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The denouement of the travesty at Ave Maria Law School?

Posted on September 22, 2009
A partial denouement, at least. Read the good news here.

Reminder: "The Summons of Freedom"

Posted on September 22, 2009
If it's Fall, that means (i) Bell's Brewery has a tasty Octoberfest beer out, and (ii) the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture's big annual conference is drawing near. This conference is among the highlights of the academic year...

The Church on Health Care: "Defend the Private Sector!" (?)

Posted on September 21, 2009
I'm quite sure that I do not know how to solve the problems we have in this country regarding access to health care; I'm also pretty sure that the bishops don't know how to solve the problems either. (Nor do...

Camino de Santiago

Posted on September 21, 2009
For over a thousand years pilgrims have been walking the Camino de Santiago. Tomorrow I leave for Spain. After spending a few days with my wife?s relatives in Santander, I?ll make my way to St. Jean Pied de Port, France...

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some arguments against social justice re health care in particular

Posted on September 21, 2009
Seeing our sicknesses and other sufferings as social injustices makes us resent them more, makes us search for someone (the State) to blame for them, makes us less grateful to those officials who alleviate them (because we are only, at...

Happy Constitution Day!

Posted on September 18, 2009
Give it a read, if you haven't recently. There's some good stuff in there: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote...

Esenberg on CST, subsidiarity, and crises

Posted on September 18, 2009
Richard Esenberg has a very thoughtful post up at Prawfsblawg about "the Catholic notion of subsidiarity and what how it may inform our thinking about proposed expansions of the state in response to various 'crises,' e.g., the financial seizure, global...

GOD'S ECONOMY: Faith-Based Iniatives and the Caring State, by Lew Daly

Posted on September 18, 2009
Here is the University of Chicago Press pre-publication blurb about a book that readers of MOJ should rush to pre-order: GOD?S ECONOMY Faith-Based Initiatives and the Caring State Lew Daly With a foreword by E. J. Dionne Jr. University of...

MOJ Friend Gerry Whyte on Christianity and Socialism

Posted on September 18, 2009
Gerry Whyte (Trinity College Law [Dublin]) writes: [T]he relationship between socialism and Christianity ... may be closer than many US conservatives realise. For a start, socalists arguably inherited from Christianity a particular way of seeing history, namely, as a linear...

A Unique Position for the United States Bishops in the Health Care Debate

Posted on September 17, 2009
I think all of us on this blog agree that everyone should have access to affordable quality health care regardless of economic status, age, or condition of health. The devil, as usual, is in the details. What I fear is...

Pro-life critique of baucus bill

Posted on September 17, 2009
National Right to Life comments on the Baucus proposal for health care ? Sept 16, 2009. http://www.nrlc.org/press_releases_new/Release091609.html

Fr. Jenkins' letter on Notre Dame Task Force

Posted on September 17, 2009
A letter from Fr. John Jenkins to the "Notre Dame family" has been circulated and discussed widely; the full text is available many places, including here, at the America blog. Here is a taste: As our nation continues to struggle...

What do our "dorms" say about us?

Posted on September 17, 2009
When I think back to the condition of the dormitory bathroom that I shared in college, I still shudder a bit. I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure it was designated as a Superfund site shortly after graduation. We may...

Red Mass in Norman, Oklahoma

Posted on September 17, 2009
All lawyers, judges, law students and others associated with the legal profession are invited to the 30th annual Red Mass at St. Thomas More in Norman (corner of Jenkins and Stinson). The Mass is at 5pm this Sunday, Sept. 20...

Rick Garnett gives the right response

Posted on September 17, 2009
That is, "right" as in "correct"! Immediately below. And thanks, Rick, for putting up with this compulsive tweaker!

Michael Perry asks the wrong question

Posted on September 17, 2009
Because my friend Michael likes to have fun tweaking me, by pretending that my thinking and action when it comes to policy and politics is shaped by a loyalty to "Republicans," or an aversion to "Democrats" (he knows this isn't...

