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Dear Michael P.

Posted on December 30, 2009
I thought that you and Robby had arrived at common ground, agreed to move on, and leave readers to decide for themselves whether either or both of you had engaged in caricature or personal insult. But, now you continue with...

This may be of interest to some MOJ readers

Posted on December 30, 2009
[An interlocutor who has been reading the to-and-from between Robby and me sent this my way:] I?ve seen this past week?s exchanges on MoJ between you and R. George. You might be interested in http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/FILM_20091127_1.htm - a film review on...

Changing the subject?

Posted on December 30, 2009
The issue, which Robby's post immediately below obscures, is whether my Christmas Eve post did what Robby earlier accused it of doing, namely, suggested that there is an equivalence--a moral equivalence--between racists and those who believe that same-sex sexual conduct...

Nussbaum, religious liberty, libertas ecclesiae, and such

Posted on December 30, 2009
Martha Nussbaum delivered the keynote address at the third annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture, held at Villanova Law in February, 2009. It was a great occasion. On the occason, other contributors included, as readers of...

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Reflecting on Church, State, Politics, Trends, and Values at St. John Lateran

Posted on December 30, 2009
Today was the last of our ten days in Rome with our extended Sisk and Gilchrist families, which we concluded with a visit to the Basilica of St. John Lateran. We thereby completed our pilgrimage to all four of the...

My New Years Wish

Posted on December 30, 2009
All I want for New Years is for the endless Michael P., Robert George (and with yet a new intervention from Michael S.) thread to end. I know that it is too much to ask that we would have a...

A quick response to Robby's "rebuke"

Posted on December 29, 2009
[Robby?s words are in non-bold type; my response, in bold type.] Well, well now. What are we to make of that rather aggressive Christmas Eve greeting from Michael P.? I hadn?t thought of my post as aggressive. I had thought...

A response to Michael S.'s two questions

Posted on December 29, 2009
Thanks very much, Michael, for your interesting questions. Your first question: ?[D]oes the Tradition . . . support your post-metaphysical, apophatic Catholic Christianity?? The Tradition is capacious enough to include a non-metaphysical, apophatic theology (theo-logos, talk about God), and one...

Two questions for Michael P.

Posted on December 29, 2009
Michael P: Your Christmas Eve post (to which Robby responds here), discusses "the Tradition" and sexual ethics. Two questions. First, does the Tradition (whether Porter/Kaveny or George/Finnis/Grisez are the better heirs to the Tradition) support your post-metaphysical, apophatic Catholic Christianity?...

Yuk? Oy vey.

Posted on December 29, 2009
Well, well now. What are we to make of that rather aggressive Christmas Eve greeting from Michael P.? I appreciate Brother Michael's describing me as decent and admirable, but I would forfeit whatever claim I might have to either of...

Was it a smear . . . or not? That is the question.

Posted on December 29, 2009
I'm afraid the diversionary tactics won't work, Michael. Nor will repeating yourself. Or shifting the discussion to the opinions of Cathleen Kaveny on Germain Grisez's thought. Your Christmas eve post was a smear against people who do not share your....

Rick and Health Care

Posted on December 29, 2009
It would be helpful if Rick would explain (1) why the Senate?s version of the health bill is not abortion neutral enough (after reading the second link I supplied); (2)(a) how he expects thirty million men, women, and children to...

A (late) reply to Steve S.'s "Health Care and Helping the Poor"

Posted on December 29, 2009
A few days ago, Steve S. urged "progressives" to support the health-care bill (I'm assuming we're talking here about the Senate's version), and directed a similar exhortation to "those who would privilege squeaky-clean abortion neutrality over the needs of the...

Another Christmas poem

Posted on December 29, 2009
It's not too late . . . there are twelve days, remember? Nativity (1992) by R.S. Thomas Christmas Eve! Five hundred poets waited, pen poised above paper, for the poem to arrive, bells ringing. It was because the chimney was...

Israel's Chief Rabbis on abortion

Posted on December 29, 2009
A friend and MOJ reader sends along this story, about a recent letter sent by Israel's two top rabbis in which they "denounc[ed] abortion" and "said that abortion kills thousands of Israeli babies a year and delays the coming of...

