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Certiorari Granted in Legislative Prayer Case

Posted on May 20, 2013
The Supreme Court has granted cert. in Town of Greece v. Galloway, a case out of New York in which the Second Circuit held in an opinion by Judge Guido Calabresi that the town's practice of allowing volunteer private citizens...

More on the legislative-prayer case

Posted on May 20, 2013
Following up on Marc's post, and also on the posts by Eugene Volokh and Paul Horwitz to which he linked, a few quick thoughts: First, I think it would be a good thing if the possibility Eugene raises - i.e.,...

Teresa Forcades, the radical Catalan nun on a mission ...

Posted on May 20, 2013
"Sister Teresa Forcades is one of Catalonia's foremost political figures, but uniquely for a faith-led figure in Spain, her ideology is feminist and left-wing. Against a backdrop of continued economic contraction and austerity, she spoke to the Guardian about the...

For Pentecost: Ignatius of Laodicea on the Holy Spirit

Posted on May 19, 2013
?Without the Holy Spirit, God is distant, Christ is merely a historical figure, the Gospel is a dead letter, the Church is just an organization, authority is domination, mission is propaganda, liturgy is only nostalgia, and the work of Christians...

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"Church law follows the theological reality of things."

Posted on May 18, 2013
A blog dedicated to "Catholic legal theory" should be interested in the fact of -- and the theory behind -- the ongoing revision of the law of the Catholic Church. Several times I've heard a U.S. Cardinal complain tht the...

Targeting, Unequal Application, and Free Exercise

Posted on May 17, 2013
This may be obvious to readers of this blog, but perhaps it's worth noting anyway in light of the somewhat loose way in which news outlets sometimes speak of "constitutional violations." Several places are reporting that non-profit organizations with religious...

Kinsley on Gay Marriage and Tolerance

Posted on May 17, 2013
This wlil show my age ... but Michael Kinsley was (paired with Robert Novak) the best host ever on Crossfire. Not a high bar, true; but they were quite good. He tends to be a contrarian liberal: the contrarian (increasingly...

Non sum Oedipus, sed Morus

Posted on May 16, 2013
I am greatly looking forward to participating toward the end of the month in a workshop on the thought of Sir Thomas More, to be held at the University of St. Thomas under the auspices of the excellent Murphy Center....

Collett on Gosnell

Posted on May 16, 2013
My colleague, Teresa Collett, wrote this powerful op ed for our local paper laying out why Kermit Gosnell could not be prosecuted in the state of Minnesota.

Public Discourse

Posted on May 15, 2013
Somehow, five days a week---week in and week out---Public Discourse, the on-line journal of the Witherspoon Institute, manages to post an illuminating and engaging essay on a significant issue in our public life. Yesterday it was Matthew Franck's powerful reflection...

?See the Victim?

Posted on May 15, 2013
Since Advent 2011 those of us who celebrate the Church?s divine liturgy in the Roman rite have made use of a new English translation, one that is more faithful to the original Latin text. For the most part, I have...

Rienzi on Gosnell . . . and the troubling rise in infanticide

Posted on May 15, 2013
"Gosnell's Crimes Not Uncommon" is the title of Prof. Mark Rienzi's piece in USA Today. Here's a bit: . . . While murder rates for almost every group in society have plummeted in recent decades, there's one group where murder...

"The Freedom of the Church (New Revised Standard Version)"

Posted on May 14, 2013
When it rains, it pours (interesting church-state scholarship, that is). Following up on my post about Paul Horwitz's new paper, here's another great offering on the same general topic, by John Inazu, called "The Freedom of the Church (New Revised...

"The Freedom of the Church Without Romance"

Posted on May 14, 2013
Paul Horwitz has posted a must-read paper called "The Freedom of Speech Without Romance." It's an important piece, by an important scholar, on an important subject. In it, Paul engages -- carefully, critically, fairly, challengingly -- with some of my...

My quick-reaction to the Gosnell verdict

Posted on May 14, 2013
Here's the instapunditry I did for National Review Online yesterday: It is a good thing that the Philadelphia jury convicted Kermit Gosnell of murder, because it is in fact clear that he committed murder. For the jury to have done...

No, we're not through with Kermit Gosnell

Posted on May 14, 2013
Abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted yesterday of first degree murder of three babies, has agreed not to appeal a sentence of life in prison in return for the prosecution's agreement not to seek the death penalty. Having publicly...

The Tragedy of Religious Freedom: Available Now

Posted on May 13, 2013
I'm pleased to announce that my new book, The Tragedy of Religious Freedom, is now available for purchase from Amazon (official publication date is June 1). Here is Harvard University Press's page for it. The book is specifically about the...

"Go home now," Cardinal Roger.

Posted on May 13, 2013
The Los Angeles Times expresses confusion, as we all should, about what the heck is going on in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Three months ago, Archbishop Gomez relieved his predecessor, Roger Cardinal Mahony, of "public duties" in the Archdiocese,...

Abortion on Trial

Posted on May 13, 2013
Late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell has been convicted of first degree murder for killing babies after delivering them alive. The trial now moves into the penalty phase, and we wait to hear whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty. But Dr....

Phenomenology of law

Posted on May 10, 2013
Legal Affinities: Explorations in the Legal Form of Thought is now available for purchase, and it's selling like hotcakes. Don't miss out! As previously mentioned, the book's eight chapters are studies of law's phenomenology inspired by the pathbreaking work of...

"Handwriting slows us down......"

Posted on May 09, 2013
As the academic year winds down, many of us academics and scholars are engaged right now intensively in either grading or writing. I just finished grading a group of final papers from my Consumer Law students. I was, as usual,...

Dallas Willard, R.I.P.

Posted on May 09, 2013
Dallas Willard died Wednesday at age 77. He was a USC philosophy professor and an important evangelical author whose writings on spiritual formation and spiritual disciplines helped greatly increase evangelicals' attention to those features of Christian faith and thought...

Same-Sex Marriage in Minnesota

Posted on May 09, 2013
The Minnesota House passed a same-sex marriage bill today, 75-59. The predictions are that the Senate will pass the bill (assuming the working out of conforming amendments) on Monday. For the record, here are two letters that our two groups...

Leadership by Deception?the Path to the New Totalitarianism

Posted on May 09, 2013
Recently the state of Rhode Island joined the ranks of those jurisdictions providing for the recognition of same-sex marriage. Within the U.S., Rhode Island makes the tenth state which recognizes the redefinition of marriage. Other jurisdictions, perhaps Delaware, will soon...

"Political Theology for a Plural Age"

Posted on May 08, 2013
This collection, edited by Michael Jon Kessler, looks really interesting. My friend, colleague, and neighbor Patrick Deneen has an essay in it called "The Great Combination: Modern Political Thought and the Collapse of the Two Cities." Here's the blurb: New...

"Absurd dichotomy"

Posted on May 08, 2013
Among the instructions Pope Francis just offered to the International Union of Superiors General is the following, which seems to speak directly to some of the issues frequently aired here at MOJ about what the Church asks of the faithful...

Catholicism and Liberalism: Raz or Rawls?

Posted on May 07, 2013
I apologize for light blogging of late, partly due to a lot of travel (including a wonderful visit to Scandinavia during the late winter) and administrative duties. A particular highlight was a visit to the Newman Institute for Catholic Studies...