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Catholics, Abortion, the Bishops, and the Presidential Election

Posted on October 27, 2008
I hope that all MOJ readers will consider carefully what Father Richard McBrien, the Crowley-O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and the author of the HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism (here), has to say in the following...

A Question about Breen's Conversation with Obama

Posted on October 27, 2008
We've discussed in the past many Catholic schools' selectivity when it comes to accepting students with disabilities. I don't know the exact statistics, but I have to assume the ability to exclude kids with special needs (an option not available...

A False Distinction

Posted on October 27, 2008
In his April 27, 2007 interview with reporter Nicole Gudiano, Senator Joseph Biden was asked questions on how he reconciled his Catholic faith with his support of Roe v. Wade. While he expressed some concern regarding the termination of a...

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Abortion "Rhetoric"

Posted on October 27, 2008
Last week, Eduardo wrote: In any event, and this is really my principal point in writing this post, given the differential treatment of abortion, I think it is highly inappropriate for advocates of prohibition ? [to use] the rhetoric of...

Debate . . . and doublespeak?

Posted on October 27, 2008
I read Lisa's recent post, on debate about abortion within the women's movement, just after I saw this, "Democrats play both sides of abortion politics in congressional races," from the Feminist Law Professors blog:Two contrasting views of the Democratic Party?s...

Debate about Abortion in the Leadership of the Women's Movement? Imagine that!

Posted on October 26, 2008
There's a very interesting article in the Washington Post about the profound effect Sarah Palin is having on "traditional" feminism. The article points out that: "As Election Day nears, it's clear that gender was not a disqualifying factor for either...

More on punishing abortion

Posted on October 26, 2008
With respect to Eduardo's most recent post on the matter . . . He writes that "the question is whether deciding in advance not to pursue for criminal sanctions the person who has procured the intentional killing of the unborn...

Constitutional "Interpretation", Proper Judicial Role, Etc.

Posted on October 25, 2008
Over the years, some of the posts here at MOJ, by Rick Garnett and others, have concerned constitutional controversies (e.g., capital punishment) and the proper role of the courts--especially the proper role of SCOTUS--is resolving such controversies...

David Warren on Obama's ?Messianic Pretensions?

Posted on October 25, 2008
Canadian commentator David Warren gives expression to the concerns that many of people of faith have about the man likely to become the next President. Herewith an excerpt (full editorial here): Obama has presented himself from the start as a...

Missing "priorities"

Posted on October 25, 2008
A few days ago, E.J. Dionne discussed with his (I admit) wider-than-MOJ readership what MOJ readers already know, i.e., Catholics are not "one issue" voters and are divided with respect to the upcoming election. (To be clear -- no one...

The Plot--Obamacons--Thickens

Posted on October 25, 2008
[Or is it "Obamacans"? This is lifted from dotCommonweal:] McCain Loses Fried October 24, 2008, 7:24 pm Posted by Eduardo Pe�alver This is interesting. It seems to me that, with the exception of Kmeic, what the ?Obamacons? all have in...

Abortion, Murder, and Public Attitudes

Posted on October 25, 2008
I think it follows from Eduardo"s excellent posts that the citizenry believes that human organisms in the first trimester should be entitled to less protection than babies (if abortion were thought to be murder, women would be prosecuted and abortions...

Sarah Palin, Average Americans, Intellectualism, and Elitism

Posted on October 25, 2008
Following up on our thread of a couple of weeks ago (here, here, here, and here) about whether the ascendancy of Governor Sarah Palin to the vice presidential nomination reflects an anti-intellectual trend in the Republican Party, readers might check...

Rick's post on Jim Wallis

Posted on October 25, 2008
I am a little surprised at Rick?s response to my post about Jim Wallis. First, Rick chides Wallis for not making it clear that he was speaking as a Protestant. I would have thought that already clear. Leaving that aside,...

