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More on Oklahoma City
Posted on April 19, 2010My wife, Maria, was asked by U.S. Catholic today to guest blog her reflections on the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Comments and memories are open and invited on that blog.
Institute for Policy Research &
Posted on April 19, 2010Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies & U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops The Ethics of the Obama Administration?s Nuclear Weapons Policy: Catholic Perspectives The Catholic Church has long offered a prominent voice on the ethics of U.S. nuclear weapons...
ZEN POEM
Posted on April 19, 2010by the wonderful Jesuit poet and peace activist, Daniel Berrigan _________________________________________________________ How I long for supernatural powers! said the novice mornfully to the holy one. I see a dead child and I long to say, Arise! I see a sick...
Bill Clinton joins Michael Scaperlanda in memoriam
Posted on April 19, 2010April 19, 2010 What We Learned in Oklahoma City By BILL CLINTON FIFTEEN years ago today, the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City claimed the lives of 168 men, women and children. It was, until 9/11,...
A Church Mary Can Love
Posted on April 19, 2010By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF I heard a joke the other day about a pious soul who dies, goes to heaven, and gains an audience with the Virgin Mary. The visitor asks Mary why, for all her blessings, she always appears...
Church in worst credibility crisis
Posted on April 19, 2010Church in worst credibility crisis since Reformation, theologian tells bishops HANS KÜNG Fri, Apr 16, 2010 Pope Benedict has made worse just about everything that is wrong with the Roman Catholic Church and is directly responsible for engineering the global...
"The Sisters' Witness"
Posted on April 19, 2010Editorial, AMERICA, April 26, 2010 Thousands of U.S. women religious have just staked their public credibility in the cause of health care reform, during one of the most polarized civic debates in decades. These women with a vow of poverty...
"A Very Brief History of Eternity"
Posted on April 18, 2010I am reading a fascinating, beautifully written book by Carlos Eire, called "A Very Brief History of Eternity." In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana,...
A question about the prelature of Opus Dei and the abuse scandals
Posted on April 18, 2010I asked a friend who is a member of the prelature of Opus Dei how his organization deals with sexual abuse cases involving its lay or clergy members. He replied that he didn't know of any cases in which a...
A Supreme Court without Protestants?
Posted on April 17, 2010I have an op-ed in today's "weekend" edition of the Wall Street Journal called "The Minority Court" (I didn't pick the title). Here's a bit . . . Those who founded our nation would certainly have been surprised by much...
"Is there any student more alienated and marginalized on campus . . . ?"
Posted on April 17, 2010Struggling Alone by Ryan T. Anderson He came out to me in an email. I've known him for years, long enough that I can't remember when we first met, and we were recently emailing back and forth about our lives,...
Bloody Kansas
Posted on April 17, 2010When I talk to self-identified pro-choice people, they usually say that, of course, they are opposed to late-term abortions and support their legal prohibition. Certainly a viable or nearly viable child ought not to be deliberately killed. But when it...
"Why Wouldn't Gay Parents Pick a Catholic School?"
Posted on April 16, 2010To be honest, we never expected a welcome. We certainly never expected an invitation. But there we were, five years ago, two women in our pastor?s office, letting him know that we were a couple (in case he hadn?t picked...
Save the date for this fall's CST conference at Villanova
Posted on April 16, 2010It's going to be amazing: Joseph T. McCullen Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Law Symposium on Jean Porter, Ministers of the Law: A Natural Law Theory of Legal Authority (Eerdmans, 2010) Villanova University School of Law October 22, 2010...
Will the public support a pro-life pharmacy?
Posted on April 15, 2010In my new book (remember, nothing says "Happy Spring!" to a loved one like a book exploring the relational dimension of conscience), I urge both sides in the conscience debate to spend less time trying to win the zero-sum legal...
Sherry Colb on Nonhuman Animals in Jewish Law
Posted on April 15, 2010Hello All, I'd like to recommend to all MOJ readers Sherry Colb's latest post over at Dorf on Law, the subject of which is Baby Animals in Jewish Law. You can find it here: http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2010/04/baby-animals-and-jewish-law.html . While I am at...
