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The Nun Who Kissed Elvis

Posted on February 21, 2011
In the days between my two Saturdays of watching all 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees with my son, my thoughts tend to focus on Hollywood. But, lest you have any doubt about the fact that God's radical call can come...

The Nature of Secularism

Posted on February 21, 2011
Much of the dialogue surrounding political and legal reform in the Middle East revolves around visions of secularism, which are usually meant to frame the relationship between religion and the state. In the most recent issue of Commonweal, Charles Taylor...

Bernard Nathanson, RIP

Posted on February 21, 2011
Bernard Nathanson has died at the age of 84. After overseeing about 75,000 abortions, he became pro-life in 1979.

Depravity -- or, Legal Moralism's Protective Dimension

Posted on February 21, 2011
Criminal law teachers and scholars know that an unintentional killing evincing a "depraved mind" (or "heart") historically has constituted murder -- one whose culpability is generally on a par with an intentional killing. As part of my efforts this year...

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To Tell the Truth

Posted on February 20, 2011
Hadley Arkes (here) and Peter Kreeft (here) have now joined the debate over the morality of Live Action?s video recordings of Planned Parenthood workers who, in numerous instances, appear to ignore not only the law but the plight of underage...

End the Subsidy for Commercial Broadcasters?

Posted on February 18, 2011
House Republicans are proposing to end the subsidy to public broadcasters purportedly as a deficit cutting measure. If they were serious about that and if it were not an ideologically motivated exercise, Republicans should jump at the chance to eliminate...

Obama conscience regulations

Posted on February 18, 2011
. . . have just been released. Read them here. (Please read them before commenting on them.) UPDATE: An encouraging opening paragraph in light of our earlier discussion: "Neither the [Bush] 2008 final rule, nor this Final Rule, alters the...

The Endurance of the Used and Rare Bookstore

Posted on February 18, 2011
A long time ago, I was fortunate to work part time for about a year at a used and rare bookstore called McIntyre and Moore Booksellers (they were on Mt. Auburn Street back then, not way off in Porter Square)....

The Obama conscience regs: not disastrous, but cause for concern

Posted on February 18, 2011
I provided a short commentary on the new Obama conscience regulations for Michael Sean Winters over at the National Catholic Reporter website.

Heaven

Posted on February 17, 2011
For the next few days, I will be in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah -- at Alta -- where the skiing is better than it is anyplace else on the planet. If the goal of "Catholic" anything -- legal theory, etc....

How is NARAL et al. like the NRA?

Posted on February 17, 2011
Pro-choice Will Saletan on the Kermit Gosnell case in Philadelphia: I'd like to think that in the months ahead, Pennsylvania's abortion providers and pro-choice groups will work with legislators and the governor to fix the regulatory problems that led to...

Is Facebook killing the church?

Posted on February 17, 2011
Richard Beck thinks so; here's an excerpt of his argument: The difference between Generations X and Y isn't in their views of the church. It's about those cellphones. It's about relationships and connectivity. Most Gen X'ers didn't have cell phones,....

Question

Posted on February 17, 2011
What is the Christian argument for a statewide ban on Sunday liquor sales?

Agriculture vs. Agribusiness

Posted on February 17, 2011
Mary Berry Smith chronicles her farm tour of Western Kentucky in an essay at Front Porch Republic. Here is a sample: I would like to say a few things about the abuse of the farmer in the system. In contrast...

Spiritual, But Not Religious: Comparing the U.S. and Europe

Posted on February 17, 2011
It is commonly thought that Europeans are godless. In fact, as Grace Davie and Andrew Greeley in independent work have confirmed, more than half of Europeans believe in God, but they do not belong to any religious denomination. Davie calls...

Small town America

Posted on February 16, 2011
I spent last weekend in a fairly small Nebraska town where my youngest is doing a two year teaching stint through Creighton's Magis program. Charming with friendly inhabitants, I couldn't help but ponder the future of this and still smaller...

