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Dershowitz vs. Scalia on Catholic social teaching

Posted on August 19, 2009
One of the highlights of my first year of law school was when my Criminal Law class signed a petition asking Justice Scalia to attend one of our class sessions and debate our professor, Alan Dershowitz, who was always challenging...

On Callahan on Rationing

Posted on August 19, 2009
Peter Steinfels quotes Dan Callahan as saying "whenever demand for some resource outstrips supply, as seems to be the case for quality medical care, some kind of rationing, whether by official policy or by economic advantage, starts to operate." However,...

The case of Belmont Abbey College

Posted on August 18, 2009
Thanks to those who have begun to address the situation involving Belmont Abbey College and the EEOC proceedings regarding ?reproductive health? coverage and the alleged ?discrimination? suffered by those employees of the college who desire ?medical services? that conflict with...

Investigation of Women Religious

Posted on August 18, 2009
At least several MOJ posts in the last two months have addressed the Vatican investigation of women relgious in the United States. I've tried hard to look at this in the best possible light, which I confess has not always...

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Catholic Institutions and Contraception Coverage

Posted on August 18, 2009
The EEOC's decision regarding Belmont Abbey College, which Rob addresses, is lamentable, but not surprising. The EEOC has consistently taken the position that the exclusion of contraception coverage from prescription coverage constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex and/or discrimination...

Should Belmont Abbey College be required to cover contraceptives?

Posted on August 18, 2009
Once again public officials are mistakenly equating the liberty of conscience with individual autonomy, failing to see the importance of institutional venues for living out shared moral convictions. Even more discouraging is that the latest mistake appears to have been...

Why I detest politics more and more with each passing day

Posted on August 17, 2009
According to this Atlantic blog post, HHS Secretary Sebelius said that a public option was not essential to the President's health care reform plan. One administration official later said that she "misspoke" but then added that the public option "is....

A double-standard for Pres. Obama on faith

Posted on August 17, 2009
Kathleen Parker (certainly no "conservative") points out, here, that a press whose "separation!" flags were flying high when President Bush proposed his "Faith-Based Initiative" has been blase and unbothered by Pres. Obama's similar program: A comparison of how the media...

Praise the Lord! And Pass the Money!

Posted on August 16, 2009
Believers Invest in the Gospel of Getting Rich Donors streamed forward at the Southwest Believers? Convention this month in Fort Worth. By LAURIE GOODSTEIN FORT WORTH ? Onstage before thousands of believers weighed down by debt and economic insecurity, Kenneth...

NYT, 8/16/09 Why We Need Health

Posted on August 16, 2009
NYT, 8/16/09 Why We Need Health Care Reform By BARACK OBAMA OUR nation is now engaged in a great debate about the future of health care in America. And over the past few weeks, much of the media attention has...

"Atticus Finch and the Limits of Southern Liberalism"

Posted on August 16, 2009
Malcolm Gladwell has this interesting article in a recent New Yorker. Any thoughts?

This is awesome. If I could get this mutation, ...

Posted on August 15, 2009
... I could post to MOJ almost as much as Rick G. does! Read about it, here.

Thanks for your prayers, Rick

Posted on August 15, 2009
God knows I need all the prayers I can get! But your own beloved Coach K is a Republican! Need I say more?!

Lifted from dotCommonweal

Posted on August 15, 2009
Michael Place on Health Care Reform August 15, 2009, 11:21 am Posted by Cathleen Kaveny One of the voices most worth listening to on matters of health care policy is Michael Place, former head of the Catholic Health Association, former...

Pray for Michael Perry

Posted on August 15, 2009
Recent news reports indicate that the rock-star coach of our own Michael Perry's favorite college basketball team is a loathesome lout. (Let's go Duke!).

Peter Steinfels' column this week is about the debate over healthcare reform

Posted on August 15, 2009
It's certainly worth reading, here.

Professor Amos Guiora and Public Religion

Posted on August 15, 2009
Thanks to Rob for bringing to our attention Professor Amos Guiora?s interesting essay entitled Religious Extremism: A Fundamental Danger. I have not been successful in downloading the entire essay as I have had problems in working with the SSRN website...

Combat terrorism! Keep religion in the home!

Posted on August 14, 2009
Utah law prof Amos Guiora has posted his article, Religious Extremism: A Fundamental Danger. I do not think religious liberty is Prof. Guiora's primary area of scholarship, but that is no excuse for some of the assertions set forth in...

Dallas Willard on my mind

Posted on August 14, 2009
I've been thinking a lot about Dallas Willard, who is one of the most thoughtful evangelical Christian writers today and a philosophy professor at USC. He was one of the featured speakers at the Bible conference I attended last week....

"Common Ground" on Health Care

Posted on August 13, 2009
For months now, Congress and the White House have talked about the need for Americans to seek ?common ground? on the issues that face us. This is a very welcome theme. The ?common good? and ?common ground? are central messages...

Human Nature

Posted on August 13, 2009
"The clue to the political thought of any period lies in the conflict between various views of human nature." -Kingsley Martin, The Rise of French Liberal Thought (1929)

Some thoughts about human nature

Posted on August 13, 2009
I begin this entry by thanking Michael Scaperlanda for his posting earlier today bringing to our attention the quotation from Kingsley Martin on human nature: ?The clue to the political thought of any period lies in the conflict between various...

Modern Man AMERICA, 8/17/09 ByThomas

Posted on August 13, 2009
Modern Man AMERICA, 8/17/09 ByThomas C. Kohler [concurrent professor of law and philosophy at Boston College Law School. This essay is drawn from a forthcoming book, Solidarity Forever: The Story and Significance of an Idea.] The already elderly Pope John...

Is it alright ...

Posted on August 13, 2009
... if MOJ morphs--as indeed our lives morph--along paths, into areas, unanticipated ...

Another Levertov Poem ...

Posted on August 13, 2009
... which MOJ colleague Susan Stabile just sent my (our) way: Annunciation ?Hail, space for the uncontained God? From the Agathistos Hymn, Greece, VIc We know the scene: the room, variously furnished, almost always a lectern, a book; always the...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the NYT: ?All the Pro-life News Not Fit to Print?

Posted on August 11, 2009
Somehow, this aspect of Eunice Kennedy Shriver?s life failed to make it into the New York Times obituary for Mrs. Shriver, as well as the Washington Post obituary cited by Rick. As the article makes clear, Mrs. Shriver was forthright...

How should the Church counsel gays?

Posted on August 11, 2009
I was on vacation last week when the American Psychological Association released its report on "reparative therapy" for gays, but I did see the headlines declaring that "Psychologists repudiate gay-to-straight therapy." The Wall Street Journal has a more nuanced account...

Barbecue Day of Obligation

Posted on August 11, 2009
Ok, Ok, I missed it by a day, but today I am smoking a brisket (rubbed with Salt Lick dry rub) for our RCIA core team, which is meeting at our house this evening. In the early 1990's, we'd get...

Still more on health care and rights

Posted on August 11, 2009
Prof. Bryan McGraw (political theory / Wheaton) has this contribution to our conversation: I've been reading (and skimming) the various posts on whether there is a "right" to health care and a few things suggest themselves to me. One of...

Remember Fr. Coyle

Posted on August 11, 2009
On Aug. 11, 1921, Fr. James Edwin Coyle was murdered in Birmingham, Alabama. (His killer would later be represented by Hugo Black, and acquitted after a Klan-infected trial.) More here.

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