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More on Limbaugh and dependence

Posted on January 17, 2008
Michael P. are you also relishing the fact that probably for the first time in MOJ?s four year history another blogger can use our names interchangeably without the need for an identifying P or S? Rick, your point is well...

Schutt on Rush

Posted on January 17, 2008
Regent law prof (and author of a wonderful new book) Mike Schutt offers this response to my question about Rush Limbaugh's embrace of self-reliance: I think you have it pegged about right (and I think Michael hit this, too) so...

Actually, Michael . . .

Posted on January 17, 2008
. . . I think it does get "clearer than that." It is not at all obvious that Limbaugh was trying to make anything like Glendon's sophisticated, anthropological point. Limbaugh said he didn't want to be dependent, or "owe" people,...

The More Radical Dependency --"Let it be"

Posted on January 17, 2008
I wrote about some of the connections between the feminist critique of autonomy-based theories of justice (a la Glendon), its connection with Alisdaire MacIntyre's work in Dependent Rational Animals, and how Catholic thought enriches that critique, in the 2006 St...

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Limbaugh v. Glendon

Posted on January 16, 2008
Glendon: "Despite our attachment to the ideal of the free, self-determining individual, we humans are dependent, social beings. We still begin our lives in the longest period of dependency of any mammal. Almost all of us spend much of our...

More on "dependence"

Posted on January 16, 2008
I cannot pretend to know exactly what Rush Limbaugh was getting at, with the remarks that Rob quoted here. It seems unlikely, though, that he was proposing for our consideration a deep, well-considered moral-anthropology claim, i.e., a claim about the...

Glendon on dependency

Posted on January 16, 2008
I'm not sure whether, for Rob Vischer's purposes, Mary Ann Glendon counts as a "conservative" (she's marvelously hard to pigeonhole), but there's little doubt but that she speaks with a Catholic voice. And here's what she has to say about...

Rush's Radical Autonomy

Posted on January 16, 2008
I wouldn?t label myself ?conservative,? and I don?t know whether Rush?s views are within the main stream of American conservatism, but it seems to me that Rob is right that Rush?s views are disconnected from an authentic understanding of the...

A question for my conservative friends . . .

Posted on January 16, 2008
I know Rush Limbaugh does not speak for all conservatives, but he does seem to speak for a lot of them. National Review, for example, quoted a long excerpt from Rush's show yesterday with praise for this "steady voice of...

New Religion-Election Blog

Posted on January 15, 2008
A new blog, "Spiritual Politics," has been launched to cover "religion and the 2008 election campaign." Founder Mark Silk wrote a very fine book on religion and politics with the same title a number of years ago, and the bloggers...

Silver's Vast Scientific Conspiracy

Posted on January 15, 2008
In First Things, Ryan Anderson and Maureen Condic have written this response to Princeton biologist Lee Silver's arguments that there is no difference between human embryos and human skin cells, discussed here, here, and here. January 14, 2008 Professor Lee...

Be a Minister to Christ

Posted on January 15, 2008
Several MOJ contributors (including Rick Garnett, Richard Stith, Michael Perry, Michael Sacperlanda, and Tom Berg) have recently addressed issues relating to the roles of Catholics and other Christians in public life?be that life in the liturgy of the Church, in...

Wombs for Rent

Posted on January 15, 2008
In "Outsourced Wombs" an essay in the NYT, Judith Warner sees clearly the inhumanity of the surrogacy business but can't bring herself to condemn it completely because of the "good" it does by providing the poor with much needed cash...

Liturgy and Life continued

Posted on January 15, 2008
Tom asks "hasn't the invigoration of the laity in the last 40 years contributed to [inspiring huge numbers of average people to intense personal commitment, including commitment to the pro-life cause], and haven't those same 40 years also seen the...

The Church in Argentina

Posted on January 14, 2008
In reponse to Rick's question about the Church's activity during Argentina's "dirty war," my friend Andy Connolly, a diocesan priest in New York, writes: "As so often happens in Latin America and elsewhere, The Church (hierarchy & some laity) and...

