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The Death of Pope John Paul II

Posted on April 02, 2010
A nice reflection, by John O'Herron: ?He was as alone as a man can be,? the Polish journalist Jerzy Turowicz remarked of John Paul II at the moment of his election. At his death on April 2, 2005, between the...

Good Friday

Posted on April 02, 2010
Here is a bit from Fr. Richard John Neuhaus's Death on a Friday Afternoon: "Through Mary he received his humanity, and in receiving his humanity received humanity itself. Which is to say, through Mary he received us. In response to...

The humiliation of crucifixion

Posted on April 02, 2010
Fr. Ronald Rolheiser has a powerful meditation for Good Friday. ...Interestingly there is a striking parallel between what crucifixion did to the human body and what nature itself often does to the human body through old age, cancer, dementia, AIDS...

Peggy Noonan in the today's Wall Street Journal on the allegation of media bias against the Catholic Church

Posted on April 02, 2010
"In both the U.S. and Europe, the scandal was dug up and made famous by the press. This has aroused resentment among church leaders, who this week accused journalists of spreading 'gossip,' of going into 'attack mode' and showing 'bias.'...

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"Holy Thursday"

Posted on April 01, 2010
If you have never read "Holy Thursday", by Francois Mauriac . . . take a look.

Famous Blue Raincoat

Posted on April 01, 2010
The song's motif is a 'love triangle,' though it's unclear whether the events constituting the triangle ever occurred outside of Cohen's imagination. The same motif, of course, marks the narrative of LC's remakable novel, Beautiful Losers. I think it's also...

Easter Triduum

Posted on April 01, 2010
May our focus over the next few days be on the one who came to save us all so that we might live with him forever: RJA sj

A response to Perry, and Schoenborn

Posted on April 01, 2010
In his recent re-posting of the Reuters report on Cardinal Schoenborn, Michael highlighted the following text: Schoenborn has been one of the most open prelates toward victims' abuse groups and has dismissed tendencies in the Church to sidestep criticism by...

Of Leonard Cohen, Marriage, and Well-Being

Posted on March 31, 2010
My wife Sarah and I are HUGE Leonard Cohen fans, but we had not see the video Robby posted. Thanks, Robby. Many MOJ readers will be interested in David Brooks' column yesterday, which has some things to say about marriage,...

Hell

Posted on March 31, 2010
Lisa Miller, who has a recent book on heaven, (for discussion, see http://www.religiousleftlaw.com/2010/03/heaven-.html) maintains that 80% of Americans believe in heaven, but belief in hell is plummeting. She argues that this phenomenon is attributable to the rise in the view...

Marriage . . . . many, many years

Posted on March 31, 2010
If you haven't seen the official video of Leonard Cohen's "Dance Me to the End of Love," it is something you don't want to miss: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PIadFsvDk (Warning, do not watch without handkerchief in hand.)

"Remember that you once were . . . "

Posted on March 31, 2010
I think that Michael Walzer is right about the potential value of ceremonial acts of remembrance. Where we are tempted to commit (or abet or ignore) injustices, sometimes a ceremonial enactment of remembering our own vulnerability could help us to...

Glenn Beck?

Posted on March 31, 2010
Gee, and I thought America's "village idiot" was Keith Olbermann. I guess I didn't get the memo from the New York Times editorial board (or whoever it is who determines these things). Rick, did you get the memo? Greg?

Another Leonard Cohen Fan

Posted on March 31, 2010
Just wanted to add one of my favorite Leonard Cohen songs to the list: Everybody Knows. I played this for retreatants one day during an 8-day retreat I gave titled Embracing Mary. I played this during a segment on Mary,...

Leonard Cohen, Jerry Cohen, Nick Drake, & cet.

Posted on March 31, 2010
Greetings, All, It's delightful to find something during Pesach and Holy Week that a number of us here can agree upon with enthusiasm -- the wonderful Leonard C. For what it might be worth, this here's my favorite of the...

One more thing about Leonard Cohen, and a request for Robby

Posted on March 31, 2010
Robby just mentioned LC's first album, which was released in 1968 (as I recall), and is a masterpiece. Three songs from that album became the soundtrack to Robert Altman's "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1974?)--which is one of the greatest American...

