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Dear Michael P.:
Posted on July 07, 2009That still leaves my two questions: What constructive purpose do these categories serve in the present context? And, Michael, would you concede that even if they do serve some constructive purpose, there is the real possibility that they also have...
Dear Michael S.,
Posted on July 07, 2009Thank you for your lecture. And, I'm delighted that I was able to prove your point. :-) [Maybe I should have added that ":-)" to my previous posts.]
Dear Michael P.:
Posted on July 07, 2009What constructive purpose do these categories serve in the present context? And, Michael, would you concede that even if they do serve some constructive purpose, there is the real possibility that they also have a destructive side, which boxes people...
Dear Michael S.,
Posted on July 07, 2009Um, we can't will the categories away, can we? And, please let me note that when the story broke about the coup involving the leftist president of Honduras, you actually posted a reference to the editorial page of the WSJ...
Boxing in Papa Ratzi
Posted on July 07, 2009Thank you Michael P. for pointing us to David Gibson's column titled "The Pope is a Liberal. Who Knew?" It amuses me in a sad sort of way that people like Gibson and others attempt continually to paint the Pope...
Caritas in Veritate: "The Pope Is a Liberal. Who Knew?"
Posted on July 07, 2009So says dotCommonwealer David Gibson, here. "Cardinal Cottier's confusion" (here) is bad enough. But Benedict XVI (a.k.a. "Pape Ratzi" [here]) a liberal--i.e., a L*I*B*E*R*A*L ... at least, of the *economic* variety? Please, Rick, say it ain't so. SAY IT AIN'T...
Cardinal Cottier's confusion
Posted on July 07, 2009A few days ago, Michael P. linked to some recent, highly complimentary remarks by Cardinal Georges Cottier about President Obama, abortion, politics, Notre Dame, etc. Others have also noticed and welcomed these remarks. I expressed, here, some skepticism...
Caritas in Veritate & The Economy of Communion
Posted on July 07, 2009It's rare for a specific project to get a shout-out in a papal enclyclical, but here's an exception: As John Allen connects the dots here and here, this paragraph of Caritas in Veritate: 46. When we consider the issues involved...
Papa Ratzi Gives a Shout Out to MOJ
Posted on July 07, 2009At the close of his new encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict offers a prayer to the Blessed Mother: ?May the Virgin Mary ? proclaimed Mater Ecclesiae by Paul VI and honoured by Christians as Speculum Iustitiae and Regina Pacis...
Caritas in Veritate
Posted on July 07, 2009Thanks to Michael S. for posting the Pope?s new encyclical Caritas in Vertate, which was released earlier today in Rome. The first thing worth noting about it is this encyclical is addressed to all the faithful, the People of God,...
Law School and the Freedom of the Church
Posted on July 07, 2009Over at Prawfsblawg, Howard Wasserman has what is for MOJ-ers a must-read post on church-autonomy, the ministerial exception, Catholic law schools, and the latest from Ave Maria School of Law. He asks, among other things: 3) I would love to...
Politics, morality and original
Posted on July 06, 2009Politics, morality and original sin The speeches by US President Barack Obama at the University of Notre Dame and at the Al-Azhar Islamic University in Cairo can be usefully compared with elements of the faith and of Christian social doctrine...
The Vatican and U.S. women religious
Posted on July 06, 2009The Vatican and U.S. women religious By Richard McBrien Created Jul 06, 2009 I did not intend to comment on the Vatican's decision late last year to conduct a visitation of religious communities of women in the United States because...
Pope Benedict on "following the prevailing winds"
Posted on July 06, 2009From the American Papist blog, a recent statement -- made in the context of the Year of St. Paul -- by Pope Benedict (emphasis not mine): "Paul wants the Christian faith have a 'responsible', an 'adult faith," said the Holy...
"The Alternative Tradition in America
Posted on July 06, 2009Patrick Deneen has an interesting post at Front Porch Republic critiquing the conservative and liberal strands of American liberalism.
From MOJ Friend Gerry Whyte
Posted on July 06, 2009Trinity College (Dublin) Law Prof Gerry Whyte sends this our way: Welcome, Obama. The Vatican Plays Him a Fanfare On the eve of the visit of the president of the United States to the pope, Cardinal Cottier, for many years...
"On Catholic Journalism, Abortion, and Obama"
Posted on July 06, 2009Another informative post by Drew Christiansen, SJ, editor of America, here.
Drew Christiansen, SJ, editor of America, on his recent meeting with Obama
Posted on July 06, 2009Interesting reading, here.
Rev. Robert J. Araujo, S.J. Joins the Law Faculty at Loyola Chicago
Posted on July 06, 2009I am pleased to announce something of which many, but not all, members of MOJ are already aware, namely, that Rev. Robert J. Araujo, S.J. has joined the faculty at Loyola University Chicago School of Law as the inaugural chair-holder...
Our prayers, love, and support are with Mark Sargent
Posted on July 04, 2009Our friend and colleague, Mark Sargent, resigned this week as dean of Villanova University School of Law under very painful circumstances. Our prayers, love, and support are with Mark and his family in this difficult time. We pray for healing...
Dear Michael S.,
Posted on July 04, 2009In response to your post: I'm sorry that what I said was not clear. Of course, the Vatican's own explanation for its investigation is non-patriarchal, non-sexist, whatever. (By the way, by "sexist" I do *not* mean "misogynistic".) The question I...
Non-sexist explanations for scrutiny
Posted on July 04, 2009The New York Times article (U.S. Nuns Facing Vatican Scrutiny) linked by Michael P., his comments (?I doubt there is a non-patriarchal (non-sexist?) explanation for??), and the response by Fr. Araujo (Sr. Brink said that the Religious Life she proposes...
Happy 4th
Posted on July 04, 2009WE, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People...
Dear Robert, John, and Rick,
Posted on July 04, 2009Thanks very much for your posts (here, here, and here). MOJ-readers are, of course, much better off--much better informed--hearing from all of us than just from some of us. And thank God friendship--including even that special friendship we call marriage--doesn't...
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder . . . But All that Glitters Is Not Gold, Even When It Is Described As Such
Posted on July 03, 2009In offering an alternative headline to the one put forth by Rick Garnett describing President Obama?s policies with respect to abortion overseas, Michael Perry reminds us of what we all learned on the first day of law school ? that...
A Fourth of July mistake
Posted on July 03, 2009With respect to Michael's post, recommending some "Fourth of July reading", "Swiss Cardinal George Cottier, 87, former theologian of the papal household under Pope John Paul II," is, unfortunately, mistaken about what the views, policies, and plans of President Obama...
Beauty is not ALWAYS in the eye of the beholder: A response to Michael
Posted on July 03, 2009Michael is right, of course, to imply that words matter and that it is often the case that a particular state of affairs can be described in different ways, to different effects. As we all know, sometimes, things are described...
Scavi Tour
Posted on July 03, 2009Visiting the Necropolis under St. Peter's is one of the highlights of my past two trips to Rome, and I recommend anyone going to Rome contact the Scavi office well in advance for tickets. Now, this tour is also available...
Some Fourth of July Reading ...
Posted on July 03, 2009Former papal theologian praises Obama's 'realism,' even on abortion By John L. Allen Jr. Swiss Cardinal George Cottier, 87, former theologian of the papal household under Pope John Paul II,has praised Obama's "humble realism" and compared the president's approach to...
Faith and Doubt on the Feast of St. Thomas
Posted on July 03, 2009On this Feast of Doubting Thomas, I reread the words of Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) on pages40-41 of Introduction to Christianity: [B]oth the believer and the unbeliever share, each in his own way, doubt and belief, if they...
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