Romney and JFK, Revisited

Posted on January 14, 2008
The New York Review of Books January 17, 2008 Romney and JFK: The Difference By Garry Wills The situations are superficially the same?presidential candidates trying to remove an obstacle to their election arising from their church membership. But the obstacles...

Upcoming APA Task Force Report on the Effects of Abortion

Posted on January 14, 2008
There is continuing reason to worry that the upcoming report of a panel of the American Psychological Association will be biased against the growing evidence that abortion harms women. Despite requests by Consistent Life and others to persuade the APA...

More on Liturgy and Life

Posted on January 14, 2008
Tom -- Thanks very much for reminding me to cast a wider empirical net before reaching any conclusions on whether the seeming relationship between the sacred in liturgy (e.g. the Host) and and the sacred in morality (e.g. unborn life)...

The Church and the Dirty War

Posted on January 14, 2008
Michael asks, "[w]ill someone please tell us what the Argentine bishops of the Catholic Church--my Church, our Church--were doing during [the "Dirty War" in Argentina]? And, what does it say that this 'Christian' nation was capable--and that these 'Christians' were...

How some view religion

Posted on January 14, 2008
In the latest NY Times Book Review, discussing a book by John Allen Paulos called "Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up," Jim Holt comments that mathematicians believe in God at a higher rate...

Pinker on Moral Instincts

Posted on January 13, 2008
For those who missed it, there's an interesting essay by Steven Pinker in today's NY Times Magazine on human beings' moral instincts. Here's a taste: The findings of trolleyology ? complex, instinctive and worldwide moral intuitions ? led Hauser and....

Unimaginable (Until Now) Depravity

Posted on January 13, 2008
Read this--and weep. Will someone please tell us what the Argentine bishops of the Catholic Church--my Church, our Church--were doing during this nightmare? And, what does it say that this "Christian" nation was capable--and that these "Christians" were capable- of...

Interesting Church-State Case Emerging

Posted on January 12, 2008
An MOJ reader sent this along, thinking--rightly--that other MOJ readers would be interested. State Files to Join Episcopal Case Attorney General Says Constitutional Issues Are at Stake By Michelle Boorstein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, January 12, 2008 The attorney...

Protestants and Traditionalism in Liturgy and Other Things

Posted on January 12, 2008
Thanks, Michael, for the interesting questions about Protestants. I'll leave the spiritual-discipline question for now. In response to Richard's post about the article on liturgy and life/moral issues, and Michael's question whether "Protestants (or subsets of Protestants) have similar fault...

Life, Liturgy, and Prayer

Posted on January 12, 2008
Thank you Richard for your post on Liturgy and Life and Tom for your post on Tony Campolo and the Spiritual Exercises. Two questions directed mainly toward Tom, our Protestant readers, and those who know much more about such matters...

Catholic Perspectives on Law course at Oklahoma

Posted on January 11, 2008
This spring I will be teaching a seminar on Catholic Perspectives on Law using Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law as the primary text. Supplemental reading will be from the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church,...

Respect/Reverence: the link between liturgy and life

Posted on January 11, 2008
In the report linked below, John-Henry Westen finds it strange that there is a de facto connection between cultural and liturgical activists. It seems to me that the explanation for this (frequent, certainly not universal) connection lies in a common...

Spiritual Exercises and Social Activism

Posted on January 11, 2008
Responding to the problem of burnout among religiously motivated social activists, Tony Campolo, a leading evangelical activist himself, has co-written a new book on spiritual exercises: Far too often, activists do little to nurture their souls. Consequently, they "burn out...

Family Pets, Animal Welfare, and Catholic Teaching

Posted on January 11, 2008
Given the vital human importance of most of the subjects addressed on the Mirror of Justice ? human flourishing in communities, war and treatment of captured combatants, the sanctity of life of the unborn, etc. ? a posting about the...

More good stem-cell news

Posted on January 11, 2008
The story is here. UPDATE: Or maybe not. Reader Jonathan Watson writes: I disagree with you that being able to harvest stem cells from embryos without killing them is a good thing. I think it raises the prospect of embryos...

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