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United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Posted on January 28, 2010
3211 FOURTH STREET NE ? WASHINGTON DC 20017-1194 ? 202-541-3000 WEBSITE: WWW.USCCB.ORG/HEALTHCARE ? FAX 202-541-3339 January 26, 2010 United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Representative: On behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), we...

Christian Realism Presentations Now Available On-line

Posted on January 28, 2010
Video and audio of the excellent presentations at the Murphy Institute's November symposium on "Christian Realism and Public Life: Catholic and Protestant Perspectives", are now available online here. They include the plenary presentations by Jean Bethke Elshtain, Gerry Bradley, James...

The Individual in John Paul II's Personalism

Posted on January 28, 2010
Many thanks to Fr. Araujo for his insightful and moving description of moral theology. I want to take the opportunity to suggest the complexity and nuance of John Paul II's personalism by expanding on one point. When John Paul II...

Fordham Announcement of Celebration Penalver and Katyal's New Book

Posted on January 28, 2010
The spring 2010 Natural Law Colloquium will take place on Thursday, February 4, at 6:00 pm in the McNally Amphitheatre of Fordham Law School. Our speakers will be Professor Eduardo Penalver (Cornell Law School) and Sonia Katyal (Fordham Law School),....

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Difficult Realities of Engaging the Abortion Debates

Posted on January 28, 2010
Some of the comments on Rob's post about the reaction to the pro-life ad at the Superbowl touched on a reality about the abortion debate of which I am always acutely aware whenever I'm speaking about abortion -- the fact...

Protecting unborn children by detaining negligent mothers

Posted on January 27, 2010
What do people think of this case: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Samantha Burton wanted to leave the hospital. Her doctor strongly disagreed, enough to go to court to keep her there. She smoked cigarettes during the first six months of...

Suk on trauma and abortion discourse

Posted on January 27, 2010
Harvard law prof Jeannie Suk has posted her new paper, The Trajectory of Trauma: Bodies and Minds of Abortion Discourse. The abstract: What is the legal import of emotional pain following a traumatic event? The idea of women traumatized by...

Archbishop Chaput on mass communications

Posted on January 27, 2010
Archbishop Chaput made this comment to the Congress of Priest and Laity today: Part of what blocks a serious awareness and rethinking of our current culture is the ?knowledge economy? we have created. In its 1999 statement Towards a Pastoral...

"Separation of Pro-Life and State"

Posted on January 27, 2010
Over at First Things, Meghan Duke reports what should be (but, unfortunately, really isn't) a shocking story:While visiting the National Gallery of Art this past Saturday, I ran into a pair of errant security guards who have taken to interpreting...

Not judging a book from its cover and promotional announcement

Posted on January 27, 2010
I, too, join those who look forward to discussing Fr. Jim Keenan?s new book, A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century?From Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences. Perhaps we at the Mirror of Justice may discuss his book...

"only mildly interested in either God or the world"?

Posted on January 27, 2010
In response to Michael Perry's posting the blurb for Fr. James Keenan SJ's new book on the history of moral theology in the twentieth century, I was tempted to ask whether this book from Continuum bears the imprimatur. But that...

A History of Catholic Moral Theology

Posted on January 27, 2010
A History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth CenturyFrom Confessing Sins to Liberating Consciences by James F. Keenan Preview Buy Share X This is an historical survey of 20th Century Roman Catholic Theological Ethics (also known as moral theology)...

Addendum: Focus on the Fractious Family

Posted on January 26, 2010
Hello again, All, By way of a fellow at OpinionatedCatholic comes this added wrinkle to the Focus on the Family story: http://www.getreligion.org/?p=23909. Dr. Dobson will apparently be leaving the organization at the end of February, and the circumstances appear to...

Any philosophy majors out there? (HT: Larry Alexander)

Posted on January 26, 2010

Consider the Source

Posted on January 26, 2010
Hello All, I'm sympathetic to much of what Rob says in the post immediately below, but offer one mitigating consideration that might render the protest against CBS's decision a wee bit less depressing: It is possible that those protesting the...

Perhaps the most depressing protest ever?

