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The Wisdom of Kristof

Posted on May 05, 2010
Yesterday at religiousleftlaw.com, I posted about Nicholas Kristof?s column on the two Catholic Churches. There I summarize: He said it ?may be easy at a New York cocktail party to sniff derisively at a church whose apex is male chauvinist,...

An Odd Reaction

Posted on May 05, 2010
I appreciate Susan's welcome reminder (here) that "we are one church," a reminder that is evocative (deliberately so, I suspect) of the Lord's prayer to the Father for His followers "That they may be one just as we are" (John...

Warsaw

Posted on May 05, 2010
I am in Warsaw, Poland where today I visited some extraordinary places commemorating the profound suffering of the people of this city and nation---Christians and Jews alike---at the hands of the Nazis and the Communists. It has been a deeply...

One Church

Posted on May 05, 2010
Since I'm on research leave and working on writing a book about my conversion from Catholicim to Buddhism and back to Catholicim, I confess I've been very neglectful of Mirror of Justice. I have been poking my head in from...

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The "Two Churches" mistake . . . and The New York Times

Posted on May 04, 2010
Kenneth Woodward observed recently that the NYT is a newspaper "with the soul of a church" -- a church that exercises (and sees itself as exercising) a "rival magisterium": . . . No question, the Times?s worldview is secularist and...

Charter schools hurt Catholic schools?

Posted on May 04, 2010
Paul Moses discusses, here, Diane Ravitch's new book on education policy, and her observation that: ?Where charter schools are expanding, Catholic schools are dying,? Ms. Ravitch said. ?But charter schools can?t do the same things. The Catholic schools have a...

"Wrong-headed friends"

Posted on May 04, 2010
Speaking of Steve Smith, he has a (characteristically) nice post, over at "Law, Religion, and Ethics", called "wrong-headed friends." Go read the whole thing.

Smith, "The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse"

Posted on May 04, 2010
I was delighted to receive in the mail the other day my copy of Steven Smith's latest book, "The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse." Run (or, double-click), don't walk, to get yours. As one of the back-cover blurb-ers (ahem, me) puts...

In the Unlikely Event of an Emergency...

Posted on May 04, 2010
Jeremiah Wooten, a student in my seminar exploring Catholic Perspectives on American Law writes: If there is a change in cabin pressure, oxygen masks will release from the panels above your seat. Pull the mask over your nose and mouth...

Counting the costs of early marriage

Posted on May 04, 2010
Jonathan Rauch has an interesting op-ed derived in part from the Cahn/Carbone book, Red Families v. Blue Families, which has prompted previous conversations on MoJ about policies toward contraception. I'm more interested in the economic dimension of the red state...

Arizona Immigration Law

Posted on May 04, 2010
I hope to find the time later to address the Arizona Immigration Law directly. For now I want use a Chesterton quote to reflect briefly on a potential motivating factors behind the law. To be clear, I think the new...

About Goldman Sachs

Posted on May 04, 2010
Hello All, Have been a bit busy of late with finance-regulatory developments, and so have not been posting on more fundamental matters. But there will presumably be more time for that soon. In the meanwhile, for any MoJ readers who...

"Abortion neutral"? Someone tell Planned Parenthood . . . [Part Two]

Posted on May 04, 2010
A couple of days ago, with respect to the continuing debate over the "abortion neutrality" of the new health-care law, Rick Garnett noted a story from Michigan about a Planned Parenthood decision in that state to open a new abortion...

Call for Papers: "Younger than Sin"

Posted on May 04, 2010
The annual Fall Conference of Notre Dame's Center for Ethics & Culture is, for me, always one of the highlights of the year. The theme for the next conference has been announced, and the call for papers is here: This...

Stanley Fish on the Mojave Cross case

Posted on May 04, 2010
Here's Fish, in the Times, writing about the recent decision in Salazar: It has become a formula: if you want to secure a role for religious symbols in the public sphere, you must de-religionize them, either by claiming for them...

