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Healthcare Reform, Abortion, and (Divided) Catholics: The Plot Thickens

Posted on December 26, 2009
NYT, December 26, 2009 Catholic Group Supports Senate on Abortion Aid By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK WASHINGTON ? In an apparent split with Roman Catholic bishops over the abortion-financing provisions of the proposed health care overhaul, the nation?s Catholic hospitals have...

Christmas Eve Mass in St. Peter's Basilica

Posted on December 25, 2009
Our family is spending this Christmas season in Rome, as a tribute to our parents, both my mother, Roberta Sisk, and Mindy's parents, Delbert and Theresia Gilchrist, who are celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary this year. Yesterday, we all were...

". . . and every stone shall cry"

Posted on December 25, 2009
A stable lamp is lighted Whose glow shall wake the sky; The stars shall bend their voices, And every stone shall cry. And every stone shall cry, And straw like gold shall shine; A barn shall harbor heaven, A stall...

A Christmas Carol

Posted on December 25, 2009
The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The Christ-child lay on Mary's breast His hair was like a star. (O stern and cunning are...

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Serious frivolity on Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2009
People are losing the power to enjoy Christmas through identifying it with enjoyment. When once they lose sight of the old suggestion that it is all about something, they naturally fall into blank pauses of wondering what it is all...

Silence

Posted on December 25, 2009
The stores are closed: finally a respite from the public materialistic frenzy; empty parking lots; dispersed crowds --silent day, silent night

Venite Adoremus

Posted on December 24, 2009
Merry Christmas from snowed in Norman, Oklahoma

An addendum to the immediately preceding post, by Bob Hockett

Posted on December 24, 2009
Alas, I am damned with a much less self-deprecating personality than my new soul--and younger--brother Bob Hockett (though for all I know he may recoil at learning that I think of him that way; the "soul", not the "younger", and...

Thanks to Rick on Anderson, and an Anticipation for the Year Ahead

Posted on December 24, 2009
Thanks very much to Rick for the pointer to Ryan Anderson's response to the nice NYT profile of Robby. Funny, but I'd experienced a somewhat similar reaction to the piece last Sunday, in that it seemed pretty clear that the...

Anderson on Kirkpatrick on George

Posted on December 24, 2009
A few days ago, Bob noted a recent NYTM profile of our own Robby George ("The Conservative-Christian Big Thinker"). Robby's friend and colleague, Ryan Anderson, discusses the profile in this post. A bit: . . .But the Times profile did...

The Implications of Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2009
Here are some interesting reflections, by Ross Douthat, on the significance, meaning, and implications of Christmas: . . . The Christian story is not, for instance, a theological or philosophical treatise. It's not a set of commands or insights about...

A (woefully incomplete) response to Bob

Posted on December 23, 2009
While I am still not comfortable holding out as "guidance" to Bob my thinking about (how to think about) the healthcare-insurance-funding proposal, his recent detailed and thoughtful post certainly (more than) deserves a response. Let me start with Bob's "two...

Cathy responds to John

Posted on December 23, 2009
[Here is Cathy's response:] When the Catholic Church or one of its institutions confers an honor on them, how do we assess the appropriateness of this honor --by looking at the recipient's stance on that one issue, or by looking...

What Cathy Kaveny Doesn't Get

Posted on December 23, 2009
?I have to say, I really don?t get it.? So begins a recent post by Cathy Kaveny over at dotCommonweal. The purported source of her confusion is the Holy See's recent decision to declare Pius XII and John Paul II...

More from Ireland, and more about Ireland

Posted on December 23, 2009
John Allen's column this week: "Lessons the Irish church can learn about sex abuse," here. And this from MOJ friend & Trinity College Dublin law prof Gerry Whyte: "A second Irish bishop has now offered to resign in the aftermath...