More and more parents are opting for school-homing

Posted on March 31, 2010
This just in: According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Education, an increasing number of American parents are choosing to have their children raised at school rather than at home. Deputy Education Secretary Anthony W. Miller...

MOJ gets results! Duke apologizes to pro-life group

Posted on March 31, 2010
No doubt as a result of this Duke fan's complaining, "the Duke University Women's Center has issued a letter of apology after it denied the campus pro-life student group space for an event on motherhood. The center abruptly canceled a...

Leonard Cohen

Posted on March 31, 2010
Thanks, Michael. I'm delighted to know that you and your wife are huge fans of Leonard Cohen. I am too. As it happens, Cornel West last week mentioned Cohen during the seminar he and I are teaching together. It seems...

Leonard Cohen, pro-life troubador

Posted on March 31, 2010
Professor Carson Holloway of the University of Nebraska has pointed out the powerful and in some cases very explicit prof-life sentiments in some of Leonard Cohen's songs, including "The Future," "Diamonds in the Mine," and (depending on the interpretation) "Dance...

. . . sincerely, L. Cohen

Posted on March 31, 2010
Thanks to Brother Michael P. for inviting me to post a video of my renditions of songs by Leonard Cohen in seminar today. Unfortunately---or maybe not so unfortunately---we didn't record. It was great fun, though, and "Nancy," whose story and...

Vienna Cardinal: Church Must Accept Guilt on Abuse

Posted on March 31, 2010
Reuters, March 31, 2010 VIENNA (Reuters) - The Catholic Church as a whole must accept its guilt and its collective responsibility for sexual abuse committed by its members, Vienna Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said on Wednesday. Schoenborn was addressing 3,000 believers...

Call for Papers: Religious Legal Theory at St. John's

Posted on March 30, 2010
RELIGIOUS LEGAL THEORY CONFERENCE: RELIGION IN LAW AND LAW IN RELIGION Center for Law, Religion, and the Global Community St. John?s University School of Law New York November 5, 2010 This annual symposium, to be shared among different law schools...

The Wheel Turns . . .

Posted on March 30, 2010
"New York Recognition of a Legal Status for Same-Sex Couples: A Rapidly Developing Story" New York Law School Law Review, Vol. 54, 2009/10 NYLS Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09/10 #24 ARTHUR S. LEONARD, New York Law School Email: aleonard@nyls.edu...

A Response to George Weigel's Criticism of the Times

Posted on March 30, 2010
Paul Moses, who teaches journalism at Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, responds to Weigel at dotCommonweal, here. An excerpt: "I don?t agree with his analysis. The reason goes back to something I told the U.S. bishops when...

Oh, Duke . . . why do you make it so hard?

Posted on March 30, 2010
Alright, sure . . . Duke is the greatest college basketball program, and Coach K. is the best coach in college basketball. No room for (what my friend Michael Perry would call) "reasonable" disagreement there. But . . . sometimes...

James Martin, SJ, of AMERICA and (Catholic) Stephen Colbert skewer America's Village Idiot, Glenn Beck

Posted on March 30, 2010
Here.

THE NATION has printed a pro-life letter, without any editorial rebuttal

Posted on March 30, 2010
The Nation (April 5, 2010) has printed a letter from pro-life feminist Sharon Long. Excerpts: "Abortion violates the basic tenets of feminism: nonviolence, non-discrimination and justice for all. ... I became a prolife feminist thirty years ago when, as a...

Kende on "Quebec and Religion"

Posted on March 30, 2010
My friend Prof. Mark Kende (Drake) has an interesting post, over at the "Comparative Constitutions" blog, "Quebec and Religion": Legislation has been introduced in Quebec to ban women from covering their faces when seeking or providing provincial services...

Columbia Pro-Life Symposium

Posted on March 30, 2010
On Friday, April 9, Columbia's School of Law is hosting a daylong, legal symposium, "Looking Back, Looking Forward: Pro-Life Strategy and Jurisprudence for the 21st Century." More information is available here. Our own Amy Uelmen, among many others, will be...

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