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Institute of Bioethics

Posted on July 15, 2009
Check out the Institutue for Bioethics at Franciscan University. Patrick Lee is the director of the Institute and many of his articles and lectures are available here.

Posted on July 15, 2009
You and Barack and your fellow Democrats can have the White Sox and their success. But, the truly Catholic (and catholic, BTW) baseball team in Chicago is the Cubbies. With our crucifixes, Catholics remember and embrace Good Friday everyday in...

Homosexuality and Slavery in the Bible

Posted on July 14, 2009
Sightings 7/13/09 Homosexuality and Slavery in the Bible -- Martin E. Marty Annually I write the report on "Protestantism" for World Book and other yearbooks. For a dozen or score of years now, the lead story always has to be...

Distributivist ideas on the current economic crisis

Posted on July 14, 2009
Allan Carlson reports on an interesting conference organized by the G.K. Chesterton Institute and held last weekend in Oxford, England. Carlson's report is well worth the read: here.

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Sotomayor Hearings

Posted on July 14, 2009
[I received this a little while ago.] Thought this may be of interest to your readers? As Judge Sotomayor's confirmation hearings get under way today, Beliefnet bloggers Barry Lynn and Jay Sekulow, the two leading voices of the church-and-state battle...

Barack: A Lefty . . . But a White Sox Fan!

Posted on July 14, 2009
To anyone who ever doubted, the video here proves indisputably that President Obama is a confirmed lefty. Props to the Prez for showing his support for Chicago?s premier baseball team ? the White Sox (AL Central Division champs in 2008...

The Status and Value of Stare Decisis

Posted on July 14, 2009
With the nomination hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to fill the vacancy on the United States Supreme Court underway, it is inevitable that the issue of stare decisis will eventually be addressed. Judge Sotomayor has anticipated the inevitability by raising...

Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice award winner nominated for Surgeon General Post

Posted on July 13, 2009
From Whisper in the Loggia: ...the President drew further from the US church's diverse ranks this morning with the nomination of his Surgeon General -- this time, an African-American Catholic. Founder of a rural Alabama health clinic for the poor...

An MOJ reader from Europe on "Caritas in Veritate"

Posted on July 13, 2009
This from Pasquale Annicchino: A Progressive-Conservative Pope? Prof. Scarpelanda posted the article authored by Ross Douthat on Caritas in Veritate and published by the New York Times. According to Douthat: ?Benedict?s encyclical is nothing if not political...

Now, Notre Dame's Fr. Richard McBrien weighs in ...

Posted on July 13, 2009
In his column today for NCR, "Women religious leadership conference has been faithful to its mission," here. An excerpt: [I am amazed] that there could be any "doctrinal" concerns about the organization and its leadership. Some of the finest women...

Is there an echo in here?

Posted on July 13, 2009
In yesterday's NYT: What the Sisters Are Up To By FRANCIS X. CLINES Across 30 years, the modern version of the Sisters of St. Joseph has been revolutionizing the treatment of imprisoned women in New York. Thanks to the nuns?...

"The Audacity of the Pope"

Posted on July 13, 2009
Yesterday?s New York Times ran a thought provoking op-ed by Ross Douthat on Caritas in Veritate and the need for political re-imagination. Here are parts of it: Papal encyclicals are supposed to be written with one eye on two millenniums...

Reply to Rick G.

Posted on July 13, 2009
Reply to what? This. Jab? Jab?! I don't do no stinking jabs! (Any "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" fans out there? Rick?)

Disorientation

Posted on July 13, 2009
I am very disoriented, after reading Michael S.'s post, immediately preceding. $1,000,000 to the first MOJ blogger or reader who can explain why (i.e., other than Rick Garnett). :-) ;-) :-) ;-) :-) !!!!!

St. Bernard, pray for us

Posted on July 12, 2009
St. Bernard of Montjoux is the patron saint of alpinists. I'll be invoking him next week, when I'm climbing here:

"Catholicism as Antidote to Turbo-Capitalism"

Posted on July 12, 2009
Here!

Picking the Pope

Posted on July 12, 2009
In response to Michael's jab, a few things: First, with all due respect to Fr. McBrien, and notwithstanding the fact that Michael and I like many of the same books, Eamon Duffy's is a better history of the Popes. Second,...

John Allen, Notre Dame's Cathy Kaveny, and Others on Obama and the Vatican

Posted on July 11, 2009
New York Times July 10, 2009 Does Obama Have a Friend in the Vatican? By The Editors Photo: Chris Helgren/Associated Press President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama met with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday. President...

Blessed John Newman on Catholic universities

Posted on July 11, 2009
Thanks to my colleague and MOJ-friend John O'Callaghan for sending this along: Here, then, I conceive, is the object of the Holy See and the Catholic Church in setting up Universities; it is to reunite things which were in the...

Obama is "more Catholic than the Pope"?

Posted on July 11, 2009
The claim that Pope Benedict XVI is a "liberal" was, I thought, implausible. Now Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is upping the ante. She contends, here, that "Barack Obama represents American Catholics better than the pope does." "Notre Dame awarded the president...

Welcome back to "Evangelical Catholicism"

Posted on July 11, 2009
After a two-year-or-so hiatus, the very interesting blog "Evangelical Catholicism" is back. (Contributors Michael and Katerina had been blogging at Vox Nova. More here.)

Dear Robert,

Posted on July 11, 2009
Amen!

A follow-up to Michael

Posted on July 11, 2009
Thanks to Michael Perry who has brought our attention to The New York Times article posted this afternoon regarding President Obama?s stirring speech given to the Ghanian Parliament. As Michael?s reference to the speech itself and to The New York...

Should a faithful Catholic who is rich--i.e., "very rich"--be willing to pay more taxes to fund universal health care?

Posted on July 11, 2009
Here, here, and here.

Whether you voted for or against Obama, ...

Posted on July 11, 2009
... whether your name is Rick Garnett or John O'Callaghan or whatever--and even if you believe that the Holy Spirit picked Joseph Ratzinger to be pope (cf. here; BTW, Joseph Ratzinger himself [!] suggested, in effect, that for one who...

Nixon:China::Benedict XVI:Capitalism

Posted on July 10, 2009
Just a (tortured?) thought ...

"When Benny Met Barry"

Posted on July 10, 2009
Rick's friend David Gibson is at it again, over at dotCommonweal, here.

Family Ties: What do we think?

Posted on July 10, 2009
Over at Prawfsblawg, Dan Markel, Ethan Lieb, and Jennifer Collins have put up their "intro freaky post" describing their recent book project, "Privilege or Punish." As much as I like the authors, I have to agree that the post --...

Robert George on the marriage debate

Posted on July 10, 2009
Here, at Public Discourse, is an interview with Prof George, about the state-of-play in the debate over re-defining marriage to include same-sex relationships. A taste: [An] insidious and brutal way in which many advocates of sexual liberalism deploy cultural power...

Ninth Circuit rejects pharmacists' religious-conscience claims

Posted on July 10, 2009
The Los Angeles Times has the story, here: The right to freely exercise one's religion "does not relieve an individual of the obligation to comply with a valid and neutral law of general applicability," the 9th Circuit panel wrote. "Any...

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