A further response by Cathy to Robby

Posted on December 29, 2009
[Hey, I didn't conscript this post either--but I sure am grateful for it! Cathy says:] Robby, Robby, ouch! I try to outline, in objective fashion, just why Grisez isn't a big influence in current theological or philosophical circles, and you...

Concerning Robby's response to Cathy [Updated]

Posted on December 29, 2009
In her post this morning--which, as I've already emphasized, and Robby's false claim to the contrary notwithstanding in his post below, I did *not* conscript, but for which, I also want to emphasize, I am most grateful--Cathy made five informative...

A rehearsal of my earlier "quick response to Robby's 'rebuke'"

Posted on December 29, 2009
[A rehearsal, that is, of the parts of my response that Robby, in his post just below, ignored. I'll let the to-and-fro accusations about who's insulting whom speak for themselves. Again, Robby?s words are in non-bold type; my response, in...

Now this really is rich. Michael

Posted on December 29, 2009
Now this really is rich. Michael P. posts Christmas eve comments disparaging and insulting those who disagree with him about sexual morality, ignoring their arguments, insinuating that they are, or are like racists, and "diagnosing" them as victims of "socialization"...

Robert George, Method, and the New York Times Magazine

Posted on December 29, 2009
I do not know if the New York Times magazine accurately reported an aspect of his method, but, if it did, I find it disturbing. According to the Times, as I read it, George makes a sharp distinction between moral...

That's a long story, Michael S., ...

Posted on December 29, 2009
... about which I've written at length elsewhere. You've asked about my position. Here's a sketch: 1. Why is it the case--if indeed it is the case--that each and every human being has inherent dignity and is inviolable? In my...

Just to be sure I understand...

Posted on December 29, 2009
Communication is difficult, and I thank you, Michael P., for your patience in helping me understand. What I hear you saying is that your theology does not inform your sexual ethics and that your sexual ethics are informed by your...

Reply to Michael S.

Posted on December 29, 2009
Well, Michael, I thought I *did* answer your question. What we have here, I suppose, is a failure to communicate. The natural-law approach to moral questions--at least, the natural-law approach associated with Catholic moralists--does not presuppose the authority of, nor...

Response to Michael P. and Cathy Kaveny

Posted on December 29, 2009
Michael, thank you for answering the first of my two questions. As for the second, I don't think you answered it. My question remains: ?[I]s there a connection between your theology (post-metaphysical, apophatic Catholic/Christian) and your sexual ethics?? I know...

Cathy Kaveny responds to Robby's "rebuke"

Posted on December 29, 2009
[This is what Cathy has to say:] I can?t help but note the irony of Robby?s call for intellectual rigor and clarity at the end of a post that throws labels, accusations, and insults around as if they are cashmere...

Re: Hockett to Capretta

Posted on December 28, 2009
James Capretta has kindly sent along a reply to Bob Hockett's reply to James critique of Bob's critique of Charles Krauthammer's critique of the Democrats' health-care proposals. (I hope I have that all straight.) This will be James's last contribution...

Violence ... or nonviolence?

Posted on December 28, 2009
MOJ readers may find this piece interesting: Gandhi, Guevara Fifty-Fifty, here.

Health Care and Helping the Poor

Posted on December 28, 2009
For those who think they are progressive and are balking at the health care bill, see http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/144837/why_it%27s_essential_to_pass_the_health_care_bill%2C_then_improve_it/ For those who would privilege squeaky-clean abortion neutrality over the needs of the poor, see this excellent discussion whether the Nelson amendment is...

"Yet ruined as my house is, you live there!"

Posted on December 28, 2009
So said Thomas Merton. So should we all.

A question about the New York Times Article

Posted on December 26, 2009
Like Michael Perry, I was intrigued by this morning's The New York Times article by David D. Kirkpatrick entitled "Catholic Group Supports Senate on Abortion Aid." Methinks the title of this NYT article is misleading. I read Mr. Kirkpatrick's report....

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