A note from MOJ friend Pasquale Annicchino

Posted on May 03, 2010
The Italian law review Church and State, edited by Prof. Casuscelli at the University of Milan, has just published three essays on the "Italian crucifix case". Two of them are in Italian, one (mine) is in English. MOJ readers might...

Arizona Immigration Law, ctd.

Posted on May 03, 2010
No matter what you think of the question of illegal immigration, there's no denying that the Arizona immigration law will have a huge impact on legal resident Latino immigrants, naturalized citizens and even U.S. born Latino citizens (and, although the...

Has the First Amendment functioned pedagogically

Posted on May 03, 2010
London's Daily Telegraph is reporting a case of someone's having been arrested for expressing the view that homosexual conduct is morally wrong and sinful. Here is the link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7668448/Christian-preacher-arrested-for-saying-homosexuality-is-a-sin...

Bradley on anti-proselytism laws

Posted on April 30, 2010
My colleague, Gerard Bradley, has a very thoughtful paper up at The Immanent Frame about anti-proselytism laws, and the dangers they can pose to religious freedom, properly understood. In the paper, he engages those who "frame[s] the question in terms...

Infanticide

Posted on April 30, 2010
Recently, in Italy, a 22-weeks-old infant who had survived an attempted abortion -- the reason for the abortion, apparently, was the child's cleft-palate -- was found hidden but alive by a hospital chaplain, 20 hours after birth. The child died...

"Abortion neutral"? Someone tell Planned Parenthood . . .

Posted on April 30, 2010
Following up on Robby's post, from a few days ago, on the debate over the "abortion neutrality" of the new health-care law . . . this story, out of Michigan, caught my eye: [T]he new national health care law, combined...

More on the new Arizona law

Posted on April 29, 2010
Several of us have weighed in, with reactions to the new illegal-immigration-related law enacted in Arizona. (Disclosure: my family moved to Arizona 25 years ago, and I love the place.) My initial reaction was -- and I think my view...

Ominous judicial reasoning in the U.K.

Posted on April 29, 2010
Conscience battles show no signs of diminishing, particularly in the U.K. From today's London Times: Christianity deserves no protection in law above other faiths and to do so would be ?irrational? , ?divisive, capricious and arbitrary?, a senior judge said...

The danger (to chaplains) of "normalizing homosexuality" in the military

Posted on April 29, 2010
A group of retired military chaplains has written a letter to President Obama objecting to the repeal of the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy. (HT: Friedman) I support the repeal, but I can see how reasonable people can disagree about...

Health Care Reform: The Perspective of Physicians

Posted on April 29, 2010
Earlier this month, I completed a five-part series about the recently-enacted health care legislation, concluding that it was unlikely to succeed and that the cause of greater access to health care might be set-back rather than advanced by this irresponsible...

Violent Video Games

Posted on April 28, 2010
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case involving a California law, passed in 2005, prohibiting the sale or rental of violent games to anyone younger than 18. It defined such a game as one that includes "killing, maiming,...

Does the health care legislation expand the abortion license? Commonweal vs. Public Discourse

Posted on April 28, 2010
The editors of Commonweal say that the newly enacted health care legislation is "abortion neutral" and maintains the status quo ante on abortion. They accuse pro-life critics of the legislation of "crying wolf" about the legislation's expansion of the abortion...

Reading Amy Uelmen

Posted on April 27, 2010
A friend of mine, at the University of Chicago, passed on this helpful link, where many of our own Amy Uelmen's wonderful writings (and of others, who form a context for Amy's reflections) are collected. Take the day off ....

"The Permanent Scandal of the Vatican"

Posted on April 27, 2010
I thought that this essay, by Jody Bottum, captured well another sense in which "the Catholic Church" and "scandal" are connected: The day the Antichrist is ripped from his papal throne, true religion will guide the world. Or perhaps it?s...

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