Religious education in Germany

Posted on October 24, 2008
I spent today at Humboldt University in Berlin participating in a roundtable discussion about the role of religion in the American and German educational systems. It was fascinating, partly because, I confess, my understanding of religion's role in public education...

Another Response to Eduardo

Posted on October 24, 2008
Though I doubt that this is at what he had in mind, my colleague John Bronsteen has an article in the Indiana Law Journal that may usefully address the point raised by Eduardo in response to Rick?s post. That is,...

Responding to Rick and Chris

Posted on October 24, 2008
Rick says:it is deeply unjust for the law to categorically exclude a particular group of human persons from protection against lethal violence, because this exclusion is entirely incompatible with respect for these persons' rights, but also be open to dealing...

A question for Jim Wallis

Posted on October 24, 2008
Having read, at Steve S.'s suggestion, Jim Wallis's presentation of his candidate-selection calculus, my first question would be, "Mr. Wallis, isn't a bishop in a very good 'position to tell [Roman Catholics in his diocese] what is ?non-negotiable'"? Putting aside...

Some thoughts in response to Eduardo

Posted on October 24, 2008
There's a lot in Eduardo's post to think about, and I hope that others will weigh in. For my own part -- recognizing that this is not a complete response -- I was struck by this:. . . A variant...

Abortion and Murder

Posted on October 24, 2008
Rick says:In my view, there is nothing hypocritical or otherwise suspect about saying (a) our Constitution permits legislatures to regulate abortion more closely than Roe permits; (b) abortion involves the killing of an innocent human person; and (c) women who...

Prayers for Episcopalians

Posted on October 23, 2008
In response to my post on this subject, St. Thomas' Valerie Munson writes: Like Michael S., I pray these days for our Episcopal brothers and sisters. I pray for the many who suffer a crisis of faith because of their...

On Mandatory Minimum Criminal Sentences, Senator Obama Gets It Right

Posted on October 23, 2008
The CNN political ticker reports today that the Republican National Committee is sending out automated telephone calls in battleground states, in which Rudy Giuliani says, ?I?m calling for John McCain and the Republican National Committee, because you need to know...

Prosecuting women for abortion?

Posted on October 23, 2008
The question is often raised -- it has been discussed more than a few times here at MOJ -- whether those who support the overruling of Roe and the increased regulation of abortion are actually prepared to treat women who...

What actually reduces abortions

Posted on October 23, 2008
One of the questions at the heart of the "how should pro-lifers vote?" debate is whether the package of policies endorsed or proposed by Candidate X is likely to reduce the number of abortions. (As I've suggested before, I think...

Conscience Protections and Medicine

Posted on October 23, 2008
Professor Joseph Capizzi's column on Conscience Protections and Medicine will be of interest to some of our readers. Here is one paragraph:Conscience protections exist to allow people to heal the sick without having to kill the vulnerable. The vocal representatives...

Jim Wallis and the 2008 Elections

Posted on October 23, 2008
I think the principles put forth by Jim Wallis on the 2008 elections are well worth considering. Here is what he has to say: ?I am in no position to tell anyone what is ?non-negotiable,? and neither is any bishop...

MacIntyre's Third Option

Posted on October 22, 2008
In response to my MacIntyre post, Chuck Roth writes: Here's my question. I have no doubt that Obama's support of legalized abortion, etc., would require something very grave, indeed, to justify the remote material cooperation which voting for him would...

Alasdair MacIntyre on the Election (of 2004)

Posted on October 22, 2008
This November, I will cast a vote for one of the two major presidential candidates (and most regular readers of this blog can probably correctly guess how I will vote). But, there is, as my daughter Anamaria reminds me, another...

Alasdair MacIntyre on the Election (of 2004)

Posted on October 22, 2008
This November, I will cast a vote for one of the two major presidential candidates (and most regular bloggers can probably correctly guess how I will vote). But, there is, as my daughter Anamaria reminds me, another possibility. She points...

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