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Eugenics

Posted on January 29, 2008
A Return to Barbarity Quest for Perfection Leads to Selective Killing of Unborn (for complete article, click here) By Father John Flynn, LC ROME, JAN. 28, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The quest for a perfect child is leading to the increasing use...

Pope's Lenten Message Focuses on Almsgiving

Posted on January 29, 2008
The Vatican today released Pope Benedict?s Lenten message, the theme of which is ?Christ Made Himself Poor for You.? The Holy Father focused his Lenten message on giving alms, "a specific way to assist those in need and, at the...

Catholic Blog Awards . . . Vote for us!

Posted on January 29, 2008
More info here. 2008 Catholic Blog Awards Coming Soon! Nominations for the 2008 Catholic Blog Awards will open this year at 12:00 Noon CST on Friday, February 15, 2008 and close on Friday, Febrauary 29, 2008 at 12:00 Noon CST....

The Eve of St. Agnes?Green Bay, 2008

Posted on January 29, 2008
Avery Cardinal Dulles is having a little fun over at the First Things Blog. Click here for Cardinal Dulles' parody of Keats poetry in a poem entitled "The Eve of St. Agnes - Green Bay, 2008."

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Happy Angelic Doctor Day!

Posted on January 28, 2008
Today is the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas.

"When Catholicism was the Target"

Posted on January 28, 2008
I have an op-ed in today's USA Today about the Pope's visit, JFK's speech, religion-and-politics, etc. Here's a bit: Now, perhaps it reflects poorly on the state of political oratory that one of the most discussed, and most interesting, candidate...

Free Exercise v. Parental Rights

Posted on January 28, 2008
Howard Friedman comments on a recent Oregon Supreme Court case dealing with a dispute between divorced parents over whether their 12 year-old son should be circumcised. The court ended up remanding the case for further fact findings (which is probably...

Darwin, Evolutionary Biology, and Theology

Posted on January 26, 2008
Ernan McMullin, now emeritus at Notre Dame, is. as some MOJ readers know, an Irish diocesan priest who is also one of the preeminent historians/philosophers of science of his generation. In the January 26th issue of The Tablet, McMullin has...

Faith and Alcoholism

Posted on January 26, 2008
No doubt some MOJ readers are dealing with, or have family members and/or friends who are dealing with, a drinking problem. For a terrific piece on alcoholism, religion, and related matters, I recommend this essay in the January 26th issue...

I don't normally blog about politics but ...

Posted on January 26, 2008
... this was just too good to pass up. Check out this article in the Onion. HT: Anthony Scaperlanda

More on Majerus

Posted on January 25, 2008
With respect to the dust-up about Rick Majerus's comments, about which Michael blogged here, a few thoughts: Like (I gather) Michael, I don't think, at the end of the day, it's reasonable to expect the President of Saint Louis University...

Judicial Independence?

Posted on January 25, 2008
It has been a busy and exciting week at the OU College of Law on the occasion of our alum Robert Henry?s investiture as Chief Judge of the 10th Circuit. The 10th Circuit has been sitting at OU all week....

A Mother's Sacrifice

Posted on January 25, 2008
Lorraine Allard died Jan. 18, 2008. After discovering cancer in her liver, Lorraine's doctors encouraged her to abort her unborn child so that she could begin treatment. She refused saying that "If I'm going to die, my baby is going...

Abortion, Basketball, and St. Louis University

Posted on January 25, 2008
Some of you may have heard about the controversy at St. Louis University, which is a Jesuit institution. Howard Wasserman, who contributes to the Sports Law Blog, has a post here--a post in which I concur. I must add that...

The Future of Marriage

Posted on January 25, 2008
[Thanks to Maggie Gallagher for this:] Can Marriage Survive? CATO UNBOUND January 14-21, 2008 Marriage isn't what it used to be. Though divorce has declined from its peak, marriage certainly is no longer considered an unbreakable covenant. For millions of...

