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Smith, Conscience, and Catholic Legal Theory: Five years later

Posted on April 08, 2010
Here's a post, from April 2005, that I thought was worth re-visiting (in light of, among other things, our own Rob Vischer's new book on conscience): More Thoughts on Americans, Catholics, and Conscience For starters, Professor Steven Smith has written...

The role of law schools in great Catholic universities

Posted on April 08, 2010
Tomorrow, I am doing a "welcome address" for a large group of students who have been admitted to Notre Dame Law School. While thinking about things to say, I was going through some of the many MOJ posts we have...

"Why I Stay in the Church: A Parable from a Progressive Catholic"

Posted on April 07, 2010
The progressive Catholic is the novelist Mary Gordon. She writes: "Of the fate of contemporary Catholics, Flannery O'Connor once said that we must suffer at least as much from the Church as for it. Certainly, the past weeks have been...

How the Religious Right Promotes Abortion

Posted on April 07, 2010
That's the title of a new post by Andrew Koppelman. You can read it (and, if you want, comment) at ReligionLeftLaw or at Law, Religion, and Ethics

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Interesting reflections on why monogamous marriage matters ...

Posted on April 07, 2010
... and on celebrity threats to monogamous marriage, here. [Cross-posted at ReligiousLeftLaw.]

That our joy may be complete

Posted on April 07, 2010
In a recent edition of America (subscription required), Kathleen Norris has an Easter reflection titled "Something Wondrous is Afoot." As we begin this Easter season, she provides rich food for prayerful reflection. Her insights are also relevant, I think, to...

John Allen's "The Future Church": The Pentecostalism Trend

Posted on April 07, 2010
Over the past two months, the members of the Mirror of Justice have taken turns exploring John Allen's important new book titled ?The Future Church.? For each of the ten trends in the modern Catholic Church identified by Allen, one...

Another entry in the MOJ to-and-fro about the claim of media bias

Posted on April 07, 2010
[Lifted from NCR's blog, called NCR Today, where John Allen, among many others, posts.] That's not fantasy; it's fact. by Dennis Coday on Apr. 06, 2010 History professor Jonathan Zimmerman adds some prespective to the recent charges of media bias...

Well, there could well be a liberal Catholic argument with it

Posted on April 06, 2010
As Finnis, Boyle, and Grisez make clear, their critique of the morality of forming even a conditional intention to kill non-combatants (whether the weapons one is contemplating using are nuclear or conventional) depends entirely on the rejection of the putative...

Congrats to Daniel, and to Rick

Posted on April 06, 2010
Great game. Butler can hold its head high!

"Life is Good" (Take 2)

Posted on April 06, 2010
I am re-posting this, because I forgot to open comments on the original. And, I would welcome comments . . . Here is a short essay I did, for Notre Dame Magazine, which tries to connect "Jake" (the stick-figure guy...

A must-read interview with a worthy and admirable American Catholic

Posted on April 06, 2010
Here. You know who I'm talking about . . . There is no doubt that Mike Krzyzewski has enjoyed success in his life. But he also knows that a lot of people had something to do with that success. ?I...

What the Church says to the "little ones"

Posted on April 06, 2010
By Robin Darling Young professor of theology, University of Notre Dame A recent catch-phrase among anti-abortion Catholics goes: "What will you say to the babies?" It refers to the ancient belief that aborted infants will see harsh justice done to...

The Church as Victim in Abuse Scandal

Posted on April 06, 2010
I agree with Peggy Noonan that the Church should be thankful for the media coverage that provided the motivation to take the priest sexual abuse crisis seriously -- indeed, perhaps even to begin viewing it as a "crisis" in the...

Obama's Nanny State at Work

Posted on April 06, 2010
The administration's hunger for social control knows no bounds.

Bart Stupak, Revisited

Posted on April 06, 2010
No Coward: In praise of Rep. Bart Stupak's courage Created 04/05/2010 The Editors Making health-care reform ?abortion neutral? was never going to be easy. Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) was the first to demonstrate that it was possible, practically and politically...

