill that President Obama will sign today, the D.C. voucher program will be effectively killed, as Democratic leaders in the House had desired. A proposed amendment in the Senate to strip this measure from the bill was...

Why Embryonic Stem Cell research?

Posted on March 11, 2009
I have wondered why funding for embryonic stem cell research is such a high priority for some, given its lack of positive results, the positive results of alternatives, and the serious ethical questions involved. Yesterday, Lisa linked to Denise Hunnell's...

Another Minnesota First -- State-sponsored Murabaha Financing

Posted on March 11, 2009
I'm teaching my favorite subject -- usury -- in my consumer law class right now, so this local news item struck me as particularly timely. Minnesota's state housing agency has apparently become the very first state agency to offer a...

Something to see at home and in peace

Posted on March 11, 2009
I always try to avoid opening and viewing videos people send me. They are usually a complete waste of time. "Just give me the reasoning in writing and skip the expressive sentiment", is what i feel. But this is an...

The Coming Clone Wars

Posted on March 11, 2009
In response to my Why Embryonic Stem Cell research? post, Ryan Anderson responded: I don?t think you?re off base on the cloning at all. If anything, it?s worse than you fear. He then quoted from his essay published two days...

Further consideration of the Statement of the 26

Posted on March 11, 2009
Mirror of Justice contributors and readers will recall some recent exchanges on this site concerning the statement of 26 Catholic leaders, theologians, and scholars (hereinafter ?the 26?). After taking some considerable time reflect on the words of their statement, I...

Today's the day . . . Don't kill school choice (and hope) in D.C.

Posted on March 10, 2009
Tell everyone you know, to write -- ASAP -- every Senator they can think of. The Senate is scheduled to vote this morning on Sen. Ensign's amendment (No. 615) which would save the D.C. voucher program. (If the Amendment does...

Connecticut bill tabled (for now)

Posted on March 10, 2009
What Rick Hills (correctly, I think) called "the Connecticut legislature's preposterously unconstitutional attack on Catholicism" appears to have been tabled, for now. And just in time, because the state's legislators were about to receive a sternly worded letter, written by...

Strike One for Obama

Posted on March 10, 2009
On the America blog, Michael Sean Winters writes: [T]he justifications for the decision coming from the administration are so obnoxious or pathetic or both that this decision can properly be labeled Strike One against Obama. * * * Those of...

The coming evangelical collapse

Posted on March 10, 2009
Michael Spencer's comment, with the above title, appeared today on the Christian Science Monitor website. Here is the opening: We are on the verge ? within 10 years ? of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow...

Saletan on "ideology" in the stem cell debate

Posted on March 10, 2009
Will Saletan, who often takes conservatives to task for their stance on sanctity-of-life issues, has some stinging words for those who are euphoric in the wake of President Obama's announcement on funding for embryonic stem-cell research: Think about what's being...

"Urban Form as Spiritual Allegory"

Posted on March 10, 2009
Longtime MOJ readers know that I'm a property / land-use / urban-law scholar trapped in a ConLaw teacher's body. On that note, I give you this post, "Urban Form as Spiritual Allegory," at a new (to me) and interesting blog,...

Brad Gregory on Science, Scientism, and Morality

Posted on March 10, 2009
Responding to my earlier post, criticizing Pres. Obama's stem-cell-research statement, Prof. Brad Gregory (history, Notre Dame), offers this: Not all disagreements are of a piece and not all diversity is desirable, as a moment?s reflection makes clear...

Utaaaahhhh!

Posted on March 10, 2009
Our LDS friends had it right. Utah "is the place."

Why does it have to be embryonic?

Posted on March 09, 2009
I am in complete agreement with Rick's concerns about President Obama's explanation for his new policy on stem-cell research. I continue to be frustrated and bewildered by these sorts of proclamations about how vital it is to press forward on...

President Obama's stem-cell-research statement

Posted on March 09, 2009
The order is here: "The Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary), through the Director of NIH, may support and conduct responsible, scientifically worthy human stem cell research, including human embryonic stem cell research, to the extent permitted by law...

The Connecticut proposal and the Freedom of the Church

Posted on March 09, 2009
The "Freedom of the Church" idea (for more, try this) is the subject of Prof. Howard Wasserman's very interesting post, at Prawfsblawg, on the Connecticut proposal. Check it out.

What Happens in Connecticut Matters Here

Posted on March 09, 2009
Archbishop Chaput on the anti-Catholic Connecticut legislation: To fellow Catholics of the Church in northern Colorado: One of the ironies of Catholic life is that, while outsiders often see the Church as a monolith, the opposite is true. Her real...

Follow-up on the (shockingly) unconstitutional Connecticut proposal

Posted on March 08, 2009
Fr. Araujo has already brought our attention to the proposed Bill 1098, which strikes me as reaching Alien & Sedition Acts-levels of obvious unconstitutionality. Bishop Lori's statement in opposition is here; Bishop Mansell's is here. This is serious business...

Pressure on the Church?yet again

Posted on March 08, 2009
On this past Friday, March 6, 2009, a bill was introduced into the Connecticut General Assembly, Raised Bill No. 1098, that would modify corporate laws relating to certain religious corporations. The bill can be viewed HERE . The title of...

Lenten Music

Posted on March 07, 2009
Rob and Mark haven't complained about Catholic church music in quite a while. But I presume they still don't like it. Here's an antidote, a Lenten gift from the Vatican, avaible through their Lenten web site. Vatican Offers Internet Lenten...

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