Political Orphans in 2008

Posted on January 25, 2008
... is the title of this op-ed, which is subtitled: "Is There Space for Our Pro-Life Ethic?" The authors: Liz McCloskey, who is a doctoral candidate at the Catholic University of America, and Peter Leibold, who is former general counsel...

Come to Boston (College)

Posted on January 25, 2008
2008 Candlemas Lecture: Prophets, Priests, and Kings: Christianity, Confidence, and Humility in the Public Square D Cathleen Kaveny is the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School, where her seminars explore relationships among theology, philosophy,...

Jesuit, s�; Catholic, not so sure (source: David O?Brien, who coined the phrase many years ago)

Posted on January 25, 2008
I begin by thanking Rick and Michael P. for their postings on the matter Majerus at Saint Louis University. I am inclined, not because of how I feel but because of who I am?a Catholic and a Jesuit (I hold...

Valuing Human Life, Revisited

Posted on January 24, 2008
There is an excellent article in the Jan. 2-28 issue of America. The title: Church Teaching and My Father's Choice. The author: John J. Hardt, who is an assistant professor of bioethics at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health...

A Jesuit Martyr

Posted on January 24, 2008
"Alfred Delp, S.J., was hanged for high treason in Berlin-Plotzensee at the age of 37" writes Andreas Batlogg in the current issue of America. He could have avoided death - which came on Feb. 2, 1945 near the end of...

Code Pink to "Seamless Garment Party": No thanks

Posted on January 24, 2008
The story is here: "With regard to the war and this issue, it's very much the same thing," Liz Hourican, a Code Pink activist told Cybercast News Service. "This is about basic human rights - standing here and being able...

comment on Hardt's article

Posted on January 24, 2008
Here are a couple of quick comments on John Hardt's fine article in America (Church Teaching and My Father's Choice). I thought the article was well done. I have some reservations though. I don't think Hardt's approach is at all...

Scalia and the death penalty

Posted on January 24, 2008
I agree completely with Eduardo's recent post. I may not have made that clear when I briefly described Bob Fastiggi's article on this issue. Fastiggi's article is a critique of Justice Scalia's approach to this issue. Fastiggi takes the view...

Teaching Authority, Scalia, and the Death Penalty

Posted on January 24, 2008
In response to Richard's helpful cite, my initial reaction was the same as his. I thought Scalia was simply saying that the hierarchy's more recent teachings on the death penalty are noninfallible. But the more I considered his language, the...

Same-Sex Unions, Revisited

Posted on January 23, 2008
[This, from The Opinionator, New York Times online. As some of you know, I concur in Gore's position on this issue.] January 23, 2008, 5:25 pm Gore?s Gay Marriage Gambit By Tobin Harshaw It?s widely agreed that Al Gore, private...

levels of teaching authority

Posted on January 23, 2008
I am by no means an expert on this issue. There is a very good article on this question by my friend Bob Fastiggi entitled "Capital Punishment, the Magisterium, and Religious Assent." The article was published at 12 Josephinum Journal...

Question on Scalia/Death Penalty

Posted on January 23, 2008
Prof. Dave Douglas (William & Mary Law) sent me the following email: I am preparing a talk on the views of various religious groups -- including the Catholic Church -- on the death penalty. In an essay published in the...

Interesting Year at the Movies

Posted on January 23, 2008
This year we had three (IMHO opinion) good movies in which a main character faces an unplanned and unwed pregnancy: Knocked Up (I liked it despite its vulgarity), Bella, and Juno. I was pleasantly surprised to see Juno nominated for...

Interruptions

Posted on January 23, 2008
For some reason, I get particular spiritual nourishment from insights that bring home the reality of Christ's humanity. (For example, during a particularly protracted toilet-training struggle with one of my children, it ocurred to me that Mary had to toilet...

Defiant Birth

Posted on January 23, 2008
If you want a taste of what's in the Defiant Birth book that was the subject of Rick's recent post, it includes a slightly edited version of this essay I wrote about my experiences with prenatal testing. With that self-interest...

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