Posted on January 26, 2010
CBS is taking heat from women's groups for agreeing to run an ad from Focus on the Family featuring Tim Tebow, whose mother rejected her doctors' advice that he be aborted: ?An ad that uses sports to divide rather than...

Corporate Freedom of Speech

Posted on January 25, 2010
On his personal blog, MOJ friend, Stephen Bainbridge, has provided a useful round-up of the blogging on last week?s controversial Supreme Court decision on corporate free speech in Citizen?s First v. FEC. I greatly admire Professor Bainbridge's work and carefully...

Allen's "Future Church" -- Trend Two: Evangelical Catholicism

Posted on January 25, 2010
Last week Amy kicked off our discussion of John Allen's important new book, The Future Church, with Allen's first trend ("A World Church"), and this week I'm going to continue the conversation by focusing on his second trend: "Evangelical Catholicism...

Citizens United and corporations' speech-goals

Posted on January 25, 2010
Just two quick thoughts in response to Kevin's and Rob's recent posts on the Citizens United case -- which, in my view, is welcome, and perhaps even cause for (non-churlish!) celebration. First, Kevin's post is very thoughtful, and I endorse...

Can a corporation transcend consumerist goods?

Posted on January 25, 2010
I do not have a strong opinion on Citizens First v. FEC, and I'm inclined agree with Kevin's assertion that the range of goods corporations are likely to pursue in their political speech are "material, consumerist, and sensuous goods, ones...

A Dayof Penance . . . And Hope

Posted on January 23, 2010
Today I found myself, quite unexpectedly, at the 12:10 afternoon Mass at Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in Los Angeles. I say "unexpectedly" because my trip to L.A. was quite a big surprise, arranged by my wife and a...

Candy-making Nuns

Posted on January 22, 2010
Speaking of being more open to the influence of the spiritual world, here's the best explanation I've seen for Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts.

More Thoughts on Allen's First Trend -- "World Church"

Posted on January 22, 2010
Continuing Amy's and Rick's reflections on John Allen's first trend, the World Church, one of the things that intrigued me most was something of a contradiction. On the one hand, as Amy pointed out, he characterizes attitudes toward the supernatural....

Atticus Finch revisited

Posted on January 22, 2010
Lance McMillian, assistant professor at Atlanta's John Marshall Law School, has just posted a paper on SSRN. The paper begins with this quote from To Kill a Mockingbird: ?We?re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are,...

Is the law hopeful?

Posted on January 22, 2010
Cornell law prof Annelise Riles has posted a new paper, Is the Law Hopeful? Here's the abstract: This essay asks what legal studies can contribute to the now vigorous debates in economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, literary studies and anthropology about...

Joseph Cao on human rights and the dignity of the unborn

Posted on January 22, 2010
Wow. Watch this video, of Joseph Cao (R-La.), speaking on the House floor, about abortion and human rights. Cao has many fans among liberals for being the only Republican to support the House Democrats' health-care-insurance proposal. He is anti-death penalty,...

Faith-based investing

Posted on January 22, 2010
MOJ friend Elizabeth Brown sent me this article from the Financial Times, about religiously-based investment funds. According to the article, more than 1/10th of all US managed funds are now invested according to some sort of socially-responsible criteria...

Unconditional Forgiveness -- for Christians and perhaps others

Posted on January 21, 2010
Patrick, I agree with your claim that unconditional forgiveness is a Christian norm deeply rooted in our texts and tradition. My recent essay on forgiveness in Islam concludes that there is a similar moral basis for unconditional forgiveness in Islam...

unconditional forgiveness -- not for Christians?

Posted on January 20, 2010
Last year, I wrote and posted a paper on the forgiveness that we humans are capable of and called to. I argued that we are called to forgive one another *unconditionally.* Further, I take *unconditional* forgiveness to be the Christian...

John Allen's trends, cont'd

Posted on January 20, 2010
Thanks to Amy for starting off our conversation about John Allen's The Future Church. (Note, please, that the comments box is open. Check out her post, and share your thoughts.) Amy's description of Allen's claims and observations with respect to...

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