Is Sen. Baucus out to kill Grandma too?

Posted on September 17, 2009
Is the National Right to Life Committee engaging in scare tactics? I was disturbed to read that the Baucus bill "will gravely endanger the lives of America's senior citizens." Then I read the analysis: With respect to rationing, the proposal...

Socialism (Catholicism?) 101, Part 5

Posted on September 16, 2009
[From today's NYT online's "Room for Debate:.] Jefferson Cowie and Nick Salvatore teach American history at Cornell University and are the authors of the forthcoming book, ?The Long Exception: An Interpretation of the New Deal from FDR to Obama.? When...

Socialism (Catholicism?) 101, Part 4

Posted on September 16, 2009
[From today's NYT online's "Room for Debate".] Terence Ball Why are some ? mostly older, overwhelmingly white ? Americans so afraid of ?socialism? and, by extension, ?socialized medicine?? One explanation is that they don?t actually know what socialism is, namely...

Socialism (Catholicism?) 101, Part 3

Posted on September 16, 2009
[From today's NYT online's "Room for Debate".] Andrew Hartman. Recent denunciations of Obama?s proposed health-care plan as ?socialist? have taken some observers by surprise, especially since the foreign threat of socialism receded two decades ago when the Soviet Union imploded...

Socialism (Catholicism?) 101, Part 2

Posted on September 16, 2009
[This one by my Emory colleague, historian Patrick Allitt.] [From today's NYT online's "Room for Debate".] Patrick Allitt is the Cahoon Family Professor of American History at Emory University in Atlanta. He is author of ?The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities...

Socialism (Catholicism?) 101, Part 1

Posted on September 16, 2009
[Frm the today's NYT online's "Room for Debate".] Katrina vanden Heuvel When any American reform leader takes on the status quo, he or she confronts a ferocious, well-organized and reactionary opposition. Is it any surprise that right-wing groups now compare...

A great conference in Mexico: "The Lay State and Religious Liberty"

Posted on September 16, 2009
More info here. The purpose of the symposium is to raise awareness of international religious liberty standards and how they apply to the United States, Latin America, and Mexico. The symposium is also meant to encourage the emerging voices of...

Congrats to Russ Hittinger

Posted on September 16, 2009
MOJ bloggers and readers are, no doubt, familiar with the work of Prof. Russ Hittinger. I've learned that Russ has recently been named to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, the aim of which is to promote the study and...

Michael Moore, the Catholic Documentarian, on Capitalism

Posted on September 16, 2009
Moore's new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, will soon be out. (I'm sure Rick is salivating!) In today's NYT, it is said: As much as Mr. Moore sometimes plays a comic-book version of class warrior ? Left-Thing vs. the Republic...

Thomas Merton ...

Posted on September 16, 2009
... to whom I dedicated my second book, way back in 1988, and who, I sometimes think, singlehandedly keeps me identifying myself, in spite of everything, as a Roman Catholic, what would you think about this?

Interested in the "Catholic" take on the Health Care Reform Debate?

Posted on September 16, 2009
Of course you are! Then, check this out: Here. And here. What say you, Rick: Ready to join the Democrats on this one, at least?

Allen on Subsidiarity and Health Care Reform

Posted on September 15, 2009
Prompted by a statement of Kansas bishops Naumann and Finn, several MOJ posts in the last week or so have addressed the issue of health care reform and subsidiarity John Allen takes up the topic in his NCR column this...

What would Catholic legal theory say to Kanye?

Posted on September 15, 2009
David Brooks offers a nice reflection on the "line of narcissism" we've crossed as a culture since World War II, exemplified in recent days by Rep. Joe Wilson, Kanye West, and Michael Jordan. Brooks overstates things a bit, asserting that...

"Being real"

Posted on September 15, 2009
In response to my post about Kanye West, Marc DeGirolami adds: In addition to the self-creation angle, I wonder whether ?being real? is now a justification (or maybe only an excuse) for various sorts of vice that might coincide with...

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