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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, R.I.P.

Posted on August 11, 2009
From The Washington Post: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, a member of a political dynasty who devoted her life to improving the welfare of the mentally disabled by founding the Special Olympics, died Tuesday morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis,...

Please, PLEASE, nominate me, not Rick G!!!!!

Posted on August 11, 2009
NYT August 11, 2009 Specctacular Distractions Are the Perks of Judgeship By JESSE McKINLEY YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. ? The search is on for a candidate for one of the most scenic jobs in American law: magistrate judge for the...

Thomas More Society on Facebook

Posted on August 11, 2009
After resisting for years, I finally joined Facebook. And, on Facebook, I found the St. Thomas More Society, a "group designed for Catholics who are practicing lawyers, or law students (doesn't say anything about professors, oh well) to discuss what....

Extreme Wealth and Poverty and the Virtue of Enough

Posted on August 10, 2009
The Sixth Biennial Poverty Conference of the Vincentian Chair of Social Justice will take place on October 17, 2009. The theme for this year's conference is Extreme Wealth and Poverty and the Virtue of Enough. The conference will include plenary...

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A new paper, hopefully of interest ...

Posted on August 10, 2009
... to Rick Garnett and to many other MOJ readers (and to their families and friends): Religious Freedom and Beyond: The Right to Moral Freedom Michael J. Perry Emory University School of Law; University of San Diego - School of...

The Story Behind the Lemon Case

Posted on August 09, 2009
For those interested in the background of perhaps the most important Establishment Clause case ever, I've posted on SSRN this draft chapter, "Lemon v. Kurtzman: The Parochial-School Crisis and the Establishment Clause." It's from a forthcoming book, edited by Leslie...

Sotomayor Sworn In as Supreme Court

Posted on August 08, 2009
Sotomayor Sworn In as Supreme Court Justice Jim Young/Reuters Newly sworn in Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is congratulated by Chief Justice John Roberts.

In what sense of "Catholic" am I a Catholic?

Posted on August 08, 2009
In many senses. This is (but) one: When I read a story such as this, I find myself saying "Hail Mary, full of grace, ..." instantaneously, without forethought.

Catholicism and Human Rights
Vincentian Center: 1999 Presentations

Posted on August 07, 2009
Professor Samuel Levine, of Pepperdine Law, sends this page and links our way:Vincentian Center: 1999 Presentations HUMAN RIGHTS: A VIEW FROM A CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY: Introduction to the 1998 Presentations Charity and Justice within the Gospel and the Church's Social Teaching...

Basic Health Care, The Human Right to

Posted on August 07, 2009
Notre Dame's Cathy Kaveny writes: "I noticed that you and Rick were engaged with the question whether health care is a human right (in my view, it is) and the problem of how to implement it with legal means in...

"U.S. women religious leadership, at the crossroads"

Posted on August 07, 2009
By Ken Briggs NCR, 8/7/09 As I see it, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, which gathers next week in New Orleans, faces a bleak choice: either die or survive at a great cost to its integrity and dignity. The...

This looks interesting ...

Posted on August 07, 2009
[And notice the contributions by MOJers Brennan & Berg.] Church Autonomy Conference. Federalist Society Conference: "the things that are not Caesar's: Religious Organizations as a Check on the Authoritarian Pretentions of the State". 7 Geo. J.L. & Pub...

Wise Latinas Rule! I'm a Wise Latina ... y que?

Posted on August 07, 2009
Check it out ... here!

Climate Change, Health Care, and Agricultural Policy

Posted on August 07, 2009
Assuming Michael Pollan's facts and assumptions are correct in The Omnivore's Dilemma, I am beginning to see a big gaping hole in the President's domestic agenda. He wants to deal with climate change (environmental issues) and health care, but it...

Corn Fertility

Posted on August 07, 2009
I am just now getting around to reading Michael Pollan's book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. At one point in the book, Pollan discusses the growth in yields on a typical farm in Iowa from 20 bushels of corn an acre in...

