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Abortion: A Response to John and Michael

Posted on November 01, 2008
In a previous post I maintained that most people do not think that first trimester abortions are murder (though they regard them as morally problematic), that they believe the moral seriousness of abortion increases in the course of fetal development,...

A Further Response to Cafardi, Kaveny and Kmiec (Part 2) ? Not ?The Perfect Pro-Life Candidate?

Posted on November 01, 2008
Cafardi, Kaveny and Kmiec acknowledge that Obama isn?t ?the perfect pro-life candidate.? In this they display a rare talent for understatement. Still, they insist that he is genuinely ?pro-life? in a meaningful and ?real world? way in that he wants...

Schools and Vouchers

Posted on October 31, 2008
A reader writes:Three points in response to Susan Stabile?s point that solving the problems in education will require much more than vouchers. 1. One significant reason why the school choice movement hasn?t made more progress is the near obsessive focus...

A Further Response to Cafardi, Kaveny and Kmiec (Part 1) ?The Purported Inability to Overturn Roe as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Posted on October 31, 2008
George Weigel is more than capable of defending himself in print, and he recently published an excellent reply (here) to Nick Cafardi, Cathy Kaveny and Doug Kmiec?s response (here) to his original Newsweek essay (here) criticizing self-identified pro-life Catholic support...

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A Thought on Greenspan for Elizabeth

Posted on October 31, 2008
Without getting into Elizabeth's main point about behavioral economics, let me say how I read her quotation from Greenspan: "I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such as that they were...

Behaviorial Economics as "Personalist" Economics?

Posted on October 31, 2008
David Brooks suggests in a column in the NYT that one of the things the financial meltdown reveals is the inadequacy of economic and social theories based on the assumption that man does actually engage in rational calculation and maximizing...

Education: Not Neglected on Mirror of Justice Any Longer

Posted on October 30, 2008
My colleague, Susan Stabile, reminds us (here) that the issue of education is not only about educational choice. For Mirror of Justice readers looking for more on education policy questions in the current campaign, I've posted several such messages in...

Mirror of Justice and law-blog rankings

Posted on October 30, 2008
Prof. Paul Caron has posted the latest law-prof-blog rankings; unfortunately, because we were late getting our site-meter set up, Mirror of Justice was not eligible. However, it looks to me -- if one extrapolates from the available site-meter data --...

It is Not Just About Educational Choice

Posted on October 30, 2008
The last several MOJ posts that have addressed the issue of education have focused on school choice, with both Greg and John's latest comments criticizing Obama's position on vouchers for Catholic schools. I applaud a focus on education, but want...

Abortion "Rhetoric": A Response to Steve S.

Posted on October 29, 2008
In response to my Abortion ?Rhetoric? post, Steve S. asked me via email to address his post, to which Eduardo refers in a recent post. I?ll respond to Steve here and Eduardo later. Steve?s post concerns ?what most citizens believe?...

When I was hungry, when I was cold

Posted on October 29, 2008
We are all understandably focused on the election and politics, but let's also devote attention to the immediate needs of those around us. This is the post I made on my blog this morning:Here in the Twin Cities, the weather...

The beginning of Cardinal Egan's Column

Posted on October 29, 2008
Richard S., thank you for linking to Cardinal Egan's column. It moved me, and I decided to include the beginnings of it here: The picture on this page is an untouched photograph of a being that has been within its...

Abortion "Rhetoric": A Response to Eduardo

Posted on October 29, 2008
Two responses to Eduardo?s post, which suggests that calling abortion for what it is ? the brutal and intentional taking of innocent human life ? is overly simplistic. First, it is a form of evasion employed by pro abortion rights...

Cardinal Egan's vision and voice

Posted on October 29, 2008
The posted article by William Gould names a few of the some 80 bishops who have insisted that life is the crucial issue for us in this election, but he fails to mention the powerful vision and voice of Cardinal...

Pro-life, Pro-Obama? Why this election

Posted on October 29, 2008
Pro-life, Pro-Obama? Why this election can?t be reduced to one issue William J. Gould Significant portions of the Catholic Church in the United States appear committed to the proposition that the only acceptable political manifestation of being a Catholic entails...

