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Cross and Gavel

Posted on June 02, 2009
Check out Regent law prof (and MoJ-friend) Mike Schutt's "Cross and Gavel" website, which is designed to be a "comprehensive resource for Christian lawyers and law students who believe that faith is central to law practice and study." He has...

Agape as (a type of) self-love, not creative love

Posted on June 02, 2009
I recently asked whether Anders Nygren's view of agape love is consistent with Catholic teaching. As Fr. Araujo and Mike Moreland pointed out, it's not. Josef Pieper, in his remarkable Faith, Hope, Love, takes on Nygren directly. It is well...

Should Liberty University lose its tax-exempt status?

Posted on June 02, 2009
1. Liberty University's decision to revoke recognition of its chapter of the College Democrats is unwise and crazily short-sighted. 2. The suggestion that the university's action should jeopardize its tax-exempt status is unwise and crazily short-sighted...

Martin Marty on "Supreme Court Catholics"

Posted on June 01, 2009
Sightings 6/1/09 Supreme Court Catholics -- Martin E. Marty If/when Judge Sonia Sotomayor is sworn in as a member of the United States Supreme Court, there would/will be six Roman Catholics on it. My trained and focused eye -- trained...

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Meilaender on stem-cell research and torture

Posted on June 01, 2009
This essay is long, but well worth the time. I particularly liked this: If human beings were simply members of our species, it might sometimes make sense to sacrifice one or another of them for the sake of the species...

More from Robert George, regarding science and the abortion debate

Posted on June 01, 2009
Responding to Michael Sean Winters's review of his recent National Press Club conversation with Doug Kmiec, Prof. George writes: . . . [Mr. Winters] attribute[s] to me the very reverse of what I hold about whether science can resolve the...

Conference of interest at Baylor

Posted on June 01, 2009
Click here to learn more about the "Third Annual Baylor Symposium on Faith and Culture." This year's theme is "Secularization and Revival: The Fate of Religion in Modern Intellectual History". Check it out. The speaker lineup is fantastic.

Arbp. Chaput's Canterbury Award remarks

Posted on June 01, 2009
This year's recipient of the Canterbury Award, given out by my friends at the Becket Fund (go here and give them money) is Archbishop Charles Chaput. His remarks on the occasion are here. A taste: My job tonight is to...

Linker's Question for George, and Dreher's answer

Posted on June 01, 2009
It comes as no surprise, of course, that some are seizing on the murder of Dr. Tiller as an occasion to either blame those who insist on reminding the world that our legal regime does not treat unborn children justly...

Sola Scriptura and the Constitution

Posted on June 01, 2009
This post, by Vox Nova's Blackadder, is well worth a read. A bit: Conservatives who advocate originalism or textualism when in comes to interpreting the Constitution are sometimes accused of advocating a ?sola scriptura? view of the Constitution. Since such...

"Religious Freedom Depends on Catholic Bishops"?

Posted on June 01, 2009
An interesting (and, to me, persuasive) suggestion. Thoughts?

"The Moral and Legal Case for School Choice"

Posted on June 01, 2009
If you are in or near Chicago, and especially if you need C.L.E., you might want to come to this event, sponsored by the Lumen Christi Institute. Fr. Tim Scully (the man behind, among other things, Notre Dame's Alliance for...

"The New Civil Rights Struggle"

Posted on June 01, 2009
Is school choice, explains Brendan Miniter, here. He has an interesting account of a new, promising coalition forming in South Carolina for education reform.

Christian Century Piece on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

Posted on June 01, 2009
I have an article up on same-sex marriage and religious liberty in the online version of The Christian Century, the moderate-to-liberal Christian magazine. Sample paragraph, for the argument that exemptions should extend to religious organizations broadly and to small businesspeople...

Consistent Life statement on Tiller

Posted on June 01, 2009
I did not draft this statement, but as someone on the Consistent Life national board, I voted for it. Richard Consistent Life, an international network of 200 groups and many individuals for peace, justice and life, condemns the assassination of...

