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Over at The Immanent Frame, a new

Posted on July 22, 2009
Over at The Immanent Frame, a new post this morning of interest to MOJ readers: Religious and sexual freedoms are not opposed Read it here.

I agree, Religious and Sexual Freedoms are not opposed

Posted on July 22, 2009
Michael P., you are right, religious and sexual freedoms are not opposed. And, it is fitting that you would have so titled your post on this the memorial of Mary Magdelene. As Fr. Raymond-Leopold Bruckberger, O.P. said: "There must have...

OMG: Obama is not a U.S. citizen!!!!!

Posted on July 22, 2009
Please reassure me, Rick, that this is not a critical mass of the base--or "base"--of the Republican Party. See here.

Political Reduction of the Church's Reality

Posted on July 21, 2009
Dino D'Agata concludes his essay, The Pope and the President: From Notre Dame to Vatican City and Back, with these words: [T]he Church?s claim?that it is the bearer of Christ Himself in the world despite many of the highly glaring...

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Responding to my post on health

Posted on July 20, 2009
Responding to my post on health care rationing, Denise Hunnell writes: I responded to Peter Singer's article here. The problem with rationing is that it judges the patient, not the treatment. Catholic teaching is that we must determine what is...

More on Health Care Rationing

Posted on July 20, 2009
From a reader, responding to my post on health care rationing. I think you're correct regarding the rationing question. In my opinion (and in the opinion of others more interesting than myself), the term rationing is being misused. Because resources....

Her Choice, Her Problem: How Abortion Empowers Men

Posted on July 20, 2009
FIRST THINGS has a short essay by me with the above title, in which I explore the effect of choice on solidarity. Since that essay is a bit truncated, and is not available online in any event, I am providing...

As the world turns ...

Posted on July 20, 2009
[From a news release dated July 20, 2009:] On 2 July 2009, the Constitutional Court of Slovenia held that Article 22 of the Registration of Same Sex Partnerships Act (RSSPA) violated the right to non-discrimination under Article 14 of the...

Jimmy Carter on the Religious Subjugation of Women

Posted on July 20, 2009
The magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church, with its patriarchal conception of the priesthood, is certainly not immune to Carter's critique, here. One of the commentators at dotCommonweal writes: The Bible is meant to be used. but in an enlightened...

Ross Douthat on "Race in 2028"

Posted on July 20, 2009
I'm inclined to agree with Douthat. And you? See what he has to say, here.

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch

Posted on July 19, 2009
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Healing Polarization & Focolare?s Economy of Communion

Posted on July 18, 2009
A few thoughts on John Allen?s ?gut check for American Catholicism.? I know you will all be shocked to read that I?d agree with his assessment that among the ?winners? in the encyclical is Focolare and its Economy of Communion...

Abortion-funding and the Health Care Plan

Posted on July 18, 2009
According to the National Right to Life Committee (fact-sheet here), the proposed plan "will result in federally mandated coverage of abortion on demand in virtually all of America's health plans" and could also pre-empt (FOCA-style) many state laws that currently...

the place to be this fall

Posted on July 18, 2009
When planning your itinerary (I'm tempted to say itinerarium mentis . . . ) for this fall, don't forget to come to Villanova. We've got lots of very good stuff on offer, and Philadelphia is especially beautiful in the autumn....

Mountain man or new urbanist

Posted on July 17, 2009
Will the real Rick G., please stand up. Are you a mountain man or a new urbanist at heart?

Rocks vs. People

Posted on July 17, 2009
Welcome back to Rick! His trip sounds (and looks) like it was a wonderful experience. From a visual standpoint, it looks especially enticing to those of us here in the flatlands of the Middle West which, when it comes to...

"Til Joint Assisted Suicide Do Us Part"

Posted on July 17, 2009
More on health care and the culture of death: British conductor Sir Edward Downes died last week, alongside his wife, at an assisted-suicide facility in Switzerland. Lady Downes was in the final stages of terminal cancer; Sir Edward was ailing...

Blog rankings

Posted on July 17, 2009
Uber-law-blogger Paul Caron has posted the latest law-blog rankings here. MOJ is doing very well, but . . . it is a bit tough to be lagging behind the Wills, Trusts, & Estates Profs blog. So, tell all your friends...

St. Bernard comes through

Posted on July 17, 2009
As I mentioned here, I spent this week climbing in the Tetons. It was a sublime, if exhausting, experience. Thanks to all for the prayers and e-mails. Here is Teewinot, which I climbed on Wednesday: Does this have anything to...

"Making Men Moral" at 15

Posted on July 17, 2009
At Public Discourse, Micah Watson has posted an essay on Robert George's Making Men Moral, which was published 15 years ago. A bit: The work of Princeton professor Robert P. George has now spanned three decades and addressed several subjects,...

Allen's gut check

Posted on July 17, 2009
Thank you Michael P. for posting John Allen's latest. I wanted to highlight two bits of Allen's essay: [T]he real "losers" from Caritas in Veritate are Catholics who operate as chaplains to political parties, cheerleaders for political candidates, and spin...

More on Health Care

Posted on July 17, 2009
At the end of his discussion of Peter Singers call for rationed health care, Fr. Araujo says: "If the treatment is available and will do good for that person, it should be made available." Is this always true? Two further...

A gut check for American Catholicism

Posted on July 17, 2009
A gut check for American Catholicism A gut check for American Catholicism By John L Allen Jr NCR, Jul 17, 2009 A broken wrist notwithstanding, Pope Benedict XVI is relaxing in Valle d?Aosta in northern Italy from July 13 to...

The Cubs, the White Sox, and A Kind of Redemption

Posted on July 16, 2009
Michael S. was kind enough to respond to my post on the President being a lefty, yet still having the virtue of being a White Sox fan. In his post, he boldly claims that ?the truly Catholic (and catholic, BTW)...

"The New Yorker" and its "repellent" treatment of nuns ...

Posted on July 16, 2009
Those who write this kind of crap are culpably ignorant. I concur in what James Martin, SJ, says in America, here.

Peter Singer on Health Care Rationing

Posted on July 16, 2009
This coming Sunday?s The New York Times Magazine, July 19, will have a fascinating article on the rationing of health care authored by Princeton University?s Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics Peter Singer. The article is HERE ??Why We Must...

Survey of religion at America's colleges and universities

Posted on July 16, 2009
First Things is taking a survey (online) about the state of religion on America's campuses both private and public. If you are intersted please click here and fill out the survey.

Health Care Debate

Posted on July 16, 2009
Thank you Fr. Araujo for linking us to Peter Singer's article on health care. I hope to have more to say on that later. Denise Hunnell, who has a certification in health care ethics with the National Catholic Bioethics Center...

"The Government Want YOU .... to stay in Love .... What?"

Posted on July 15, 2009
MOJ friend and alum, Helen Alvare, has a thoughtful post on the Culture of Life Foundation website. It begins: Several columns ago, I addressed the worry that our country?s nearly 40% out of wedlock birthrate might represent some sort of...

Investigation of Women Religious: A Reader Responds

Posted on July 15, 2009
A reader responds to the posts on the investigation of women religious: ?I have read with interest the posts on MOJ about the Vatican investigation of women's religious orders. I have noticed that some of the nuns who have commented...

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