"Catholic Schools do more with less"

Posted on February 16, 2011
Yes, they do. Have I mentioned before, here at MOJ -- I'm not sure -- that meaningful school choice (which includes financial support for children whose parents choose qualified religious schools) is a social-justice, civil-rights, and religious-freedom imperative? Just checking...

A good Catholic cannot rule out tax increases in today's fiscal climate. Discuss.

Posted on February 16, 2011
OK, so forgive my deliberately provocative headline, but in both Washington D.C. and my local state capitol (St. Paul), the battle lines have been drawn (once again) surrounding the annual budget debates. The lines seem, if anything, to be more...

Tax Increases and Prudential Judgment: When are They High Enough?

Posted on February 16, 2011
In his post earlier today, my colleague Rob Vischer provocatively proposes that "a good Catholic cannot rule out tax increases in today's fiscal climate" and confesses that he finds the anti-tax camp "more infuriating" than the anti-government spending cuts camp...

The New York Times on Accountability

Posted on February 16, 2011
A couple of days ago The New York Times ran an editorial entitled ?More Shame? in which it critiques the Roman Catholic Church?especially its hierarchy?on the ground that children are still at risk of being victims of sexual abuse. The...

How much is a life worth?

Posted on February 16, 2011
We don't like putting a dollar figure on the value of a human life, especially ex ante, but when we're trying to evaluate the wisdom of regulation, it's an unavoidable inquiry, and federal agencies are currently revising their calculations. It...

Life and Truth

Posted on February 15, 2011
The on-line journal Public Discourse, under the brilliant editorship of Ryan Anderson, has become a key site for people interested in the rigorous analysis of contemporary disputes about ethics and morally-charged questions of law and public policy. Its editorial policy...

Tom Farr on international religious freedom

Posted on February 15, 2011
Tom Farr has an as-per-usual interesting piece up, at The Immanent Frame, on the international-religious-freedom policies of the United States. In particular, he considers the questions "whether religious freedom as it is conceptualized in the United States has any applicability...

"Vita Institute" at Notre Dame

Posted on February 14, 2011
An announcement of possible interest: The Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life is proud to announce the inaugural Notre Dame Vita Institute to be held at the University of Notre Dame from June 12-24, 2011. Conducted under the auspices...

Celebrating the 120th anniversary of Rerum Novarum

Posted on February 14, 2011
This upcoming conference, at Notre Dame, might be of interest: The core purpose of the Dear Brothers and Sisters Conference is to intellectually explore the thematic social issues that have been addressed by modern Catholic social thought by assembling some...

"A Call for International Religious Freedom"

Posted on February 14, 2011
Pepperdine's Nootbaar Institute is hosting what looks to be a great conference, on February 25: On Friday, Feb. 25, Pepperdine University School of Law will host some of the world?s leading minds and practitioners on international religious freedom. Congressman Frank...

Tollefsen: "Why lying is always wrong"

Posted on February 14, 2011
There have been a number of posts recently at Public Discourse on the morality of the tactics employed by "Live Action" to catch Planned Parenthood workers doing and saying bad things on camera. The latest, by Prof. Christopher Tollefsen, is...

Feldman on the Virtues of Political Justices

Posted on February 13, 2011
I admire and respect Noah Feldman's writing on the religion clauses. I think that his piece on the intellectual origins of the Establishment Clause was extremely well done. While I don't agree with many of the claims in "Divided by...

Law as a Moral Idea

Posted on February 13, 2011
I have recently started my first read of Nigel Simmond?s 2007 book Law as Moral Idea. Professor Simmonds is Reader in Jurisprudence at Cambridge University?s faculty of law where he is also Director of Studies in Law. So far, it...

Movie Review -- "The Way Back"

Posted on February 12, 2011
I will soon be beginning my annual Oscar movie orgy -- sitting in a movie theater with my teenaged-son for 2 Saturdays in a row, watching all 10 of the Best Picture nominees. (He's a senior in High School, so...

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