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Posted on December 20, 2009
[HT: R. George Wright.] For what Thomas Aquinas has (had?) to say about petitionary prayer, see Fergus Kerr, OP, Thomas Aquinas: A Very Short Introduction 82-83 (Oxford, 2009). (Here's what Jim Morrison, of The Doors, had to say: "You cannot...

On rationing in the new federal health plan

Posted on December 20, 2009
Private plans may "ration" care in the interests of profits without seeming to judge who is more worthy to live. But when the political community rations care it appears to make invidious distinctions. For example, if a private plan charges...

Another possible effect of federally funding abortion

Posted on December 20, 2009
The Left should be concerned about the real-world human freedom and equality rather than the nominal equivalents traditionally favored by the Right. (For example, the Right has long been for equal legal freedoms to work, go to school, etc. while...

A brief respite from political-moral controversy: Contemporary American (film) culture

Posted on December 20, 2009
Last summer, here at MOJ, I unburdened myself of the judgment that The Hurt Locker was, at the time (June), the best film of the year. This afternoon, my wife Sarah and our older child Daniel (who is 20) went...

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How to Assess Abortion-Affecting (as Distinguished from '-Effecting') Legislation? A Request for Guidance from Rick

Posted on December 20, 2009
Hello again, All, I'd like to request -- quite sincerely, with no intended irony -- a bit of guidance from Rick in connection with his post yesterday on the Senate's health insurance reform compromise. To situate what I wish more...

St. Gregory's University Commencement Speech

Posted on December 19, 2009
I had the honor and pleasure of giving the commencement speech at St. Gregory's University this morning. Here are remarks: It is an honor and pleasure to be with you this morning on this important occasion in the life of...

The Senate's healthcare-funding legislation

Posted on December 19, 2009
I see no way to avoid the conclusion that the latest version -- and the one that appears likely to pass -- of healthcare-funding legislation in the Senate moves the ball dramatically in the wrong direction when it comes to...

Villanova Law Dean Search

Posted on December 19, 2009
I would like to encourage MOJ readers to nominate outstanding candidates for the deanship of Villanova School of Law. The search for a new dean is now under way in earnest, and details about the process and its goals, including...

More from Ireland

Posted on December 18, 2009
[MOJ friend Gerry Whyte sends this:] I didn't write this morning's editorial in The Irish Times but I could have as it captures the point I made a few weeks ago about the corrupting effect of power even on decent...

A new piece by MOJer Elizabeth Schiltz

Posted on December 18, 2009
Dueling Vocations: Managing the Tensions between Our Private and Public Callings Elizabeth Rose Schiltz University of St. Thomas School of Law (Minnesota) WOMEN, SEX, AND THE CHURCH, Erika Bachiochi, ed., Pauline Books & Media, 2010 U of St. Thomas Legal...

And a babe was born... or, was it?

Posted on December 17, 2009
I just wonder what others would think about Catholic Legal Theory's response to this recent event that took place in Virginia? Is this where the "choice" argument has taken us? If so, I confidently believe that Catholic Legal Theory has...

Why Catholics aren't speaking up in Uganda about anti-gay bill

Posted on December 17, 2009
That's the title of a piece by John Allen, published today, here.

Forgiveness in Islamic Jurisprudence and Its Role in Intercommunal Relations

Posted on December 17, 2009
I have just posted a new paper with the above title on SSRN. It was presented at a conference at USC a few weeks ago. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1524436

More news from Ireland in the wake of the scandal

Posted on December 17, 2009
This from MOJ friend Gerry Whyte: Pope accepts Bishop of Limerick's resignation The Vatican confirmed this morning that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of the Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray. The story is here.

An Advent thought

Posted on December 17, 2009
"Why does faith still have any chance at all? . . . Because it corresponds to the nature of man. . . .Man possesses an inexhaustible aspiration, full of nostalgia, for an infinite. None of the attempted answers will do;...

More on Weigel and the presumption against war

Posted on December 16, 2009
As part of our ongoing conversation about George Weigel's recent column on the "presumption against war" in the Catholic just war tradition (for other posts in this thread, read this, this, and this), Christopher Dodson comments: I am certainly no...

The Church's teachings on "just war" theory--the use of force

Posted on December 16, 2009
I have been following the recent thread on the Magisterium as it pertains to "just war theory"/the use of force. I have been contributing to an international project concerning these matters over the last couple of years. One of my...

Good tidings to you?

Posted on December 16, 2009
I just came across this story from my native place in Massachusetts where I shall be visiting my family for Christmas. Yes, Christmas. I don?t mind saying Merry Christmas, or Happy Christmas as is the English custom. It is a...

Is there (or should there be) a presumption against war in just war theory?

Posted on December 15, 2009
Yesterday I wondered whether George Weigel is correct in insisting that the Catholic just war tradition does not (and should not) include a "presumption against war." Jonathan Watson points out James Turner Johnson's article on just war theory, including this...

Some interesting news from Ireland ...

Posted on December 15, 2009
... sent our way by MOJ friend and law prof Gerry Whyte of Trinity College Dublin. Gerry writes: "MOJ readers may be interested in this Supreme Court decision handed down today in which the Court ruled that in vitro embryos...

O brave new world......

Posted on December 15, 2009
Check out this new article posted on SSRN: MAOA Gene Predicts Credit Card Debt Abstract: Economists have long realized the importance of credit markets and borrowing behavior for household finance and economics more generally. However, none of this previous work...

The "presumption against war": Eberle critiques Weigel

Posted on December 15, 2009
[At my invitation, MOJ friend Chris Eberle (Philosophy, U.S. Naval Academy) weighs in. (You may remember that in an earlier post, I referred to Chris's brilliant book, Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics (Cambridge, 2002).) Here is what Chris has to...

. . . or your money back!

Posted on December 14, 2009
Well, dear Michael, if you address the questions I've raised, I'm sure your answers will be clear. I just hope you address them (though judging from those glowing endorsements, I suppose I should consider 80 bucks a bargain whether you...

"I don't want to pay $80 and still be in the dark!" -- Robby George

Posted on December 14, 2009
Robby, I no doubt have many, many problems, but clarity in articulating the positions I defend has not been one of them. "Michael Perry is clearly one of our best and most prolific legal scholars, and The Political Morality of...

Welcome to Kevin Lee!

Posted on December 14, 2009
I am delighted to welcome Prof. Kevin Lee, who teaches at Campbell, to our merry band of MOJ-ers. (Kevin's bio, CV, and the like are here.) Kevin brings to our conversation, among other things, the fruits of his advanced studies...

Is a presumption against war inconsistent with just war tradition?

Posted on December 14, 2009
Commenting on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, George Weigel laments what he sees as the decline of an authentic just war tradition in our popular discourse. He is especially concerned that a presumption against war seems to have...

Posted on December 14, 2009

Uganda's proposed criminalization of homosexuality

Posted on December 14, 2009
Given the posts so far on this topic, MOJ readers may find this paper interesting: "Perceptions of LGBT in Uganda and Africa" STEPHEN KADUULI, Africa Leadership Institute, York University Email: kaduuli@yahoo.com LGBT refers to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people...

The Real Inconvenient Truth

Posted on December 14, 2009
A Canadian journalist writes that debates about cap-and-trade subsidies, wind farms, and climate science are really missing the point: what the world needs desperately is to adopt China's one child policy. According to Diane Francis of The Financial Post, China...

The Moral Purpose of the State

Posted on December 14, 2009
This new book by Christian Reus-Smit should be of interest to MoJers.

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