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The financial crisis: a reader's views

Posted on September 30, 2008
An MOJ reader sends in this, responding to Lisa's and Russ's posts on the financial crisis. (At the time of this writing, for what it's worth, the Dow is back up 300 points after yesterday's drop.) Elizabeth Schlitz's discussion of...

autonomy vs. conscience (coming back to Rob)

Posted on September 30, 2008
Rob Vischer writes: "Politically, I don't think there is much perceived difference in forcing all organizations to accommodate every individual employee and forcing all organizations to accommodate every individual consumer." What is muddied not just in this sentence but, as...

The Place of the ?Equality? in the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

Posted on September 29, 2008
I would like to explore the question about the meaning of equality in the framework of the challenging American political and legal debate that generates passion among participants, i.e., same-sex marriage, since both Prof. Doug Laycock and Rick mention it...

A Catholic Approach to the Financial Crisis?

Posted on September 29, 2008
Today the Dow dropped the most it ever has in a single day. The administration argues that our financial system is on the verge of collapse. Despite lobbying by the President and senior cabinet members, the House did not approve...

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Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: A question for Michael

Posted on September 29, 2008
I share Michael P's admiration for Prof. Doug Laycock, and so I take very seriously Doug's remark, to which Michael linked: The nature of marriage is a question with profound religious significance and fundamentally disputed answers. The state has no...

USCCB on the "Freedom of Choice Act"

Posted on September 29, 2008
This letter, from Cardinal Rigali, on behalf of the USCCB, to members of Congress, regarding the "Freedom of Choice Act", is a must-read. (The letter is not, to be clear, a brief for any particular presidential candidate.) As he puts...

A Guide to the Catholic Blogosphere

Posted on September 28, 2008
Here.

Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

Posted on September 27, 2008
My copy of a new book arrived in the mail today: Douglas Laycock, Anthony R. Picarello, Jr., & Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds., Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). In the best of all possible worlds,....

Benedict on Catholic schools

Posted on September 27, 2008
Here's the Pope, on my favorite topic: Catholic schools are a concrete manifestation of the right to freedom of education, says Benedict XVI. The Pope expressed this conviction today during an address in the apostolic palace at Castel Gandolfo to...

"Turning the First Amendment on its head"

Posted on September 27, 2008
An excellent primer / post, by Fr. Richard Neuhaus, on religious freedom and the First Amendment: Fr. John Courtney Murray, author of We Hold These Truths and a champion of religious freedom at the Second Vatican Council, observed that, while...

Response to Rob Vischer re conscience protection

Posted on September 26, 2008
Just a quick response to Rob's point that institutional autonomy argues against federal conscience protection for health care providers (1) The reguation in question is not attempting to make new law, but only to better enforce existing law. (2) I...

Giving Human Trafficking a Human Face

Posted on September 26, 2008
MOJ-reader Denise Hunnell sent me this reaction to the final paragraph of Chato Hazelbaker's comments on yesterday's University of St. Thomas Law Journal symposium on human trafficking: When my oldest was a high school junior, my mother gave him a...

Human Trafficking

Posted on September 26, 2008
Yesterday, the University of St. Thomas Law Journal sponsored a terrific symposium on Human Trafficking. At some point soon, I'll write a post with some of my own thoughts on the day, but in the meantime, let me share the...

Why I oppose the HHS conscience rule

Posted on September 26, 2008
If I provide comments to HHS about its proposed new conscience rule, I'm afraid my comments will not be favorable. Consider this sweeping grant of individual rights in the proposed rule: Any entity "that carries out any part of any...

Abortion rates lowest in 34 years

Posted on September 26, 2008
According to the Guttmacher Institute, "the overall U.S. abortion rate is at its lowest level since 1974." (Of course, this report cannot be right, because we know that, during the last eight years, the poor have been neglected by an...

