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A "Catholic" interpretation of the Establishment Clause?

Posted on April 13, 2010
Go here for Scot Powe's review of Donald Drakeman's Church, State, and Original Intent (Cambridge). The book is first-rate, in my view. (Full disclosure: I blurbed the book for the press.) After a generally helpful review, Powe concludes, oddly, with...

The Retirement of Justice Stevens, Q.E.D.

Posted on April 13, 2010
Much has been made how Justice Stevens? retirement will leave the Supreme Court without a single Protestant justice. Perhaps more significantly, his departure will also leave the Court with only one Mid-westerner (Roberts), and no Cubs fans. Yesterday morning Chicago...

Law Blog rankings

Posted on April 13, 2010
Paul Caron has posted his latest rankings of law-related blogs. Once again, Mirror of Justice came out well (ranked 26 in page views . . . with a total that was approximately 0.6% of Instapundit's.) I note that, in a...

Contra Koppelman: How "Red States" reduce abortion

Posted on April 13, 2010
Michael linked, the other day, to my friend Andy Koppelman's provocatively titled post, "How the Religious Right Promotes Abortion." (Obviously, Andy does not use the word "promote" to suggest that abortion-increases are intended by the "religious right...

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Christian Militias

Posted on April 13, 2010
Bloggingheads: Christians With Guns

Yale Historian Paul Kennedy on "The Church Adrift"

Posted on April 13, 2010
An op-ed in the April 14 edition of the International Herald Tribune: On Good Friday 1613, the English poet John Donne (then dean of St. Paul?s, London, but probably still a Catholic) was dispatched to the west of England on...

What "reason" is missing

Posted on April 13, 2010
A fascinating op-ed, in The New York Times, by the often-fascinating Stanley Fish, "Does Reason Know what it is missing?" Here's a bit (presenting Habermas): What secular reason is missing is self-awareness. It is ?unenlightened about itself? in the sense...

Michael Sean Winters on "the frustratingly poor quality of press coverage" [Updated]

Posted on April 12, 2010
Winter's post at America's blog (along with comments) is here. Related comments at dotCommonweal--114 as of this posting--are here. Update: And now, there's Eduardo Pe�alver's post--"Douthat's Defense of the Vatican"--here.

What did "the last Protestant on the Supreme Court" stand for?

Posted on April 12, 2010
We've heard from Eduardo and from Rick. My Emory colleague Robert Schapiro, who clerked for Justice Stevens in 1991-92, had this to say today, at CNN.com: What Justice Stevens stood for (CNN) -- With the retirement of Justice John Paul...

Katherine Kersten: You'd think the evil of sexual abuse was exclusive to the Catholic Church

Posted on April 12, 2010
Herewith excerpts from this column in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune (the full column is here: In 2004, a groundbreaking report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education found that 6 to 10 percent of children in public schools have been sexually...

Deja vu all over again

Posted on April 12, 2010
Whatever one thinks about the media coverage of you-know-what--in another man-bites-dog moment, I?m with Peggy Noonan in her WSJ piece--there is the you-know-what itself. Although many MOJ readers will disagree with me?so what else is new??I want to say it...

Sad, Disturbing News Reporting

Posted on April 12, 2010
Looking for thorough analysis from the news media today may be expecting too much -- the resources for newsroom budgets being what they are. However, what might be an unrealistic expectation is almost an ontological impossibility where the news involves...

Islamic Law and Constitutional Liberty at St. Thomas

Posted on April 12, 2010
Today at St. Thomas we're hosting a symposium on Islamic Law and Constitutional Liberty. Participants include Noah Feldman, MoJer Russ Powell, Haider ala Hamoudi, Ali Khan, Clark Lombardi, John Bowen, Joel Nichols, and Rep. Keith Ellison (the first practicing Muslim...

MOJer Eduardo Pe�alver, former Stevens clerk, on Justice Stevens

Posted on April 11, 2010
Eduardo and five others on their former boss, here.

Thank God for our priests

Posted on April 11, 2010
Yesterday, in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, I witnessed the ordination of two friends, Gerry Olinger (my former student) and Kevin Grove. It was an amazing, beautiful day. More than...

