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Evil

Posted on March 24, 2008
This is gut-wrenching. (ht: dotCommonweal).

Posted on March 24, 2008
An interesting story is developing in the United Kingdom, regarding the "Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill" under consideration in Parliament. Here is a bit: Fertility expert and television scientist Lord Robert Winston has accused senior members of the Catholic church...

"Testing Religious Freedom"

Posted on March 24, 2008
Here is an interesting story about a fairly high-profile new Catholic, and the risks he is taking in joining the Church.

Kmiec Endorses Obama

Posted on March 24, 2008
Doug Kmiec's interest in Barack Obama's candidacy has already been the subject of discussion here on MoJ, but now he's made it official, endorsing Obama for President.

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Should Sen. Obama leave his church?

Posted on March 23, 2008
Thoughts on this question from Prof. David Skeel, here.

God bless Bill Stuntz

Posted on March 23, 2008
Prof. Bill Stuntz (Harvard) is an excellent scholar and a deeply good man. Here is an update, from his blog, on his struggle with cancer. Oremus.

Easter Sunday and March Madness

Posted on March 22, 2008
I was born and raised in Louisville, KY. Got my undergraduate degree from Georgetown University. And lived in North Carolina for six years (1997-2003). So I have a dog in four games tomorrow: Go Louisville, Western Kentucky, Georgetown, and North...

Holy Saturday

Posted on March 22, 2008
Holy Saturday is treated by many as simply the time between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, when we ready the churches for the Easter Vigil and shop for Easter dinner. But, what Holy Saturday offers us is a period to...

Defending James Cone

Posted on March 22, 2008
Just a word about the easy attacks on Black liberation theology and the comparison to Farrakhan. I agree that Cone's language can seem inflammatory, and sometimes needlessly so. But he is actually very careful about how he defines his terms....

Valparaiso and the Fifth Anniversary of the Iraq War

Posted on March 21, 2008
[The author of what follows, professor of law Ed Gaffney, Jr., is, as some MOJ readers know, co-author with Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., of Religous Freedom: History, Cases and Other Materials on the Interaction of Religion and Government (Foundation...

Fear the Leprechaun

Posted on March 21, 2008
The Volokh Conspiracy's Todd Zywicki (George Mason) and I made a friendly wager (here and here) on last night's basketball game between George Mason and Notre Dame. As Stewie Griffin would say, "victory is mine." Go Irish. And, to paraphrase...

Pope Benedict's Upcoming Visit

Posted on March 21, 2008
One of the reasons I'm looking forward to Pope Benedict's upcoming visit to the U.S. is the hope that I can comfortably watch the evening news with my seven-year old daughter again. That's not been possible lately, between Spitzer, his...

China, Tibet, and Freedom

Posted on March 21, 2008
New York Times March 21, 2008 During Visit, Pelosi Offers Support to Dalai Lama By SOMINI SENGUPTA DHARAMSALA, India ? As far as visits by American politicians go, it would be hard to stage a warmer reception. Buddhist nuns waved...

Theology in Public Reason and Legal Discourse

Posted on March 20, 2008
MOJ friend Russ Powell, of Seattle University School of Law, has just posted to SSRN a working paper, Theology in Public Reason and Legal Discourse: A Case for the Preferential Option for the Poor. Here is the abstract: "There is...

An Easter thought

Posted on March 20, 2008
From Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi: Man is worth so much to God that he himself became man in order to suffer with man in an utterly real way?in flesh and blood?as is revealed to us in the account of...

"God and Man in China"

Posted on March 20, 2008
Bret Stephens writes, in the Wall Street Journal: The violent protests in Tibet that began last week and have since spread across (and beyond) China are frequently depicted as a secessionist threat to Beijing. But the regime's deeper problem in...

An Easter Reflection and Catholic Legal Theory

Posted on March 20, 2008
Early in the New Year of 2008 I posed several questions about our project of Catholic Legal Theory and end times?end times not in the context of final world conflagration, but in the sense of the destiny of the human...

Can the Law Educate? If so, how?

Posted on March 20, 2008
I received the following from a law student, and I think the student's profound questions go to the heart of our project at MOJ. Can the law educate? How can it educate? How should it account for human weakness, sin,...

Paul Scofield RIP

Posted on March 20, 2008
LONDON (AP) ? Paul Scofield, the towering British stage actor who won international fame and an Academy Award for the film "A Man for All Seasons," has died. He was 86. Scofield died Wednesday in a hospital near his home...

More on the California homeschooling decision

Posted on March 19, 2008
Several of us blogged, a few weeks ago, about the decision of a California state court involving homeschooling. Over at "On the Square", Joe Knippenberg has this detailed post and update. A taste: In the end, there?s no good substitute...

Gorbachev prays at St. Francis's tomb

Posted on March 19, 2008
I thought this story was fascinating. Peter Robinson writes: Whenever Ronald Reagan would mention his suspicion that Mikhail Gorbachev was a secret believer, everyone on the White House staff would scoff, thinking the president naive. When I had the opportunity...

"Corporate Religious Speech"

Posted on March 19, 2008
My student at Notre Dame Law School, Julie Baworowsky, has posted on SSRN an interesting paper which she wrote for my Freedom of Speech course. The paper is called "From Public Square to Market Square: Theoretical Foundations of First and...

Words of Shame, Hard Truth, and Even Anger are Not the Same as Words of Hate

Posted on March 19, 2008
For Catholics, and especially for those of us who are lawyers, we always remember the words of St. Thomas More as he was led to his execution: ?I die the King?s good servant, but God?s first.? A Catholic certainly may...

A "double standard"

Posted on March 19, 2008
I agree with Rob that Christians ought not to regard it as out-of-bounds for a Christian minister to call attention to America's sins, faults, and failings. Anyone who is moved by, say, Stanley Hauerwas (as I am) is not in...

Why Rev. Wright's Comments Matter

Posted on March 19, 2008
Bryan McGraw, MoJ reader and visiting fellow at Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion, responds to my post of Frank Schaefer's comments on Sen. Obama and Rev. Wright: Don?t you think Franky is being just a *wee*...

Bobbleheads at Ten Paces!

Posted on March 19, 2008
My friend Todd Zywicki (George Mason), of the Volokh Conspiracy, clings to the view that the George Mason's men's hoops team -- lead by "Gunston" -- will defeat my Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the first round of the men's...

A Double Standard on Damning America?

Posted on March 19, 2008
Is it more politically acceptable for pastors to "damn" America for abortion than it is for racism? We haven't yet discussed the interesting mix of faith, race, and politics underlying the controversy surrounding Barack Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright...

Stations of Good Things to Do

Posted on March 19, 2008
This time of year, it's important to reflect on Christ's journey by participating in the stations of the cross millenium development goals. From the department of "how has the Church survived so long without this?," the relief agency of the...

Bell tolls for Blaine(s)?

Posted on March 18, 2008
I received this notice from the religious-liberty litigators at the Becket Fund: Friday, March 14, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty is scheduled to present oral argument in St. Louis, MO, in support of Dan and Amy Pucket and their...

Should the 9-11 plotters be executed?

Posted on March 18, 2008
Bainbridge weighs in, here. Lots of links are included to others' views.

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