The bishops, abortion, and the Democrats: a response to Steve

Posted on September 26, 2008
Steve asks, "is it the Bishops? position that the Constitution should be . . . amended . . . to embrace a constitutional right of the unborn not to be killed?" It is, in fact, the position of the American...

Forgiveness and Power

Posted on September 25, 2008
Susan posted some profound thoughts on Forgiveness and Power on her personal blog, Creo en Dios. SInce it touches on the subjects of rights, justice, and mercy, I thought it fitting for a cross post here.

The Bishops and the Democrats: A Response

Posted on September 25, 2008
Steve asks many important questions in his post. Near the end of the post, he says: "Finally, perhaps wrongly, I see a pattern of specific criticism against Catholic Democratic politicians." My perception is that the recent criticisms of Nancy Pelosi...

The Bishops and the Democrats

Posted on September 25, 2008
Cardinal Justin F. Rigali, chairman of the U.S. Bishops? Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Bishop William E. Lori, chairman, U.S. Bishops Committee on Doctrine recently criticized Nancy Pelosi and Joseph Biden for failing to recognize that from the moment of...

An urgent letter from Teresa

Posted on September 24, 2008
I just received this urgent letter from Prof. Teresa Collett, whom most of us know and admire: The US Dept. of Health and Human Services has announced a rule that would protect the ability of healthcare providers to refuse to...

Religion and Governance

Posted on September 24, 2008
Live in or near the District of Columbia? Interested in religion and government? Then you might want to check out this conference. Click here for the agenda. American University Washington College of Law October 9-11, 2008 Sixth North American Baha?i...

Human dignity as social hierarchy

Posted on September 24, 2008
I'm delving more deeply into the concept of human dignity, exploring in particular the notion that human dignity is primarily of legal relevance to, and evidenced by, human relationships, rather than a stand-alone construct of the human person. In this...

Catholicism and Libertarianism

Posted on September 24, 2008
There is an interesting article by Daniel Finn (Professor of Theology and Economics at St. John's MN) on the tension between secular libertarianism and Catholic moral theology called "Libertarian Heresy: The Fundamentalism of Free-Market Theology" in the most recent issue...

Miscellanea

Posted on September 24, 2008
Thanks very much, Patrick, for the correction about George Will. I had thought for many years that he was Catholic. An editorial in the September 26th issue of Commonweal will interest many MOJ readers. Here's how the editorial begins, followed...

The real George Will

Posted on September 24, 2008
Pace what my friend Michael Perry asserts, George Will is not a Catholic and, in fact, recently said in an interview with Stephen Colbert that he is an agnostic, though he attended an Episcopal church in the DC area for...

McCain? Obama?

Posted on September 24, 2008
For better or worse, many MOJ posts during this presidential season (as, indeed, during the last presidential season) have become briefs for supporting, or for opposing, a presidential candidate. George Will, as many MOJ-readers know, is Catholic. He is also...

Comes Creighton

Posted on September 23, 2008
Shortly after posting yesterday about the card "Announcing Dean Eric A. Chiappinelli," Dean Chiappinelli emailed me regarding what's really going in terms of the Jesuit Catholic mission of Creighton Law. Dean Chiappinelli assures me that the Jesuit Catholic identity is...

NRLC on Kmiec on Obama

Posted on September 23, 2008
Doug Johnson, legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, responds to Doug Kmiec's defense of Barack Obama's opposition to the Born Alive Act: As legislative director for National Right to Life, I have been closely attentive to the....

Pope Pius XII

Posted on September 23, 2008
Here, from Sandro Magister, is the latest on Pope Pius XII. The article, which highlights a recent article in La Civilta Cattolica, discusses the legacy of Pius XII. Pius has been unfairly maligned for his actions during WW II. This...

The Venn diagrams -- yet again

Posted on September 22, 2008
If you're like me and (I'm guessing) most of the rest of the US legal academy, you last week received a card "Annoucning Dean Eric A. Chiappinelli," the new dean of Creighton University School of Law. Among Dean Chiappinelli's "priorities"...

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