PS: They Must Be Listening to Us

Posted on December 23, 2009
Once more with feeling, All, As if they'd been reading recent MoJ posts, the folk at Yahoo posted this uncharacteristically thorough take on the abortion discussions apt to take place in the House, Senate reconciliation process: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091223/ap_on_bi_ge/us_health_care_abortion...

Many Thanks for the (Excellent!) Response from Rick

Posted on December 23, 2009
Hello again, All, Just a quick word of thanks to Rick for his wonderfully thoughtful response -- particularly in light of the many good attention-requiring things on the plate right now (and not only figuratively speaking). It looks to me...

Still Hoping for Guidance

Posted on December 22, 2009
Hello again, All, Many thanks to Rick for taking notice of my earlier request, and of course it's altogether understandable that it might take a while to reply fully: 'Christmas-and-kids-stuff' is surely the best and most apt stuff right now!...

A response to Bob Hockett

Posted on December 21, 2009
Let me hasten to add that this comment does not address the questions Bob has posed to Rick Garnett. While Rick is drafting his response to Bob--which I, like other MOJ readers, eagerly await--I want to note that Paul Krugman,...

Thanks so much, Elizabeth , ...

Posted on December 21, 2009
... for picking up on my "respite from political-moral controversy" post. As between Precious and The Hurt Locker, there is clearly room for a reasonable difference in judgments about which film merits the Oscar (not that I'm holding my breath...

Contemporary American (Film) Culture, cont'd

Posted on December 21, 2009
If Michael is inviting us to engage in movie ratings, I feel compelled to contribute. I have a 16-year-old son who is a somewhat rabid movie fan and we take the film awards season very, very seriously around my household....

Responses to Michael, Bob, and Krugman

Posted on December 21, 2009
I'm late taking the bait laid out by my pal Michael, not because I've been busily drafting, but because of, well, Christmas-and-kids stuff. As for the views of "the Princeton economist and Nobel laureate" Paul Krugman . . . I...

yes, Myles Connolly!

Posted on December 21, 2009
This news of the providence of Steve's happy spiritual connection to Myles Connolly quite took my breath away, and reminded me of this, the last paragraph of the Breslin introduction/foreword to Mr. Blue: "In 1954, when Connolly was in his...

Myles Connolly

Posted on December 21, 2009
Patrick and others might be interested to know that Myles Connolly (also a writer of screenplays and a producer) was my godfather. I remember him as a very sweet man - at least to me. Unfortunately, he died in 1964....

A constructively provocative essay about compassion at the end of life

Posted on December 21, 2009
I think many MOJ readers will be interested in and even engaged by this essay, in yesterday's NYT, by the chief of pediatric cardiology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The (inartful) title of the essay, here, is "When...

What a relief!

Posted on December 21, 2009
I worried yesterday when I posted about film that my colleagues at MOJ would think, Why is he taking up space here with something so bereft of relevance to "Catholic legal theory"? So imagine my surprise and delight as I've...

Mr. Blue, Prince Myshkin, Brother Karamazov, St. Francis, Sally Hawkins, and Us

Posted on December 21, 2009
Thanks very much to Elizabeth, Michael, and Patrick for their holiday film and book recommendations. It occurs to me that I've been of a mind to recommend something contemporary in this connection too -- thought I might be a bit...

Mr. Blue

Posted on December 21, 2009
Michael P.'s and Lisa's welcome discussion of movies and culture reminds me of something I've been meaning to mention here since Bob Hockett introduced, maybe two months ago now (I haven't looked back), the issue of spiritualities such as the...

Thanks to Michael Perry (and Steve Shiffrin and possibly Paul Krugman)

Posted on December 21, 2009
Hi Michael and Other Friends, Just a quick thanks to Michael for the references to Krugman. I'd actually not seen these yet but will look for them today. I might note as well in this connection that I had a...

Robby in the Sunday Times Mag

Posted on December 20, 2009
Hello All, Just a quick note to let you all know that there's a profile of our friend Robby in today's Times Magazine. I've not had a chance to read it yet, as I'm off to mass (the one that...

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