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The Catholic Church and Labor: Questions

Posted on November 17, 2008
In response to the news of the labor dispute between a teacher?s union and the Scranton diocese, one of the students in my Catholic Perspectives on American Law seminar asked this: Is the Church's position on Labor inconsistent? Does the...

Capital Punishment. Abortion. Same-Sex Marriage.

Posted on November 17, 2008
How large a role should SCOTUS play, or how small a role, in adjudicating moral controversies that implicate constitutional rights--as do the large controversies over capital punishment, abortion, and same-sex marriage? MOJ readers may be interested in this: Constitutional Rights,...

Pope John XXIII ... Remember Him?

Posted on November 16, 2008
The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation Jewish Leader Wants Honor for John XXIII See the video on Google Videohttp://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=8016218320480069957&hl=es Endorsements to the Wallenberg Foundation proposal regarding Pope John XXIII as "Righteous among the Nations" will be welcome at: irwf@irwf...

Catholic Church and Labor No Related

Posted on November 14, 2008
Catholic Church and Labor No Related Post Religion & Ethics NewsweeklyNovember 14, 2008LUCKY SEVERSON: There was a time when a labor strike like this one against the Catholic Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania, would have been difficult to imagine. The Church,...

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A recent column by the newly elected head of the USCCB Pro-Life Committee

Posted on November 14, 2008
A thoughtful column by Cardinal DiNardo: http://www.diogh.org/BishopPastorals/bishop3mess-090208.asp

Can Obama voters receive communion?

Posted on November 14, 2008
It looks like a priest in South Carolina has gotten a bit out in front of the bishops conference on the subject of voting for a pro-choice candidate. An excerpt from Fr. Jay Scott Newman's letter to his congregation:Voting for...

Example of Bipartisan Support on One Life Issue

Posted on November 14, 2008
This is great news. It happened back in September, but somehow I missed it then. The Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Conditions Awareness Act, (the Kennedy-Brownback bill) has now passed both the House and Senate. This report begins:The House has joined...

Another Comment on Choice

Posted on November 14, 2008
Thanks to Robert for his response. Perhaps my own earlier response was not clear that I agree that what was done to Mr. Eckern was wrong. My hypothetical was intended to try to clarify the scope of what constitutes wrong...

A response to ?Vetoing Another?s Choices?

Posted on November 14, 2008
I would like to thank Susan for her response earlier today to the posting I made yesterday entitled ?Religious Freedom and the Right to Be a Citizen.? I would like to know where she does and does not agree with...

Vetoing Another's Choices

Posted on November 14, 2008
Although I agree with some of what Robert Araujo says in his post on religious freedom and the right to be a citizen and think the forced resignation of Mr. Eckern was unfortunate, one particular sentence gave me pause. Robert...

Religious Freedom and the Right to Be a Citizen

Posted on November 13, 2008
A while back in August, we had some discussion here at MOJ about boycotts, the AALS, and Proposition 8 (the successful California marriage initiative to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman). My contribution is HERE....

Response to Michael (Sean Winters)

Posted on November 13, 2008
Michael P. re-posted an op-ed by my sometime-blogging-colleague (at America) Michael Sean Winters. Because, I confess, I am tired of blogging about Obama, abortion, Kmiec's follies, etc., etc., I will try to keep this response pithy: MSW says that one...

An Open Letter to President-Elect

Posted on November 13, 2008
An Open Letter to President-Elect Obama About Abortion: From a Pro-Obama and Pro-Life Leader Read it here.

"If you want peace, work for justice." --Paul VI

Posted on November 13, 2008
The dedication of my third book, Love and Power: The Role of Religion and Morality in American Politics (Oxford, 1991), reads as follows: On November 16, 1989, in San Salvador, El Salvador, six Jesuit priests, their cook, and her daughter,...

Catholics, The Election, and Obama: Another Reflection

Posted on November 13, 2008
This one appears in the new issue (11/15/08) of The Tablet: Why they didn?t listen US election 2008 Michael Sean Winters American bishops have been conducting a post-mortem on the presidential election after calls by some of them for Catholics...