The Glory of Poland
Posted on April 15, 2010Roger Cohen has a wonderful op-ed piece in the New York Times, The Glory of Poland, for those of us trying to make sense out of the recent death of 95 of Polish's top leaders on their way to commemorate...
Grant Gallicho responds to Michael Sean Winters (and to Fr. Fessio)
Posted on April 15, 2010Earlier, I linked to Michael Sean Winters on "the frustratingly poor quality of press coverage", here. (Later, John Breen linked to Fr. Fessio covering much the same ground as Winters, here.) Now, Grant Gallicho of Commonweal has critiqued Winters (and,...
Obama's new rule on hospital visitation
Posted on April 15, 2010Other than federalism concerns, is there any reason for Catholic legal theorists to object to President Obama's instruction to HHS to promulgate a rule requiring any hospital participating in Medicare or Medicaid to allow patients to designate hospital visitors, including...
The fire of faith
Posted on April 15, 2010As George Weigel has noted, the long Lent of 2002 has extended into the Lent and Easter of 2010. Much has been said and much will be said about sexual abuse, the Church, sin, conversion, forgiveness, just punishment, and God?s...
"The Better Pope"
Posted on April 14, 2010In his column yesterday, Ross Douthat, speaking of the papacy of John Paul II, wrote: "The church?s dilatory response to the sex abuse scandals was a testament to [John Paul's] weaknesses. So was John Paul?s friendship with the Rev. Marcial...
Connecticut's statute-of-limitations proposal
Posted on April 14, 2010The Connecticut Catholic Conference is urging Catholics to oppose the enactment of H.B. 5473, which would "completely eliminate the existing 30 year statute of limitations relating to sexual abuse of a minor." To its credit, the Hartford Courant (not exactly...
What explains the frequent tone deaf comments by Church leaders?
Posted on April 14, 2010The media coverage of the Church's response to sexual abuse by priests has not always been fair, but Church leaders sure aren't helping matters. Blaming pedophilia on homosexuality seems irresponsible, at best. This is an area that is so inflammatory,...
Thinking Small
Posted on April 14, 2010At the Front Porch Republic, Jason Peters has a post on the importance of thinking small and lcoal. On MOJ, when issues turn from "law" to broader policy or political issues, the focus tends to be national. Should Catholic legal...
Who knew Catholic legal theory would be so "sticky?"
Posted on April 14, 2010We may not be at the top of the blogosphere when it comes to overall traffic, but we are second only to Volokh when it comes to "stickiness" -- i.e., the length of the average visit. Paul Caron has the...
Maybe pro-life didn't lose so badly after all.
Posted on April 14, 2010The Nation,a strongly "pro-choice" left weekly, had an article in its April 19 issue in which it said,"The healthcare reform debate exposed the weakness of the prochoice movement....The picture that emerged wasn't pretty, as supporters of choice found that they...
"Should I stay or should I go?"
Posted on April 13, 2010by Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. [The Tablet's lead-in:] As the scandal of child sexual abuse and its cover-up swirls around the Church, some Catholics are considering their options as regards their very membership of the institution. Here a former Master of...
Articles: (1) SSM and Religious Liberty, and (2) Religious Symbols
Posted on April 13, 2010As an associate dean, I've found it next to impossible to have time to post on MOJ. But every once in a while I want to show up to let people know I still exist. So here are abstracts from...
FORDHAM CENTER ON RELIGION AND
Posted on April 13, 2010FORDHAM CENTER ON RELIGION AND CULTURE AND AMERICA MAGAZINE Immigration Reform A Moral Imperative Monday, 3 May 2010 | 6 ? 8 p.m. Pope Auditorium | Lincoln Center Campus Fordham University | 113 West 60th Street From America?s first days,...
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Is there a time limit where someone can't be convicted of a sexual crime after the child has told someone?
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