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Personal vs. social dignity

Posted on January 05, 2010
I'm always curious to see how scholars articulate (or fail to articulate) what "human dignity" means, especially in non-religious contexts, and to figure out what work the concept is doing for them. Markus Dubber has posted a short essay on...

Is it "race discrimination" for a Jewish school to employ religious standards in admission?

Posted on January 05, 2010
Apparently so, in the United Kingdom. MOJ-friend Aidan O'Neill sent in a note, a few weeks back, with this report: a Jewish school is held to be not permitted to apply Orthodox rabbinical standards as to who is Jew in...

"Giving up on the death penalty"

Posted on January 05, 2010
Interesting: Last October, the American Law Institute, the group that established standards for the death penalty in America, voted to withdraw its support of the practice it helped to define. This decision, according to New York Times columnist Adam Liptak,...

Laycock on faith-based hiring by publicly-funded religious organizations

Posted on January 05, 2010
My friend Tom Berg posted this over at the Mirror of Justice blog: 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...

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Jewish Schools Employing Religious Standards in Admitting Students

Posted on January 05, 2010
Rick talks about the UK case holding that a Jewish school could not apply Orthodox rabbinical standards as to who is Jew in its admissions policies, quoting Charles Moore's critical commentary of the decision. While I share some hesitation in...

Discovering God's Love

Posted on January 05, 2010
I am back and my New Year?s resolution is? to blog more! (Or at least to try?) As Christmas was approaching, my Focolare house had plans to go upstate to our conference center in order to celebrate with a larger...

Professor Wertheimer Responds to Rick

Posted on January 05, 2010
Professor Ellen Wertheimer sends this response to Rick's reaction to her earlier comment on the UK decisio: holding that a Jewish school could not apply Orthodox rabbinical standards as to who is Jew in its admissions policies: It is certainly...

(Still) further thoughts on the U.K. decision

Posted on January 05, 2010
With all due respect, the comments of Prof. Wertheimer only increase my concerns about the decision we are discussing. I do not see it as reducing our reasons for concern that the mother's conversion to Judaism was acceptable to some...

Further Thoughts on UK Decision

Posted on January 05, 2010
Professor Ellen Wertheimer at Villanova Law School shares these thoughts in response to our recent posts on the UK decision holding that a Jewish school could not apply Orthodox rabbinical standards as to who is Jew in its admissions policies:...

Some thoughts in response to Susan

Posted on January 05, 2010
Thanks to Susan for her response to my post about the (very interesting) UK case holding that a Jewish school could not, in keeping with laws against race-discrimination, apply Orthodox rabbinical standards as to who is Jew in its admissions...

Why Ellen Wertheimer is certainly wrong

Posted on January 05, 2010
Ellen Wertheimer asserts that she has demonstrated the "wisdom " (sic) of keeping religion and government "apart." Rather than belabor my point, I'll just note that some *responsible* and *respected* theories of "government" teach that, while church and state are...

Forgetting the mission

Posted on January 04, 2010
Peggy Noonan looks back at the failures of the past decade as examples of institutions forgetting their missions, foremost among these the Catholic Church: The Catholic Church, as great and constructive an institution as ever existed in our country, educating...

Thanks to Peter Steinfels

Posted on January 04, 2010
We shouldn't let this occasion pass without notice on MoJ: Peter Steinfels wrote his last Beliefs column on Friday. I cannot help but wonder if this leaves a void that the Times will not feel any particular pressure to fill....

The Chronicle on Fr. Jenkins and Notre Dame

Posted on January 04, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education has (what I thought was) a positive and balanced portrait, "The Priest President," of Fr. John Jenkins and his work as the President of the University of Notre Dame. The piece identifies me as a...

A New Years Wish Revoked?

Posted on January 04, 2010
I was surprised to open MoJ and find Steve Shiffrin's December 31 post. The day before, in a post entitled "My New Years Wish," Steve asked for the thread concerning the dispute arising out of Michael P.'s Christmas Eve post...

"Freedom for Faith, Freedom for All"

Posted on January 04, 2010
Here is my First Things review of David Novak's recent book, In Defense of Religious Liberty. A bit: [T]o mount a serious defense of religious liberty, one must understand what that liberty is and why it is worth protecting. But...

Something is rotten in . . . the Netherlands

Posted on January 04, 2010
This is disturbing: The number of registered cases of euthanasia rose by 200 to some 2,500 in 2009, according to new figures from the official monitoring body, quoted in the Telegraaf. It is not known how many cases of mercy...

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Posted on January 04, 2010
As our own Susan Stabile reminds us, at her other (wonderful) blog, today is the Feast of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, my daughter Libby's patron and a saint whom all of us who care about Catholic schools (as all of...

Mary, Table of Intellectual Faith

Posted on January 02, 2010
Happy New Year everyone! Fr. Araujo rightly observes the tension between the types of rationality that dominate contemporary legal reasoning and the types of reasoning that Catholics see as harmonious with faith. His question for us points deeper into the...

Congrats, and thanks, to Teresa Collett

Posted on January 02, 2010
I was delighted to receive, in my e-mail today, from Prof. Teresa Collett, the Annual Report of the Prolife Center at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Congratulations, and thanks, to her, and to the School of Law,...

Disgust

Posted on January 01, 2010
I understand why Robert George and Michael Scaperlanda were upset by Michael Perry?s Christmas Eve post. But once Michael P gave an explanation as to his meaning, it is not clear to me why one of Michael?s central points was...

May it not be so in 2010

Posted on January 01, 2010
Wendell Berry once wrote: Our bodies are fat, weak, joyless, sickly, ugly, the virtual prey of the manufacturers of medicine and cosmetics. Our bodies have become marginal; they are growing useless like our ?marginal land' because we have less and...

The Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God

Posted on January 01, 2010
Over the past several days the Mirror of Justice has hosted a spirited debate on a variety of themes that have offered perspectives of colleagues and friends on matters that are important to the law and, therefore, Catholic Legal Theory....

Law and Anthropology

Posted on December 31, 2009
As we ring out the old year (and decade) and ring in the new, I went back and looked at our very early blogs from nearly six years ago. This one, from Rick, still expresses what for me is a...

Common ground

Posted on December 30, 2009
Michael P. and I have finally found common ground: the record beginning with his Christmas Eve post is there in black and white for everyone to see and it speaks for itself. Readers who wonder whether I was right to...

Response to Professor Kaveny

Posted on December 30, 2009
I owe Professor Kaveny a response. Here it is. Dear Cathy: I appreciate the mostly friendly tone of your most recent comment. I did not appreciate your earlier comment claiming that my critique of Michael P.'s Christmas Eve post was...

A thought for the season

Posted on December 30, 2009
Bertolt Brecht, A Bed for the Night I hear that in New York At the corner of 26th Street and Broadway A man stands every evening during the winter months And gets beds for the homeless there By appealing to...

There you go again, Robby!

Posted on December 30, 2009
I have made it clear what I was saying in my Christmas Eve post, and it was not what you imagine me to have been saying: "equivalent to racists". You seem, after several posts, invested in your mistaken "equivalent to...

Yep!

Posted on December 30, 2009
Michael: So now your game is to depict me as "angry"---indeed angry to the point of perhaps being "venomous." Nice try, but I'm afraid that tactic won't work either. The reason is simple: Your Christmas Eve post is there in...

Not!

Posted on December 30, 2009
Robby began a post some weeks back--a post in the to-and-fro with Chip Lupu--with a comment about how things were getting "curiouser and curiouser". Well, let me begin this post with the comment that at Robby's end, things seem to...

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