"A New Day"

Posted on November 12, 2008
This piece, from First Things, by Fr. John Jay Hughes, is worth thinking about. A taste:The worst aspect of an Obama presidency, I have been telling friends for months, will be his Supreme Court appointments. They will set the so-called...

[I thought that the links in this

Posted on November 12, 2008
[I thought that the links in this post, lifted from dotCommonweal, would be of interest to many MOJ readers.] Abortion and the Law November 12, 2008, 11:25 am Posted by Cathleen Kaveny I have tried to link, in several posts...

Robert George to U.N.

Posted on November 11, 2008
The Catholic News Agency is reporting:Intellectual heavyweight, Professor Robert P. George, has received an appointment as a member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST). More here. Congrats to Robby! R

Comment on Nelson Tebbe on Exclusions of Religion from Government Aid Programs

Posted on November 11, 2008
I've posted a short paper on SSRN that will appear soon in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review's online format PENNumbra. It's a comment on a longer piece by Nelson Tebbe (Brooklyn Law School). Here is the abstract:Among the most...

"Real Change" is coming

Posted on November 11, 2008
The Catholic News Agency reports:Washington DC, Nov 11, 2008 / 05:02 am (CNA).- President-elect Barack Obama?s transition team is preparing the first actions of his presidency, planning to lift embryonic stem cell research funding restrictions and rules which prevent international...

The Conversation That Will Happen A Little Later

Posted on November 11, 2008
Readers may remember that we had initially scheduled our MOJ conversation on sexual ethics for the second week of December, to begin with a discussion of Margaret Farley's book, "Just Love." Due to some unforeseen difficulties with our schedules, we....

More Election Reflections: Limited Options

Posted on November 11, 2008
Continuing the discussion with Sean and Susan about whether ?don?t vote for Obama? necessarily translated into ?vote for McCain,? I think we also have to look at the practical reality of how our two-party system operated in the 2008 election....

Moral Guidance?

Posted on November 11, 2008
Regarding Sean's comment, whether it was "vote Republican" or "don't vote for Obama," it is the "or be eternally damned" part of the sentence (which is pretty close to the exact language I heard in one radio quote) which for...

More Election Reflections

Posted on November 11, 2008
Sean Dudley appreciates the opportunity to participate in this discussion with Professors Stabile and Uelmen (here). He says:In response to Prof. Stabile's recent post, I have to say that I don't recall any of the outspoken anti-Obama bishops demanding that...

Even More Questions on Election Reflections

Posted on November 10, 2008
Amy, I'm a little confused about how you articulate some of your questions/statements in your most recent post. First, regarding disqualifying a candidate because of a position on a single issue of intrinsic evil, you say that you "think many...

Election Reflections: More Questions

Posted on November 10, 2008
A response to Sean Dudley?s first point in the post by Michael S: I think the key word that seems to be generating differing interpretations of Forming Consciences is ?may?: ?a candidate?s position on a single issue that involves an...

Election Reflections: A Response to Michael P.

Posted on November 10, 2008
Sean Dudley responds to Michael P.'s post, Election Reflections, which reprints a Peter Steinfels NYT op-ed: In his criticism of the bishops who told Catholics that they could not in good conscience vote for Sen. Obama, Steinfels misreads the bishops?...

Does Religion Make Us Nice?

Posted on November 10, 2008
From Slate, an interesting essay on the effect of religion. From the opening:Arguments about the merits of religions are often battled out with reference to history, by comparing the sins of theists and atheists. (I see your Crusades and raise...

Dane on Civil Marriage

Posted on November 10, 2008
Rutgers law prof Perry Dane has posted his paper, A Holy Secular Institution. From the abstract:This article examines the notion that civil marriage is a "wholly secular institution." It concludes that the "secular" and "religious" meanings and institutions of marriage...

Reason, Logic, and the Law

Posted on November 09, 2008
Now that the election is over and change is in place?the face of that change is commencing to take shape?the need to take stock of Catholic Legal Theory on many fronts will be the task of the day, yet again....

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