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Waldron on human equality

Posted on December 09, 2008
Jeremy Waldron has posted his new paper, Basic Equality. (HT: Solum) Here's the abstract: This is a three-part study and defense of the idea of basic human equality. (This is the idea that humans are basically one another's equals, as...

A Law Student Writes

Posted on December 09, 2008
Professor Perry, I write to you concerning an article you posted on Mirror of Justice by Kate Childs Graham.... I?m wondering if you feel, as I do, that room can easily be made, and should be, for a marriage like...

A Blessed Feast

Posted on December 08, 2008
Today we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception and we commemorate through prayer and the Eucharist the patroness of our nation and our efforts here at the Mirror of Justice. May we take a few moments today to ask...

"Abortion Politics Didn't Doom the G.O.P."

Posted on December 08, 2008
Ross Douthat has an op-ed by this title in today's N.Y. Times. Here is a sample: "the question isn?t whether the anti-abortion movement can change, adapt and compromise. It?s already done that. The question is whether it can afford to...

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"Our task as Christians today . . .

Posted on December 08, 2008
. . . is to contribute our concept of God to the debate about man." Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

Still a Catholic Charity[From America,

Posted on December 08, 2008
Still a Catholic Charity[From America, Dec. 8, 2008:]Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska got some of her biggest (intentional) laughs of the presidential campaign during her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, when she lambasted Senator Barack Obama's work as...

What is a "Catholic" Anyway?

Posted on December 08, 2008
Sightings12/8/08 Catholic Creativity -- Martin E. Marty With Catholics, Catholicism, Roman Catholics, the Church, and the Catholic bloc having played ill-defined and indeterminate roles in the November election, the one-fourth of the American population that they make up is ripe...

No longer number 1

Posted on December 08, 2008
In the ABA's blog popularity contest, we've been overtaken by another blog, but its not too late to vote for Mirror of Justice here. In the spirit of Chicago politics vote early and often!

Law, History, and CST

Posted on December 08, 2008
Today is the last meeting of my seminar in Catholic Social Thought. We are reading and discussing (then) Cardinal Ratzinger's "Values in a Time of Upheaval". Early in the book, he observes that Jewish (and then the Christian) understanding of...

A Young But Erroneous Voice on the Faith

Posted on December 05, 2008
Michael P. has thoughtfully brought to our attention the article published yesterday in the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) penned by Kate (ne Braggs) Childs Graham entitled ?Our Journey to Holy Union.? I know from past postings that Michael has stated...

"The Art of the Possible"

Posted on December 05, 2008
I couldn't help thinking, when I read the America op-ed that Michael reproduced in his post, that perhaps it should have been called "The Art of the little that is now, given the elections of the candidates we at America...

Notre Dame Law Student wins Pew Religious Freedom Scholarship competition

Posted on December 05, 2008
I'm delighted to report that my former student, Julie Baworowsky, has won the Pew Religious Freedom Scholarship competition for her paper, "From Public Square to Market Square: Theoretical Foundations of First and Fourteenth Amendment Protection of Corporate Religious Speech...

Naming the Source of Dignity: A Fifth Response

Posted on December 05, 2008
My student Steven Albright responds to the question: The student who said that the responses come from not wanting to think about finals is very much correct. Today it was much more agreeable to me to think about dignity than...

A follow-up on the International Theological Commission

Posted on December 05, 2008
As I mentioned earlier this week, the International Theological Commission (ITC) has been meeting in its final session and met earlier today with Pope Benedict. As you may recall, the ITC has been working on a document concerning a search...

John Allen on Doug Kmiec as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican

Posted on December 05, 2008
Here.

Arbortion Absolutists

Posted on December 05, 2008
This article, in the current issue of America (Dec. 15, 2008), is very interesting. The author is John F. Kavanaugh, SJ, professor of philosophy at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Mo. To read the whole article, click here Here's...

Obama, Abortion, and the Art of the Possible

Posted on December 05, 2008
AmericaDecember 15, 2008Editorial: The Art of the Possible N ext month will mark the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the flawed U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned most laws restricting abortion in America. The official anniversary will be Jan...

Religious Freedom and Head Scarves

Posted on December 05, 2008
The European human rights court yesterday uanimously rejected the complaint of two French Muslim girls who were expelled from school for refusing to remove their head scarves. Although I haven't read the opinion, Reuters reports that the court determined that...

Another followup to Susan's post

Posted on December 04, 2008
Click here to read a piece that appears in the current issue of Commonweal--a piece written by the New York poet Ned O'Gorman, who is both Catholic and gay.

Faith and Justice

Posted on December 04, 2008
This is today's Gospel reading: GospelMt 7:21, 24-27Jesus said to his disciples:?Not everyone who says to me, ?Lord, Lord,?will enter the Kingdom of heaven,but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.?Everyone who listens to these...

A followup to Susan's post of David Weiss's e-mail ...

Posted on December 04, 2008
Our journey to holy unionKate Childs Graham December 4, 2008 About a month before Proposition 8 passed in California Nov. 4, taking away an array of human rights, and the U.S. bishops decided to team up with the Knights of...

Are "the kids" pro-life?

Posted on December 04, 2008
Some interesting thoughts, and data, here, from Ross Douthat.

Naming the Source of Human Dignity: A Fourth Response

Posted on December 04, 2008
One student remarked that so many students are responding to the blog today because ANYTHING is better than studying for finals. Here is another student's take on the human dignity question: "The real problem is, indeed, a modern philosophical shift,...

Another Response to Sodomy and Civil Rights

Posted on December 04, 2008
MOJ-reader Jonathan Watson sends this response to David Weiss's piece on committed same-sex relationships and sodomy: " Dear Prof. Weiss, "I find your piece on committed same-sex relationships interesting, though I think flawed in its reasoning. You begin with the...

"Sodomy and Civil Rights"

Posted on December 04, 2008
It is a day for law student responses. Oklahoma law student, Nicholas Bender responds David Weiss' "Sodomy and Civil Rights" posted here: "David Weiss defines sodomy this way: "Sodomy happens when any group uses their majority or their power to...

Naming the Source of Dignity: A Third Response

Posted on December 04, 2008
George Mason law student Mattias Caro weighs in the question: "I was intrigued by the Glendon quote you put up, in part because I spent a good deal of the summer working with Glendon's book on Eleanor Rosevelt and the...

Naming the Source of Human Dignity: Another Response

Posted on December 04, 2008
This post, by Alabama law student Abe Delnore, responds to this post, which is also discussed here and here: "I wonder if Rick Garnett's former student--the Bob Jones alumnus--suggests an answer to your student's question. That is, divine creation not...

Naming the Source of Dignity: A Response

Posted on December 04, 2008
A student posed a question here and Fr. Araujo responded here. This is a response from Richmond law student John O'Herron: "Your most recent post and the question it poses are fascinating. I am a law student at UR so...

MOJ-fest in my Catholic Social Thought class

Posted on December 04, 2008
Yesterday, in my "Catholic Social Thought and the Law" seminar, we talked about a group of readings having to do not so much with the "what does CST tell us about what law and / or policy should be, in...

A Further Thought on Human Dignity

Posted on December 04, 2008
Thanks to Michael S. for raising the interesting and important question raised by one of his students over Mary Ann Glendon?s valuable analysis of the Kantian and Rousseauian perspectives on human dignity. Ambassador Glendon is right on target in identifying...

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