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More on the "curse"

Posted on January 14, 2010
Thanks, Rob, for that link to the post on Pat Robertson at Get Religion. It does, as you say, provide useful context---context that the author rightly says should be mentioned by people reporting Rev. Robertson's remarks. I do not know...

Pat Robertson the showman

Posted on January 14, 2010
Get Religion provides some more context -- but by no means a defense! -- for Pat Robertson's remarks on Haiti's "deal with the devil." To make matters worse, Robertson's network defended the remarks, explaining that "countless scholars and religious figures...

Crits, etc.

Posted on January 13, 2010
The Cambridge professor of theology, Denys Turner, has noted "in much continental philosophy, from Heidegger to Levinas and Derrida, it is acknowledged, with varying degrees of unease at having to concede the point, that the predicaments of our culture have...

Haiti

Posted on January 13, 2010
Hello All, Just a quick expression of prayerful concern for our siblings in Haiti, as well as of thanks to our brother Robby for the information on, and link to, a reliable channel through which we can direct aid. The...

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Appreciating Analogies ? A Reply to Cathy Kaveny

Posted on January 13, 2010
Shortly before Christmas, Michael P. posted Cathy Kaveny?s response (here) to my post (here) criticizing an entry of hers posted at dotCommonweal (here). Thanks to Michael P. for seeking to further the conversation. In her remarks, Cathy suggests that I...

Prayers and Material Support for the People of Haiti

Posted on January 13, 2010
The devastating earthquake that struck Haiti has imposed immeasurably greater suffering on a nation whose people's suffering was already immeasurable. Yesterday the Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat said that "it is unimaginable how the country will be able to recover from...

More sad news from Haiti

Posted on January 13, 2010
The Catholic News Agency is reporting that the leader of the Church in Haiti, Archbishiop Serge Miot of Port-au-Prince, is among the dead.

Rev. Pat Robertson has a well-earned

Posted on January 13, 2010
Rev. Pat Robertson has a well-earned reputation for off the wall remarks, but he has outdone himself this time. He is claiming that Haiti's suffering has been the result of a "curse" that came upon the Haitian people when they...

Haiti

Posted on January 13, 2010
Many thanks to Brother Bob Hockett. In disaster situations especially, it is important to make sure one is giving to reliable charities. If anyone entertained doubts about human fallenness (our Calvinist friends would call it "depravity"), they would be erased...

MoJers and Crits unite!

Posted on January 12, 2010
I rarely sit down and go through an entire law review issue, but I highly recommend reading the recent Pepperdine Law Review issue devoted to the school's recent conference, "Is There a Higher Law? Does It Matter?" The issue includes...

"like" and "dislike"

Posted on January 12, 2010
I would very much like to express that I "like" Patrick's "unfriend" post but alas we don't have a "like" option available to our readers. And, since we don't have a comment option, I have to express my "like" in...

Catholic Crits

Posted on January 12, 2010
Many thanks to Rob for the interesting and salutary thoughts on what 'Crits' and 'Catholic Legal Theorists' might share, and the invitation to all of us to begin a discussion on the subject. There's indeed much to say on this...

unfriend

Posted on January 12, 2010
I read on p. 32 of the TLS dated January 1, 2010 that "Oxford University Press has chosen 'unfriend' as the Oxford Word of the Year, in view of the fact that it has recently gained currency as a verb...

New Orleans

Posted on January 11, 2010
I returned yesterday from New Orleans, where I heard several challenging and provocative papers that should be of interest to anyone involved in the Catholic legal theory project (I'm thinking of presentations by Zachary Calo and Eric Claeys in particular),...

Defense in the Case of Tiller Murder

Posted on January 11, 2010
The trial starts today of the man accused or murdering Dr. George Tiller. The judge has already rejected the defendant's claim of a necessity defense - that he should be acquitted because his action was necessary to prevent a greater...

One Explanation of Catholic Legal Theory?