"What's Love Got to Do with It?"

Posted on August 06, 2009
I'm a big fan of (which is not to say I always agree with the writers at) the blog "Front Porch Republic" ("Places. Limits. Liberty." Catchy.) Check out this recent post there, "Benedict on Business: What's Love Got to Do...

Another quick response to Rick ...

Posted on August 06, 2009
... but not from me. Rather, from the same friend of MOJ whose comments I posted immediately below. The reader is responding to Rick's most recent post (i.e., to Rick's "quick response to Michael"). Even here, I?m inclined to split...

More on health care ... and "rights"

Posted on August 06, 2009
A friend of MOJ writes: A quick thought or two, if that, on health care as a right and obligation, in connection with your MOJ exchange with Rick Garnett: First, the positive versus negative right distinction is admittedly ambiguous at...

A quick response to Michael

Posted on August 06, 2009
Michael's invitation is a tempting one: I love San Diego, running along the beach with Michael sounds fun, and -- of course -- I am always eager to have things "explained" to me. Like Michael, I am a fan of...

Another reader's thoughts on a right to health care

Posted on August 06, 2009
This from an MOJ reader, in response to the "health care as a right" question: My first thought is a criticism of those who claim that health care is a right. It seems that the argument for health-care (which would...

Incentives or management?

Posted on August 06, 2009
A reader asks, in response to some recent MOJ posts about health care, its status as a right, and the regulation of abortion: Pro-life apologists for Obama are now arguing that there is a right to healthcare which entails a...

Human Rights from a Religious Perspective

Posted on August 06, 2009
If any of you out there are interested in pursuing this topic, you may find this list of some use as a point of departure. (Not that I'm trying to "explain" anything to Rick G. or anyone else, mind you!)...

A quick reponse to Rick ...

Posted on August 05, 2009
Rick, you write, in the post immediately below, that you are "inclined to think that claims about 'rights' to health care are not as helpful as arguments about the moral obligations of a political community to its members." Oh my!...

Health care as a "right": a response to Michael P.

Posted on August 05, 2009
A few days ago, Michael P. asked (here), among other things, "is there a human right to (basic) health care?" I am inclined to think that claims about "rights" to health care are not as helpful as arguments about the...

George on marriage, courts, and the culture wars

Posted on August 04, 2009
If the Supreme Court imposes same-sex marriage, it will exacerbate, not heal, "culture wars" and divisions, writes Robert George in The Wall Street Journal: We are in the midst of a showdown over the legal definition of marriage. Though some...

The bishops on health-care proposals and abortion

Posted on August 04, 2009
Following up on Richard's and Michael P.'s recent posts on the current health-care debate: Here is a piece about Cardinal Rigali's recent letter to the members of the relevant House committee. He says, among other things: In this particular letter...

Farr on the Administration and religious liberty abroad

Posted on August 04, 2009
Thomas Farr is a veteran diplomat and a crucial voice in the struggle for religious liberty, here and abroad. (Read his book!) Courtesy of the American Principles Project, here (and here) are some of his thoughts on the Administration's plans...

Correcting Rick G.'s reading of my argument

Posted on August 04, 2009
In my book, I specifcally declined to argue that a state's refusal to call same-sex unions "marriages" violates the Constitution. (This is an issue that has divided some state courts--state courts that have ruled that a state's refusal to extend...

That lovable, zany wedding party dance

Posted on August 03, 2009
I did not intend to stop blogging while teaching in Rome, but the combination of teaching a partially new course, finishing my book edits, and (most significantly) keeping three children from getting run over by speeding scooters meant that something...

Berlusconi and the Italian Episcopacy

Posted on August 03, 2009
MOJ friend Pasquale Annicchino thought that some MOJ readers would be interested in the piece, from the Irish Times: Timid Church remains largely silent on Bersluconi's adventures (here). Pasquale said that the piece was "widely debated today in Italy...

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