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Memos/Letters on Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on August 02, 2009
Over the last months, there have been MOJ posts about the efforts of an assortment of religious-liberty scholars --including MOJers Berg, Garnett, and Perry -- proposing strong religious-liberty protections for conscientious objectors in states where same-sex marriage has been or...

"A Catholic Framework for Evaluating Health Reform"

Posted on August 02, 2009
See Cathy Kaveny's post, today, at dotCommonweal; see especially the material at the links Cathy provides (here). Is there a human right to (basic) health care? What is the magisterium's position on that issue? If there is such a human...

The Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Posted on July 31, 2009
To readers and contributors of the Mirror of Justice, a blessed feast of Saint Ignatius of Loyola! May his company of Jesus be faithful to the vocation of the least Society of Jesus. Saint Ignatius, pray for us! May Mary,...

Two new blogs of interest

Posted on July 30, 2009
I learned the other day about a new group blog, run by a group of in-formation (not-yet-ordained) Jesuits, called "Whosoeverdesires". Check it out. Lots of interesting stuff. I also discovered that one of these young Jesuits has a blog of...

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National Health Care as a Struggle for the Moral Validation of Abortion

Posted on July 30, 2009
Inclusion of abortion in an official national healthcare plan is a communal imprimatur, similar to the imprimatur received for gay sex when gay marriage is approved. It does more than increase liberty; it says that nothing is significantly wrong with...

MOJ among the "stickiest" law blogs

Posted on July 29, 2009
According to uber-law-blogger Paul Caron, Mirror of Justice is the sixth (!) "stickiest" law blog; that is, our visitors spend, relatively speaking, much more time at our blog than do the visitors to most law blogs. I choose to chalk...

Open Letter on "No Clothes" Athletes

Posted on July 29, 2009
Here's a deftly written open letter to ESPN Magazine on the news that it is considering publishing an issue of "no clothes" pictures of athletes in an effort to one-up the Sports Illustrated swimsuits. And here, by the same author,...

PSSST: Why MOJ is such a sticky blog ...

Posted on July 29, 2009
Thanks for the info, Rick. The reason for MOJ's high stickiness rating: Each time I visit MOJ, I remain for hours and hours, sometimes staring in disbelief, scratching my head at what I see, wondering what, if anything, to say...

More on Saletan's "pragmatism" on abortion

Posted on July 29, 2009
It has been suggested -- at Slate, at Commonweal, and elsewhere -- that opposition to (or even, it seems, doubts about) the Preventing Unintended Pregnancies, Reducing the Need for Abortion, and Supporting Parents Act makes one a "militant" (boo!) rather...

These two papers, recently posted on SSRN, look to be interesting

Posted on July 28, 2009
"No Male or Female" U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 266 MARY ANNE CASE, University of Chicago Law School Email: macase@law.uchicago.edu For this, my contribution to the Feminist Legal Theory Projects's Twenty-fifth Anniversary Volume Beyond the Boundaries of...

The possibility of "vigorous debate" on abortion

Posted on July 28, 2009
Many of us very much want to be reasonable and realistic when it comes to difficult and divisive questions regarding the use of law to promote and protect moral goods. The perfect should not, this side of Heaven, be seen...

Brooks on children, the future, and hope

Posted on July 28, 2009
It has struck me as a shame that David Brooks's columns are not more often as good as yesterday's, "The Power of Posterity." Although Pope Benedict is not mentioned, the column reveals the author's (perhaps unconscious) appreciation for the fact...

English Translation of the International Theological Commission text on the Natural Law

Posted on July 28, 2009
In previous postings, I have commented on the International Theological Commission's recent paper entitled "The Search for Universal Ethics: A New Look at the Natural Law." A while back I offered a synopsis of the text. While no official English...

"Impasses in today's [Catholic] Church"?

Posted on July 27, 2009
[In his weekly column, Notre Dame theologian Fr. Richard McBrien writes:] Terrence Tilley is chair of the Department of Theology at Fordham University and immediate past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. In his presidential address at the...

Building the City of Mary

Posted on July 27, 2009
I am just back from a Focolare?s northeast summer gathering held at the University of Scranton, ?Mariapolis? (city of Mary) where about 400 people of all ages and from an amazing variety of ethnic and social backgrounds, came together for...

A "Rorschach Test on Abortion"?

Posted on July 27, 2009
Check it out, over at dotCommonweal.

Hey, Rick, which brand do you prefer ... if either?

Posted on July 27, 2009
John Harwood, formerly of the WSJ, and now of the NYT, writes about "Competing Brands of Republicanism", here.

Catholic nurse claims she was forced to participate in late-term abortion

Posted on July 27, 2009
More here. One hopes that the "reasonable" conscience protections that the President has claimed he supports would apply in cases like this.

"Affordable Health Choices Act" and the End of Life

Posted on July 27, 2009
It's often been observed that one of the challenges facing our (and other developed countries') health-care systems is the increasing percentage of health-care spending that goes to those who are very near death. It has also been observed that one...

A New Essay by MOJ's Patrick Brennan

Posted on July 26, 2009
The Place of 'Higher Law' in the Quotidian Practice of Law: Herein of Practical Reason, Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Sex Toys Patrick McKinley Brennan Villanova University School of Law Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Forthcoming Villanova Law/Public...

"Catholic Social Thought and Citizenship"

Posted on July 26, 2009
That's the title of the symposium published in the Summer 2009 issue of Villanova's Journal of Catholic Social Thought (Vol. 6, No. 2). Many interesting papers--including one by MOJ blogger John Breen and another by former MOJ blogger Greg Kalscheuer,...

"An Abortion Battle, Fought to the Death" ...

Posted on July 26, 2009
... here.

Health Care Rationing continued

Posted on July 23, 2009
Villanova law professor, Ellen Wertheim, responds to previoius postings on health care rationing with this: The exchange on health care rationing has been particularly fascinating, as I teach in the areas of law and medicine and bioethics. If you ask...

"What Truths We Hold"

Posted on July 23, 2009
Bernard J. Coughlin, S.J., former president and current chancellor of Gonzaga University, has an excellent essay "on the square" on President Obama's call for common ground on abortion. Here is a taste: In the nineteenth century it was the right...

Charity is not the same as being generous

Posted on July 23, 2009
A reader responds to another reader who wrote "government mandated health care may decrease the amount of charity given to those in need by generous strangers." The second reader responds: Being charitable is not being generous. It is a duty....

Health Care Rationing Part X

Posted on July 23, 2009
A reader responded to my posting of Prof. Wertheim's comments on health care rationing. The reader seems skeptical (perhaps less skeptical than me) of the government's ability to ration health care in a better manner than the market. But, the...

"What Truths We Hold": Reflections

Posted on July 23, 2009
This morning, I posted Bernard Coughlin, S.J.'s essay "What Truths We Hold," referring to it as an excellent essay. After a back and forth email exchange with one of our readers, my opinion of the piece has been downgraded from...

NYT, July 23, 2009 House Democrats

Posted on July 23, 2009
NYT, July 23, 2009 House Democrats Seek Moderate Ground on Abortion By Bernie Becker Democratic House members from both sides of the abortion debate are introducing legislation aimed at trying to reduce the number of abortions around the country. Introduced...

"As U.S. troops withdraw, Iraqi Catholics targeted"

Posted on July 22, 2009
"Analysts say Islamic militants are trying to drive out last of naion's Christian minority." For this OSV story, click here.

Leader of the Free World

Posted on July 22, 2009
A reader responds: Thanks for posting the D'Agata essay. One very minor thing jumped out at me, but something I've never really thought of before. The president of the United States is often described as "the leader of the free...

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