Fordham philosophy prof Michael Baur weighs in ...

Posted on April 05, 2010
This morning, Fordham philosopher Michael Baur sent me this, which is posted on his blog: Boniface?s Papal Bull, Benedict?s Papal Bull? April 2nd, 2010 In his Divine Comedy, Dante tells us that Pope Boniface VIII belongs in the eighth circle...

What do my son Daniel and Rick G. have in common?

Posted on April 05, 2010
My family and I lived in North Carolina for six years (1997-2003). They were formative years for my son Daniel. When Daniel was applying to colleges a few years ago, he wasn't interested in applying to Duke. (Daniel is now...

The Jesuit editors at AMERICA on the USCCB's problematic judgment in the debate about healthcare reform

Posted on April 05, 2010
AMERICA, April 12, 1010 How Compelling? The administrative committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops gave a half-hearted welcome to news of the passage of the Obama administration?s health care reform bill. ?We applaud,? wrote Cardinal Francis George, the...

"Life is Good"

Posted on April 05, 2010
Here is a short essay I did, for Notre Dame Magazine, which tries to connect "Jake" (the stick-figure guy with the smile who's on all the t-shirts), Nick Wolterstorff, and human dignity. The bumper of my Jeep makes an appearance....

Public Relations and the Sex Abuse Crisis

Posted on April 05, 2010
In listening to the Bishops and the Vatican circling the wagons in support of the Pope, I first thought that Spiro T. Agnew had returned from the dead to advise the Church on how to respond to a crisis: blame...

This American Life on Former Monk/Fixer

Posted on April 05, 2010
[Cross posted at dotCommonweal] I heard this segment of This American Life on my way home today. It was a powerful story that, in my view, captures what is wrong (but at the same time almost inevitable) about how the...

Yuval Levin on why Obamacare is a catastrophe and how it should be repealed

Posted on April 05, 2010
In a series of posts on MoJ, our brother Greg Sisk has offered powerful criticisms of the Democrats approach to health care insurance reform. In the cover story of the new issue of the Weekly Standard, Yuval Levin, editor of...

No Catholic argument with this, right?

Posted on April 05, 2010
Breaking News Alert The New York Times Mon, April 05, 2010 -- 8:15 PM ET Obama Limits When U.S. Can Use Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON -- President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the...

Brother Hockett on Famous Blue Raincoat

Posted on April 04, 2010
Wow, Bob! What an interesting interpretation of both "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "Master Song." I had never considered anything remotely like the possibility of a Gnostic-reminiscent dualistic self-understanding on the part of Cohen himself. At first I thought: "That's a...

Thank God for the Latter-day Saints

Posted on April 04, 2010
At Easter mass today, our wonderful chaplain, Fr. Thomas Mullelly of Princeton's Aquinas Institute, invited us to take a few minutes to reflect on, and thank God for, the good things He has sent our way. Among the very first...

Friendship and real disagreement

Posted on April 04, 2010
In the March / April issue of Touchstone (go here for the magazine's "Mere Comments" blog), S.M. Hutchens writes: Friendship overcomes one of the greatest obstacles to truth in ecumenical conversation: unwillingness to understand the beliefs of others in meliorem...

The Passion of the Christ

Posted on April 03, 2010
I spoke to a friend today who told me that she and her husband were about to watch Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ," as they do each year on Good Friday. It has become part of their...

"The Convert"

Posted on April 03, 2010
A poem, by G.K. Chesterton, which seems fitting, as we prepare to welcome tonight thousands of adults into full communion with the Church: The Convert After one moment when I bowed my head And the whole world turned over and...

"Facing Death"

Posted on April 03, 2010
Here is our own Susan Stabile: Today we sit in the darkness. We have no liturgy. Instead, we simply contemplate death. We contemplate Jesus, who lies dead in the tomb. This is an important contemplation. Death is real and it...

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