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Thanks . . . It's Good to Be Back

Posted on September 22, 2008
Thanks, Rick for the official welcome back! In some ways, it seems as though I've never been gone, having continued to participate in the conversation as an avid reader and sometimes blogger, vicariously posting through one or another friend on...

Welcome (back) to John Breen

Posted on September 22, 2008
I'm delighted to announce that John Breen is (re)joining our merry band here at MOJ. To celebrate, here's a little blast-from-the-past, John's article "Justice and the Jesuit Legal Education: A Critique": Jesuits need to engage in an honest assessment of...

Welcome to the world, J. Julio Peñalver

Posted on September 21, 2008
Not really on topic, but parental pride cannot be contained. Here's a photo of the new guy.

Upcoming Conference of Interest

Posted on September 21, 2008
The Sixth Annual Christian Legal Scholar's Symposium will take place Oct. 10-11 at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capital Hill as part of the 2008 Christian Lawyer Global Convocation. For details and a schedule for this excellent conference, click here...

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"Institutional Pluralism"

Posted on September 21, 2008
It would be fair, and not uncharitable, to say that the plenary and presidential sessions at the AALS annual meeting are not always particularly interesting. This year, though -- thanks, no doubt, in part to the work of Dean John...

"Speaking of Law and Religion"

Posted on September 21, 2008
Go here for all the info about the upcoming conference to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Journal of Law and Religion. Looks great.

The Pope and Politics

Posted on September 21, 2008
An interesting piece, by Sandro Magister: After three years in the pontificate, and defying the expectations of most, the refined theologian has left his mark on international politics as well. In the West, with Islam, with China. . . ....

China frees (sort of) "underground" bishop

Posted on September 21, 2008
News from the Becket Fund: The bishop of an unregistered Roman Catholic church in northern China has returned home, after being taken away by authorities on the last day of the Beijing Olympics, a U.S.-based monitoring group said Friday. However,...

Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage: Emerging Conflicts

Posted on September 21, 2008
Story here: The legalization of same-sex marriage poses a direct threat to the civil liberties of religious Americans who oppose homosexuality, a distinguished panel of Constitutional law scholars said last night (Sept. 9, 2008) at the Newseum, in Washington, D...

" . . . they'll believe anything."

Posted on September 21, 2008
Someone (probably G.K. Chesteron) once said (something like) "what happens when people stop believing in God is not that they believe nothing, but that they'll believe anything." So it seems: . . . [W]hile increased church attendance and membership in...

"A More Perfect Human"

Posted on September 20, 2008
Here is just a small part of Leon Kass' must read lecture given at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. and exploring the dangers in the salvific view of science. Persons who happen still to be born with [genetic diseases and...

Garvey on "Institutional Pluralism"

Posted on April 01, 2008
In his address at the January 2008 Annual Meeting of the AALS, the new AALS President, Dean John Garvey (Boston College) discussed "institutional pluralism." Here is a bit from a Boston College Law School-affiliated site: In a speech in January...

"Young Americans Revere Monogamy"

Posted on March 31, 2008
Those crazy "millennials" . . . it turns out they "have a reverence for national institutions, traditions and family values" and "overwhelmingly . . . support monogamy, marriage, the U.S. Constitution and the military[.]" Who knew?

"Conversion and Conflict"

Posted on March 31, 2008
Next Monday (April 7), I'll be giving a lecture as part of a program, "Conversions and Conflict: An Interreligious Discussion of Evangelization", at the University of St. Thomas's Murphy Institute for Catholic Thought, Law and Public Policy. I'm looking forward...

Catholic Voters and the Presidential Election

Posted on March 31, 2008
"Trying to Vote in Good Conscience ELIZABETH F. BROWN, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN - School of Law Email: efbrown@stthomas.edu [ABSTRACT:] In November 2007, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship - A...

Deadly Medicine

Posted on March 29, 2008
My daughter and I visited the Science Museum of Minnesota yesterday. (A very cool science museum, by the way, for children of all ages.) The museum is currently home to a circulating exhibit organized by the United States Holocause Memorial...

Turning the other cheek

Posted on March 28, 2008
This guy is my hero: (HT BoingBoing) · Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early, just so he can eat at his favorite diner....

"Forget Juno"

Posted on March 27, 2008
Slate's "Dear Prudence" has an insightful and concise column on the "national catastrophe" of out-of-wedlock births. Here's an excerpt: That out-of-wedlock births are a problem for society does get some political attention?the kind of attention that shows there's not a...

CA Court Will Rehear Homeschooling Case

Posted on March 27, 2008
The California Court of Appeal has granted a rehearing petition in the case in which it held that home-schooling parents must have teacher credentials and rejected any constitutional right to engage in home schooling. The Alliance Defense Fund news release...

In Gratitude to Chiara Lubich

Posted on March 26, 2008
I have just returned from Rome where I spent the hardest and most beautiful week of my life?. As many of you know, the founder of the Focolare Movement, Chiara Lubich, concluded her earthly journey on March 14, 2008. I...

Martin Marty on Jeremiah Wright

Posted on March 25, 2008
The Chronicle Review issue dated April 11, 2008 Prophet and Pastor To his former professor, congregant, and friend, Jeremiah Wright has been both By MARTIN E. MARTY Through the decades, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. has called me teacher,...

Huckabee on Wright

Posted on March 25, 2008
This seems right to me: And one other thing I think we?ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say ?That?s a terrible statement!??I grew up in a very...

Formation of the Well-formed Conscience

Posted on March 25, 2008
The endorsement released by Professor Doug Kmiec of Senator Obama?s candidacy is a potent reminder that each of us will soon have to make his or her own endorsement, or not, of candidates for public office within the privacy of...

ministerial exception

Posted on March 25, 2008
I have not yet had a chance to read Greg Kalscheur's article, but I'll just offer a quick comment. I know that is hazardous, but why should that stop me. (On March 21, 2008, the Second Circuit decided a case...

Kalscheur on the Ministerial Exception

Posted on March 25, 2008
MOJ-friend and -veteran Greg Kalscheur (Boston College) has a must-read paper on SSRN, "Civil Procedure and the Establishment Clause: Exploring the Ministerial Exception, Subject Matter Jurisdiction, and the Freedom of the Church." Here is the abstract: What sort of defense...

Boycott the Olympics?

Posted on March 25, 2008
Should political communities committed to what my friend Michael Perry calls "the morality of human rights" boycott the 2008 Summer Olympics in China? If not, why not? Some thoughts here.

The Corrupting and Incendiary Danger of Words of Racial Enmity

Posted on March 24, 2008
I appreciate Eduardo Peñalver?s posting on a version of black liberation theology, which I agree provides about as good of a defense of Dr. James Cone?s rhetorical choices as could be made (while thoughtfully acknowledging that he may be needlessly...

"The Abstinence Teacher"

Posted on March 24, 2008
Although I haven't read Tom Perrotta's novels Little Children and The Election, both made for excellent films (Tracy Flick for vice president!). So Perrotta's new book The Abstinence Teacher, whose plot-instigating device is a high-school sex-ed controversy, might well be...

"The Many Shapes of Personhood"

Posted on March 24, 2008
I rarely let myself click on YouTube videos, because the temptation to spend hours and hours on detours through that pit of inane, but utterly captivating, amusements is too great. But here's one you should NOT miss. I'm even presenting...

Law and Religion ... Summer ... Tuscany

Posted on March 24, 2008
That's what the University of Siena's annual International Law and Religion Summer School offers. I taught there two summers ago, enjoyed spending the week with faculty and students from throughout Europe, and highly recommend the program and the city (including...

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