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Reviving Scholastic Usury Theory

Posted on March 02, 2008
Brian McCall, University of Oklahoma College of Law, wrote with his reaction to the recent article by Professors Peterson & Graves, "Usury Law and the Christian Right," the subject of a recent post. Brian has just written an article concluding...

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What Orwell saw...

Posted on March 02, 2008
David Scott has an insightful article at Godspy on Benedict XVI as the Pope of hope. "In an unsigned review printed in the New English Weekly in 1932, George Orwell remarked: ?Very few people, apart from Catholics themselves, seem to...

Benedict XVI's Address to Ambassador Glendon

Posted on March 01, 2008
VATICAN CITY, FEB. 29, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Here is the address Benedict XVI gave today in English upon receiving in audience Mary Ann Glendon, the new ambassador of the United States to the Holy See. * * * Your Excellency, It...

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Ambassador Glendon's Address to Benedict XVI

Posted on March 01, 2008
"An Essential Element of Strong Friendship Is Ongoing Conversation" VATICAN CITY, FEB. 29, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Here is the address Mary Ann Glendon, the new ambassador of the United States to the Holy See, gave today upon presenting her credentials to...

Credit When It's Due

Posted on February 29, 2008
While I find all this ?renounce? and ?reject? stuff a bit silly, as long as we?re playing that game, what is good for the goose should be good for the gander. With that in mind, I want to give credit...

America Magazine on Castro and Cuba

Posted on February 29, 2008
America Magazine has an editorial on Castro and Cuba in their March 10 edition. Here is my wife Maria's reaction: "What a disappointing editorial on Cuba and Fidel Castro! I am one of the Cuban American refugees that you label...

The Immanent Frame

Posted on February 29, 2008
Not long ago Rick Garnett recommended a blog titled The Immanent Frame: Religion, Secularism, and the Public Sphere. Today a post of mine appears on blog--a post about whether under the establishment clause religious rationales are a legitimate basis of...

Dying to Live: A Migrant's Journey

Posted on February 29, 2008
Fr. Daniel Groody, CSC, was on my panel Wednesday afternoon at the Gilvary Symposium at the University of Dayton School of Law. As part of the panel, he showed his 30 minute documentary "Dying to Live: A Migrant's Journey," which...

Fr. Sirico on Buckley

Posted on February 29, 2008
Fr. Sirico of the Acton Institute has this reflection on William F. Buckley: WFB: In Memoriam Having been my father's remote control, I recall one Sunday afternoon in the 1960s being told to stop and back up to the "educational...

We're Number 26! We're Number 26! . . .

Posted on February 28, 2008
. . . on this list of the "most influential law blogs." Hoo-rah.

"Reproduction and Public Discourse"

Posted on February 28, 2008
From the First Things blog, this by Ryan Anderson: Benedict XVI recently asked the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to turn its attention to the ethical challenges that new biotechnologies pose. Aware that the Church ?cannot and should...

New blog! Stuntz and Skeel!

Posted on February 28, 2008
MOJ readers (and other sentient bipeds) will be familiar with the work of Professors Stuntz and Skeel. Well, they have a blog, "Less than the Least." Many of us here have had provocative and challenging conversations, and disagreements, with Stuntz...

Buckley, hope, and faith

Posted on February 28, 2008
When I was young -- about 15 or so, I think -- my mother took me to an event, in Anchorage, Alaska (where I lived), at which William F. Buckley was the speaker. (I think it was a Rotary-type civic...

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Posted on February 28, 2008
New York Times, 2/28/08 1 in 100 Americans Are Behind Bars By Adam Liptak For the first time in the nation?s history, more than one in 100 American adults is behind bars, according to a new report. Nationwide, the prison...

The Presidential Election and Abortion, cont'd

Posted on February 28, 2008
I hope that MOJ readers (and others) who read Matthew Boudway's open letter to Deal Hudson (to which Michael linked, here) will also read Ramesh Ponnuru's recent piece, "Conscientious Voting," here. A taste: Feuerherd asks, ?[I]s it fair for a...

The Costs of Sprawl

Posted on February 28, 2008
Add world hunger as another cost of sprawl.

The Presidential Election and Abortion Politics

Posted on February 27, 2008
There is an especially interesting and important post over at dotCommonweal--a post that could not be more relevant to us here at MOJ in the political season now upon us. I've pasted it below. (The author of the post is...

William F. Buckley, Jr., Is Dead at 82

Posted on February 27, 2008
May he rest in peace. An obituary is here.

Soft-core atheism

Posted on February 27, 2008
John Haught criticizes the spate of recent "God is evil/dead/non-existent" books for espousing a much softer, blander atheism than the bold atheist frameworks of the past: [T]he recent atheist authors want atheism to prevail at the least possible expense to...

"No Law Respecting the Practice of Religion"

Posted on February 26, 2008
A heads up from MOJ friend Andrew Moore on what looks to be a fantastic event in Detroit on March 18: The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law welcomes Dr. Leslie Griffin, Larry and Joanne Doherty Chair in Legal...

Immigration Symposium at Dayton

Posted on February 26, 2008
If you are in the Dayton, Ohio area this Wednesday or Thursday (Feb. 27-28), check out the Gilvary Symposium on Law, Religion, & Social Justice at the University of Dayton School of Law. This year's conference is entitled "Justice for...

The faith of our childhood

Posted on February 25, 2008
According to an interesting piece in today's New York Times, "[m]ore than a quarter of adult Americans have left the faith of their childhood to join another religion or no religion, according to a new survey of religious affiliation by...

Marriage and the State

Posted on February 25, 2008
My colleague John Witte, who directs Emory's Center for the Study of Law and Religion, had a terrific op-ed in yesterday's Atlanta Journal Constitution. Many MOJ readers will be interested. The future of marriage State laws and religious laws cannot....

Obama and Educational Reform

Posted on February 25, 2008
As has often been displayed in discussions on the Mirror of Justice, many of us believe that the most powerful engine for social justice and economic advancement for every class of Americans is high quality education. And many of us...

Stuntz v. Sunstein (?)

Posted on February 25, 2008
Last week we discussed Bill Stuntz's recent essay, in which he asserts that "[c]ultures are powerful and mysterious things; the idea that laws and politicians can direct their paths is, to say the least, lacking in empirical support." In a...

The Dutch Dominicans, Revisited

Posted on February 24, 2008
This, from The Tablet, Feb. 9, 2008: A LEADING theologian and key critic of Pope Benedict has rushed to the defence of the Dominicans? Dutch province after it was silenced by the order for suggesting that lay ministers be allowed...

Congrats to MOJ-er Greg Sisk ...

Posted on February 24, 2008
... on the publication of his casebook. Litigation with the Federal Government: Cases and Materials GREGORY C. SISK University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) U of St. Thomas Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-36 Gregory C. Sisk, LITIGATION....

"Churches weigh in on same-sex marriage"

Posted on February 22, 2008
[HT: Maggie Gallagher.] San Francisco Chronicle February 18, 2008 Churches weigh in on same-sex marriage Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer The legal battle over same-sex marriage in California is also a clash of religions. As the state Supreme Court prepares...

The Vatican and the '08 Presidential Race

Posted on February 22, 2008
MOJ readers will be interested in what Vatican savant John Allen has to say, here.

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