Murder in Kansas

Posted on May 31, 2009
George Tiller, one of the country's more well-known performers of late-term abortions, has -- it is being reported -- been murdered, at his church, in Wichita. This is horrible.

George, Glendon, and Kmiec at the Nat'l Press Club

Posted on May 31, 2009
Last Thursday, the Catholic University of America sponsored an event which involved a discussion, moderated by Mary Ann Glendon, between Robert George and Doug Kmiec, on "life issues" and the Obama Administration. A version of Professor George's statement is available...

The new "First Things" site

Posted on May 31, 2009
If you have not yet checked out the new "First Things" site, you should. It's really impressive -- a half-dozen blogs, plus "On the Square" and the material from the print-magazine. Joe Carter, the new web editor, has done a...

"Redeemed" and the Catholic Church in Ireland

Posted on May 30, 2009
I have been reading Heather King's book Redeemed, which the Boston Globe says (accurately, I think) that "this memoir deserves to be as popular as Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray, Love. It is a wonderful book of finding Christ and His...

?So Catholic it forgot to be Christian?

Posted on May 29, 2009
[From The Tablet, May 30, 2009. By Paul Keenan.] One priest's reaction sums up Ireland's increasing fury over the sexual and physical abuse suffered by so many of its children, and the cover-ups and paltry compensation offered by the religious...

University Faculty for Life conference at St. Thomas

Posted on May 29, 2009
The annual conference of University Faculty for Life (UFL) will be held next week (June 5-6, 2009) at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis. Gilbert Meilaender will be speaking at the banquet on Saturday evening. Rob Vischer...

Gerry Whyte Sends This Our Way ...

Posted on May 29, 2009
After the truth David Quinn Published 29 May 2009 The Ryan Commission has revealed decades of child abuse within institutions run by the Irish Catholic Church. An Irish journalist explores where Catholicism in Ireland goes from here Justice Sean Ryan...

"With Diaz nomination [as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican], Obama passes major Catholic test"

Posted on May 28, 2009
So says John Allen, in an interesting piece, here.

Michael Perry v. Steve Shiffrin? And other Judge Sotomayor-related thoughts

Posted on May 28, 2009
Gather round! Steve Shiffrin writes, here, that "activism" is "just an ideological term employed by conservatives, and it should be understood as such." (In recent years, actually, liberals have taken to the term, too.) Michael Perry's new book, though, Constitutional...

Cuban Born Liberation Theologian Obama's pick as Ambassador to the Holy See

Posted on May 28, 2009
Catholic News Agency reports: In a surprising move, President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday evening that Miguel H. Diaz, Ph.D., a 45 year old lay Liberation theologian born in Havana (Cuba) is his pick to become the United States Ambassador...

Catholics and the Court

Posted on May 28, 2009
A newspaper reporter just asked me a few questions about the whole "Catholics and the Court" issue. Here is what I said / wrote: 1. Why do you think there are so many Catholic Supreme Court justices? Part of the...

In response to Rick ...

Posted on May 28, 2009
Rick asked (here), and, so, I answer. I don't like the term judicial "activism" (or judicial "activist"), because the term can and does mean different things to different people. As Rick, who has kindly read my new book, knows, I...

Sotomayor may not be so bad

Posted on May 27, 2009
Sotomayor is being attacked by pro-lifers for two reasons: She is said to be pro-abortion, and she is said to be a judicial activist. But on each of the three past occasions when abortion was connected to the case before...

Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul

Posted on May 27, 2009
I haven't finished grading yet, but I have finished the first book on my summer reading list - Father Joe: The Man Who Saved My Soul by Tony Hendra. Andrew Sullivan writes: "Extrodinary, luminescent, profound ... I beg you to...

Sotomayor and religious freedom

Posted on May 27, 2009
Prof. Howard Friedman, at the "Religion Clause" blog, has collected Judge Sotomayor's religious-freedom decisions, here. In my view, notwithstanding the (unsurprising) fact that my strong preference would have been for Justice Souter to have been replaced by someone selected by...

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