Elections and the shocking objective truth

Posted on October 29, 2008
Those who ask whether a Republican administration makes a difference for life or reason should read the left-hand front-page column in today?s (Oct. 29) NY Times, expressing deep concern that Bush?s judges have moved the federal appeals courts to the...

"A Matter of Life and Debt"

Posted on October 29, 2008
Margaret Atwood recently published an interesting reflection on the financial crisis for the New York Times with a number of references to aspects of Catholic legal theory. Some excerpts:. . . [W]e?re deluding ourselves if we assume that we can...

Educational Choice, Catholic Schools, and Selectivity

Posted on October 29, 2008
Because educational choice has long been a central element of Catholic social teaching, for moral as well as educational reasons, I want to return to the thread about school choice and vouchers and continue our discussion about whether Catholic schools...

Can a faithful Catholic oppose progressive taxation?

Posted on October 28, 2008
There's been a lot of blogging on MoJ about abortion during this campaign season (for good reason), but tax policy has not gotten a lot of attention. Obviously, faithful Catholics can disagree about what sort of tax policy best promotes...

Public Attitudes and ?Murder? as a Description of Abortion ? A Response to Steve

Posted on October 28, 2008
In an earlier post, Steve wrote that ?most citizens will think that the abortion murder rhetoric is out of place and they will think that the abortion issue (significant as it is) should not be politically privileged over issues such...

The Rhetoric of Murder

Posted on October 28, 2008
Michael S. asks:Is abortion the taking of a life? Is the form of the taking an act of intentional killing of a life? Is the life taken innocent of any wrongdoing? Is the life taken human? Is the method of...

Abortion and Murder, Comment from Chris Green

Posted on October 28, 2008
I've been out of pocket for several days, and still am to a degree, but I wanted to be sure to post this comment that Chris Green sent me in response to my response to his comment (!) to Rick....

Catholic Schools, Selectivity, School Choice and Obama

Posted on October 28, 2008
Friend of MOJ and Univ. of St. Thomas Law Professor Elizabeth Brown wrote the following e-mail to me in response to my post on Obama and school choice which I am happy to reprint with her permission: Your post on...

Pope Benedict on church-state separation

Posted on October 28, 2008
In his address to the Philippine ambassador (thanks to Commonweal for the link), Pope Benedict had some important things to say about church-state separation:The Catholic Church is eager to share the richness of the Gospel?s social message, for it enlivens...

Frs. McBrien and Reese are wrong

Posted on October 28, 2008
In the piece by Fr. Richard McBrien, to which Michael linked, we read the following:The only way that abortions are going to be reduced, as Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese insisted recently on his blog for The Washington Post ( Abortion:...

Rick?s Missing Priorities: Obama and School Choice ? An Anecdote

Posted on October 27, 2008
I agree with Rick that the issue of school choice has been largely missing from discussions surrounding the ?Catholic vote? in the upcoming election. With respect this subject, let me share with you a brief conversation that I had with...

Working together against FOCA (at least after next Tuesday)

Posted on October 27, 2008
Let?s not become so distracted by the presidential politics that divide us that we forget what urgently unites us. I confess that this has been a failing on my part for some weeks. The Catholic bishops have had an ?action...

Catholic Schools and the Disadvantaged

Posted on October 27, 2008
When Catholics urge vouchers for school choice and argue that Catholics schools perform better than the public schools that often fail poor children, the responsive retort frequently has been that Catholic schools are able to skim off the cream of...

Education Spending and the Failure of Educational Progress

Posted on October 27, 2008
To consider along with the posts yesterday and today, which pick up on my earlier posts about the fundamental importance of education to social justice, the online article by Steven Malanga, provocatively titled, ?We Don?t Need Another War on Poverty,?...

On second thought, let me make it easy for you ...

Posted on October 27, 2008
Here's the piece by Father Thomas Reese, SJ, referenced in Fr. McBrien's piece in the immediately, preceding post:Abortion: Rhetoric or Results? Abortion has been one of the most divisive and polarizing issues in American politics for the past 35 years...

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