Posted on January 11, 2010
I recently read the address given by Pope Benedict to the alumni, rector, and students of the Pontifical North American College in Rome this past weekend. [address HERE] The College was celebrating its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. In his...

Welcome the sex robots (?)

Posted on January 11, 2010
The fact that I'm posting this will reveal me as someone who occasionally frequently consults the Drudge Report, but it's worth it to bring attention to one of the saddest news reports I've read in a long time, though given...

Faith and Corporate Law

Posted on January 08, 2010
As part of the day long program of the Section on Socio-Economics at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans today, I participated on a panel titled The Relationship of Faith and Law: The Example of Corporate Law. The panel...

Analysis of SSM/Religious Liberty Conflicts in New Jersey

Posted on January 07, 2010
In December, Rick posted a copy of the letter from religious-liberty scholars analyzing potential conflicts between same-sex-marriage and religious liberty in New Jersey and proposing a statute accommodating religious objectors when SSM is recognized...

ERISA Exemption of Church Plans

Posted on January 07, 2010
It was reported earlier this week that Augsburg Fortress, the publishing ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), has terminated its defined benefit pension plan. The plan is severely underfunded, meaning that plan participants will only receive a...

Mulieris Dignitatem and Pornography

Posted on January 07, 2010
Mary Leary at Catholic Law School has posted an article based on an excellent presentation I heard her give at a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Mulieris Dignitatem: "Mulieris Dignitatem: Pornography and the Dignity of the Soul: An Exploration...

UK and Sharia Law

Posted on January 07, 2010
One MOJ reader had this comment in response to Carissa Mulder's thoughts on the UK case that I posted last evening: Carissa Mulder towards the end of her comments states that "The UK has never recognized sharia law." and later...

MOJ Book Discussion: John Allen's "The Future Church"

Posted on January 07, 2010
We'd like to have a focused discussion of John Allen's new book, "The Future Church." As the book is organized according to 10 "Trends," we'll focus on one trend per week. On the Monday of the designated week, one of...

One take on "Property Outlaws"

Posted on January 06, 2010
I join Steve S. in congratulating Eduardo and Sonia on Property Outlaws. Steve asks, "I wonder what Catholic Legal Theory has to say about these outlaws." "Lots of interesting stuff," I imagine. While I'm waiting to hear from my fellow...

Congratulations Eduardo!

Posted on January 06, 2010
Eduardo Penalver and Sonia Katyal have a new book with Yale University Press entitled Property Outlaws: How Squatters, Pirates, and Protesters Improve the Law of Ownership. See www.propertyoutlaws.com Here is a description: ?Property Outlaws puts forth the intriguingly counterintuitive proposition...

Some more thoughts in response to Prof. Wertheimer

Posted on January 06, 2010
I appreciate Prof. Wertheimer's response to my last post on the U.K. decision. She is correct, I think, to remind us that one danger to keep in view whenever one thinks about public funding of religious organizations and their work...

2009 Law School Survey of Student Engagement

Posted on January 06, 2010
The latest Law School Survey of Student Engagement is getting press for its finding that more law-school students (even those with high debt loads) are responding to the economic situation by seeking more lower-paying public interest jobs. Since the higher-paying...

The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy

Posted on January 06, 2010
Michael J. Perry, Emory University (School of Law); University of San Diego (School of Law and Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, 2009-2012) Abstract: At the beginning of my career as a law professor, in the mid-1970s, I was...

More Thoughts on the U.K. Case

Posted on January 06, 2010
Carissa Mulder, an MOJ reader who is a former student of Rick Garnett, adds this reaction to our conversation about the UK case holding that a Jewish school could not apply Orthodox rabbinical standards as to who is Jew in...

Laycock on Preserving Religious Freedom for Religious Organizations Receiving Funding

Posted on January 05, 2010
An important question for both religious-freedom law and civil society is whether religious organizations can receive funding to provide social services without having to compromise their religious character in doing so. The Bush Justice Department issued an opinion concluding that...

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