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Hibbs on the new encyclical

Posted on July 10, 2009
Here is philosopher Thomas Hibbs, commenting on the encyclical: ?Democracy in good faith no longer has any essential reproach to make against the church. From now on it can hear the question the church poses, that it alone poses, the...

Horizonal Catholicism & the Economy of Communion

Posted on July 10, 2009
Thanks, Michael P., for the link to John Allen?s latest, in which he discusses, among other things, John Coleman?s analysis of the ?paradox? that ?Roman Catholicism should be the religious actor best positioned to engage the issues raised by globalization,...

Back to Honduras ...

Posted on July 10, 2009
Very interesting piece in The New Republic (7/10/09), by David Fontana of George Washington Law, here. Honduras and Constitutional Democracy Here in the United States, the removal of President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras has prompted disparate reactions from the political...

Well, as usual, Rick is right and I was not ...

Posted on July 09, 2009
There is one "really big" (cf. Ed Sullivan, if any of you are old enough to remember him) thing that Rick and I disagree venehmently about, and it's much more fundamental that theology or politics: namely, whether one should root...

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Agreeing with Michael P.

Posted on July 09, 2009
Not only do I also agree with Michael -- or, the Michaels -- that skepticism is appropriate regarding the "claim that every human being has inherent dignity and is inviolable can be embedded in a secular world view", I want...

Still more on Caritas

Posted on July 09, 2009
Here is a short blurb, by me, on the new encyclical: It was predictable, but is nevertheless regrettable, that many pundits and partisans would respond to Caritas in Veritate not so much by engaging Pope Benedict?s profoundly Christian humanism but...

A Thicker Liberalism

Posted on July 09, 2009
Responding to our discussion on liberalism (here, here, here, and here), Brad Lewis, a professor of Philosophy at CUA, offers a more thickly textured liberalism: It's true that liberalism as a kind of normative philosophical theory assumes or promotes a...

One woman and judge?s view

Posted on July 09, 2009
This coming Sunday?s The New York Times Magazine will publish an interview with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg entitled The Place of Women on the Court. [HERE] In part, it offers her exhortation encouraging the confirmation to the Supreme Court of...

Death with Dignity

Posted on July 09, 2009
Recommended reading: Jane Gross, "Facing Death with Dignity," NYT, 7/9/09. The byline: "A congregation of sisters outside of Rochester offers a model for successful aging and a gentle death." An excerpt: "A convent is a world apart, unduplicable. But the...

I've retired, so what else should I be doing ...

Posted on July 09, 2009
The Pew Forum, The Tablet, Commonweal, NCR ... Unlike Rick, after all, and alas, I'm an old man, surely incapable, unlike Rick, of rock-climbing in the Tetons. National Catholic Reporter The $64,000 question from Benedict's encyclical, and other Vatican goings-on...

Fraternity and the modern ageClifford

Posted on July 09, 2009
Fraternity and the modern ageClifford Longley Released on the eve of the G8 Summit, the Pope?s encyclical calls for a new world financial order guided by ethics, with a concern for humanity and a focus on justice. It emphatically unites...

CARITAS IN VERITATE

Posted on July 09, 2009
COLUMNISTS Does Obama Have a Friend in the Vatican? E. J. Dionne Jr. Here.

Liberalism and CST

Posted on July 09, 2009
At the risk of being a shameless self-promoter (hey . . . Rick taught me everything I know!), I would encourage anyone interested in the relationship between liberalism and Catholic legal theory to read my piece, recently published in the...

An Evangelical Christian as the New Head of NIH? Please Say It Ain't So!

Posted on July 09, 2009
Obama Chooses Francis Collins To Head NIH: Resources on Faith and Science President Barack Obama has announced that he will nominate Francis S. Collins, the former director of the Human Genome Project, to be the new director of the National...

Categories: Real and Reductive?

Posted on July 08, 2009
Amy asks"can we all agree that the categories are simultaneously real and reductive?" I'll give a qualified "yes" to that. They are certainly reductive and are real at least to the extent "that much of our political, social and legal...

"The Pope is a liberal"

Posted on July 08, 2009
Michael has posted -- I just knew he would! -- a link to David Gibson's "The Pope is a Liberal" piece. No doubt, the Pope's views on many questions regarding the organization and regulation of the economy put him well...

"The Place of Women on the Court"

Posted on July 08, 2009
In this Sunday's NYT Magazine, here. (As a law student, I took a class from then-Professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and if memory serves, it was the very first class she taught after joining the Columbia law faculty.)

Liberal Democracy and Moral Anthropologies

Posted on July 08, 2009
1. Liberal democracy, understood as democracy committed *both* to the inherent dignity and inviolability of every human being *and* to certain human rights, is something, I say again, we all here do affirm. 2. Liberal democracy, thus understood, does not...

An MOJ Reader Responds

Posted on July 08, 2009
William Junker writes: David Gibson's misrepresentation of the encyclical resides chiefly in his claim that ?what is clear, whether one reads every word or just excerpts, is that the pope is a liberal, at least in American political terms.? This...

Liberalisms and the Scope of Catholic Social Thought

Posted on July 08, 2009
To me it is clear that more than a thin conception of the good is needed to ground a just society. But I do not think that all liberalisms rely on a thin conception of the good. Martha Nussbaum?s conception...

Caritas in Veritate & the Trinity as a Social Model

Posted on July 08, 2009
Over at the America magazine blog, Austen Ivereigh takes issue with George Weigel's system for parsing Caritas in Veritate, and surmises that there might have been at least one other major influence in the drafting: Chiara Lubich, the founder of...

Are all MOJ-bloggers proudly liberal?

Posted on July 08, 2009
Michael P. says: "there *is* an important sense in which we MOJ-bloggers are all liberals - and proudly so" in the sense that most "conservatives" and "liberals" on the US political scene today are merely two sides of the same...

On "liberalism"

Posted on July 08, 2009
A brief comment on Rick's post--in particular, on the question of political labels. In my judgment, the heart of the problem--and it is a serious problem--with the labels "liberal" and "liberalism" is that they mean such different things to different...

The Michaels Agree??!!! (Updated)

Posted on July 08, 2009
Say it ain't so, Rick--er, I mean Joe. [Cf. here.] Surely it's all downhill from here on out. God knows that Michael P. and Rick G. will never agree! Maybe, at this moment--this mind-boggling? holy? even providential? moment--MOJ should just...

Hold the Presses, the Michaels Agree

Posted on July 08, 2009
Michael P. says, "I have expressed skepticism, in much of my work over the past several years, that the claim that every human being has inherent dignity and is inviolable can be embedded in a secular world view." I too...

Some MOJ Readers May Enjoy This "Fable"

Posted on July 08, 2009
From our friends at Vox Nova: Catholic Perspectives on Culture, Society and Politics. The Good Pope and the Bad Advisers ? A Fable by George Weigel Read it, here.

Caritas in Veritate

Posted on July 07, 2009
Here is the link to the Pope's latest encyclical.

Dear Amy,

Posted on July 07, 2009
Both real and reductive. Yes. Amen.

Michael S & Michael P: Categories

Posted on July 07, 2009
Seems like there are two things going on in your exchange: first, the need to acknowledge that much of our political, social and legal landscape is working with these categories (liberal-conservative, right-left), and so we do need to watch for...

Dear Michael S.,

Posted on July 07, 2009
Why the colon (:) rather than a comma (,)? I think that more than labels, self-righteousness makes dialogue difficult, and self-righteousness is something that we must all be on guard to avoid--myself certainly no less than anyone else. Please God....

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