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Sightings 1/12/09Sex and Seminaries--

Posted on January 12, 2009
Sightings 1/12/09Sex and Seminaries-- Martin E. MartyDid you know that there is a Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice and Healing? Last Thursday, January 8, the Institute, together with Union Theological Seminary in New York, issued a fifty-two page report,...

Professor Kmiec's Response to Right Wing Bloggers

Posted on January 12, 2009
It appears at http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php3?id_article=2417 (subscription may be required). Professor Kmiec's response is quite forceful and wide-ranging. Among many other things, it discusses matters raised on this site including FOCA - he opposes it but denies there has ever been any...

Is Plan B different than other forms of birth control?

Posted on January 12, 2009
"Reader 1," who has defended the Vatican's seemingly confident assertion that Plan B prevents implantation, is having second thoughts. The reader recommended that I look at this recent report by Princeton researchers suggesting that Plan B may inhibit implantation, but...

Reason for caution regarding Plan B

Posted on January 10, 2009
In our continuing debate over whether the Vatican overstated the case against Plan B, "Reader 1" responds to "Reader 2": First, the person who quotes Sulmasy's article overstates the degree of our certainty about how Plan B works - that...

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But We Try Harder

Posted on January 09, 2009
MOJ did in fact finish second to Jonathan Turley in the Professors' Sites category of the ABA Journal's "Blawg 100." Thanks to all who voted!

Did the Vatican sow "unnecessary confusion" about Plan B?

Posted on January 09, 2009
A reader responds to this post defending the Vatican's analysis of Plan B: To Rob's reader who offers a partial defense of the CDF's treatment of Plan B contraception, perhaps there is still some lingering uncertainty in the scientific literature...

Edward P. Mahoney, R.I.P.

Posted on January 09, 2009
My undergraduate degree was in Philosophy. This was in no small part because of the encouragement and example provided by a wonderful teacher, friend, and priest, Prof. Ed Mahoney, who died yesterday. (See Brian Leiter's notice here, and the nice...

More Appreciation for Fr. Richard Neuhaus

Posted on January 09, 2009
There are tributes and testimonials all over the Internet today. Check out, for example, this, over at "the Catholic Thing"; this, at First Thing; this, by Ross Douthat; this, by John Podhoretz, etc. Here, thanks to First Things, is an...

"Gathered by the Lord in whom he trusted . . ."

Posted on January 08, 2009
Richard John Neuhaus has passed away. I'm grateful that I had the opportunity to tell Fr. Neuhaus how valuable First Things was in helping me, as a young Protestant lawyer, to begin to discern the relationships between faith, public policy,...

The Vatican might be correct on Plan B

Posted on January 08, 2009
A reader responds to my post of William Saletan's criticism of the Vatican's statement regarding Plan B: Just to respond briefly to Will Saletan - there is no definitive evidence of how Plan B works. Saletan is guilty of the...

More on Religion and Self-Control

Posted on January 08, 2009
Sam Levine at Pepperdine had this to share in reference to my recent post on religious belief and self-control. Some Jewish biblical commentators understand Abraham's statement in Genesis 20:11 as making a similar point about religion and self-control...

Pray for Fr. Neuhaus

Posted on January 07, 2009

Obama's Appointments and the Right to Life

Posted on January 07, 2009
Obama watchers have been forwarding to me hat-tips and expressions of growing dismay about the various appointments to the new administration, particularly for what these choices say about the assurances we had received from Catholic supporters of the Obama campaign...

Is Plan B a contraceptive or an interceptive?

Posted on January 06, 2009
William Saletan takes issue with the Vatican's analysis of "the morning-after pill" in Dignitas Personae.

The Kennedys, the Bishops and Abortion Politics

Posted on January 06, 2009
Anne Hendershott?s WSJ article, How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma is well worth reading. It tells the tale of what should now be seen as an infamous meeting in 1964 of Catholic theologians and Jesuit priests with members of...

MOJ Fifth Anniversary approaches . . .

Posted on January 05, 2009
On February 3, it will have been five years since the launch of this blog. (Here's Mark Sargent's opening post.) We are very grateful to our many thousands of readers, both regular and sporadic, and correspondents. MOJ is not Instapundit...

Enacting FOCA -- for whom?

Posted on January 02, 2009
Reading Patrick Deneen here, one cannot but feel grave about where "we" are and where "we" are going next. But there are signs of hope, if not about the economy then about whether we should should distinguish as a matter...

Finding Joy in the Midst of Darkness

Posted on January 02, 2009
Emilie Lemmons died of cancer just before Christmas, leaving behind a husband and two small children. Although we are fast approaching Ordinary Time, her words from Advent, filled with a wisdom gained by fully embracing reality, are worth reading any...

It's not too late . . .

Posted on January 01, 2009
. . . to vote (again?) for Mirror of Justice, at the ABA's "best law blogs" site. (We're under "Professors"). At present, we're number 2, behind Turley's blog (but who are we kidding . . . he can plug his...

Village Voice dumps Hentoff

Posted on December 31, 2008
The New York Times has the story here. A very unfortunate loss of a strong and effective pro-life voice.

A Christian Nation?: A Reader Responds

Posted on December 31, 2008
A reader responds to my post "A Christian Nation?" "First, I have no problem if X president wants to have Y prayer at the Inauguration. I agree with your earlier point: if Lieberman wants to have a rabbi, so be...

If Eternal Salvation isn't enough Motivation.......

Posted on December 31, 2008
. . . check out this NYT article, discussing an upcoming report in the Psychological Bulletin of research finding that "religious belief and piety promote self-control." According to one of the researchers, Dr. Michael McCullough: ?Brain-scan studies have shown that...

A Christian Nation?

Posted on December 30, 2008
Our dialogue over prayer at the inauguration (here, here, and here) has been subconsciously playing in my mind. Is a prayer in the name of Christ at the inauguration a sign of the President?s faith, the nation?s faith, or both?...

A Christian nation and all that?

Posted on December 30, 2008
I must begin this posting by thanking Rob, Steve, and Michael S. for their contributions to the issue of inauguration events that will include, most assuredly, prayers. If we consider the history of this country which quickly accepted an interestingly...

Point of Clarification for Michael

Posted on December 30, 2008
Point of clarification: I do not believe that a President?s personal expressions of faith are necessarily inappropriate or inherently discriminatory (even if presented at an inauguration). As to the prayers of ministers at the inauguration, I agree with Rob.

The Feast of the Holy Family

Posted on December 28, 2008
Here's a nice prayer, on the occasion of the Feast of the Holy Family. Today's Feast also seems an occasion for reflecting on the centrality of the family -- "the first and vital cell of society" -- to the Church's...

Markets, morals, and moralizing

Posted on December 27, 2008
Here's an interesting and provocative op-ed, by "Spengler" (Asia Times), about Pope Benedict's expressed views, over the last 25 years, on morality and economics: Here is what then Cardinal Ratzinger said about it more than 20 years ago: It is...

"God challenges us and our freedom"

Posted on December 25, 2008
Here is Pope Benedict XVI's "urbi et orbi" Christmas address. A bit: . . . In the millennium just past, and especially in the last centuries, immense progress was made in the areas of technology and science. Today we can...

Christianity and a Richly Textured Pluralism

Posted on December 24, 2008
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God ... And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us" (John 1:1 & 14). On this night of nights, we re-member...

Thoughts on the Inauguration

Posted on December 23, 2008
While many think President elect Obama made a mistake in inviting a polarizing preacher like Rick Warren (of course, there are many who are worse and his emphasis on the poor is laudable) to deliver a prayer at the inauguration....

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