Penalver on Justice Stevens and religion

Posted on April 11, 2010
Here is a paper that Eduardo wrote, a few years ago, on the religious-freedom-related work and thinking of Justice Stevens: Justice Stevens has sometimes been caricatured as the Supreme Court Justice who hates religion, but an exploration of the cases...

Religious Liberty, Church Autonomy, and the Structure of Freedom

Posted on April 10, 2010
Here's a link to a book chapter I've done, for a forthcoming volume (edited by John Witte and Frank Alexander) on "Christianity and Human Rights." What is the ?right to freedom of religion,? a right which our leading human-rights instruments...

The Pope's "Christian Humanism"

Posted on April 10, 2010
Here's a story about a recent address by the Pope, recalling the "Christian humanism" exemplified in the lives of the saints. The story caught my eye, because we have so often -- here at MOJ -- emphasized the centrality of...

Of interest to MOJ readers

Posted on April 09, 2010
[From Insider Higher Ed:] Obama Names Academics to Bioethics Panel President Obama this week named the members of his administration's Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, including a number of academics. Obama had earlier named Amy Gutmann, president of...

No more Protestants on the Supreme Court -- should we care?

Posted on April 09, 2010
With Justice Stevens retiring, should we care that there might not be any Protestants on the Supreme Court? According to Rick -- via Nina Totenberg -- the more relevant divide is "religious-secular." Over at the Law Religion Ethics blog, I've...

Notre Dame "statement in support of life"

Posted on April 09, 2010
The University of Notre Dame's Task Force on Supporting the Choice for Life has "issued an institutional statement affirming its commitment to the defense of human life in all its stages. It also has adopted new principles for the institution?s...

Great news from Notre Dame!

Posted on April 09, 2010
No, they have not hired Brad Stevens away from Butler. It's even better: CONGREGATION OF HOLY CROSS TO ORDAIN TWO PRIESTS Notre Dame, Ind. ? With joy and thanksgiving, the Indiana Province of the Congregation of Holy Cross announces the...

Sad, disturbing news

Posted on April 09, 2010
NYT, 4/9/10 Kim Johnson/Associated Press Pope Put Off Punishing Abusive Priest By LAURIE GOODSTEIN and MICHAEL LUO The future Pope Benedict XVI, then a top Vatican official, signed a 1985 letter saying that a case needed more time and that...

Don't ask me how I feel about things as a Catholic

Posted on April 09, 2010
Rick has called our attention to Notre Dame's statement that, "[c]onsistent with the teaching of the Catholic Church . . . , the University of Notre Dame recognizes and upholds the sanctity of human life from conception to natural death."...

Wesley Smith on the upcoming puff-pic about (the loathesome) Jack Kevorkian

Posted on April 08, 2010
Here. . . .Jack Kevorkian is a dangerous nut who should be shunned, not celebrated. But you won?t see any of this in the movie, because HBO, the producers, and Pacino don?t know Jack. And the worst part is that...

Winters: "What the Crisis is not about"

Posted on April 08, 2010
At America: . . .One of the most surprising aspects of the reaction to the return of the clergy sex abuse scandal has been the way some commentators, especially those on the Left, have used the crisis to advance causes...

Berkowitz on Sarkozy and the veil

Posted on April 08, 2010
Peter Berkowitz discusses, in the Wall Street Journal, the recent announcement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that he intends to secure a ban on the full Muslim veil. Mr. Sarkozy's ban on the full veil represents a draconian measure for...

the level of analysis one some sometimes encounters

Posted on April 08, 2010
In light of her recent performance, I'd pretty much stopped reading Maureen Dowd, at least until Pentecost. Yesterday, though, I succumbed to the temptation to read "The Church's Judas Moment," her column in the NYT. Silly me. Most of her...

Emilio Estevez and "The Way"

Posted on April 08, 2010
Martin Sheen was literally the first pilgrim I met when I arrived in St. Jean Pied-de-Port, France to start my 500 mile walk across northern Spain on the Way - The Camino de Santiago. Although I didn't talk to his...

What is truth?

Posted on April 08, 2010
During this past Good Friday, the Passion of Our Lord according to the Gospel of St. John was proclaimed in many Catholic churches across the world. The Gospel contains an exchange between Jesus who states that he ?came into the...

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