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Reminder: Annual Meeting of the Conference of Catholic Legal Thought

Posted on May 27, 2009
REMINDER: The 4th Annual Conference on Catholic Legal Thought, will be hosted at Catholic University?s Law School (Washington D.C.) from June 9 ? 11, 2009. If you are a law professor with an interest in Catholic Legal Thought, please join...

Doug Kmiec on Sonia Sotomayor

Posted on May 27, 2009
Here.

Father Joe and activism

Posted on May 27, 2009
Two separate points. I too recommend Father Joe. It is an excellent book (though I found Father Joe's visitor annoying some of the time). I also appreciate Richard's point about Sotomayor. If she is pro choice, she can hardly be...

"On Sotomayor, Some Abortion Rights Backers Show Unease "

Posted on May 27, 2009
According to an article in the NYT: "Judge Sotomayor has also ruled on several immigration cases involving people fighting deportation orders to China on the grounds that its population-control policy of forcible abortions and birth control constituted persecution...

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Eduardo Pe�alver on Sonia Sotomayor

Posted on May 27, 2009
Read what former MOJ blogger Eduardo has to say, here. Very interesting indeed.

Six (!!!) Catholics on the Court?

Posted on May 26, 2009
So, it sounds like President Obama will nominate Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice Souter. Could it be that we will soon have a Supreme Court that is two-thirds Catholic (and 1/9th "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant")? Poor Chris Hitchens! And now....

Calo on CST and human rights

Posted on May 26, 2009
Valpo law prof Zachary Calo has posted his new paper, Catholic Social Thought, Political Liberalism, and the Idea of Human Rights. Here is the abstract: As the dominant moral vocabulary of modernity, the language of human rights establishes significant points...

Scholars' letter re: SSM and religious liberty

Posted on May 26, 2009
Download NY letter. Here (that is, back there

California Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8.

Posted on May 26, 2009
I haven't yet read the decision, but you can read it in full here.

Catholics on the Court

Posted on May 26, 2009
Six down, three to go! We can't relax until we've captured every seat!

Taking the President at His Word

Posted on May 25, 2009
A week ago at Notre Dame, President Obama indicated his willingness to ?honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause.? Given his actions to date, some, like Wesley Smith, are inclined to view...

The Church and the Abuse of Children, Con't

Posted on May 25, 2009
[MOJ friend Gerry Whyte (professor of law and former dean of the law faculty, Trinity College Dublin) sends this:] Further to the child abuse scandal in Ireland, MOJ readers may be interested in this opinion piece in today's Irish Times...

More on religious freedom, exemptions, and SSM

Posted on May 24, 2009
Picking up on Bill A.'s recent Prawfsblawg post (here), I thought MOJ readers might be interested in this piece, by Peter Steinfels, in the Times ("Same-Sex Marriage Laws Pose Protection Quandary"), and this post, by Andy Koppelman, at Balkinization ("Support...

Sex Abuse and the Church

Posted on May 23, 2009
For discussion of the sex abuse report regarding the Irish Church, see http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/blog/?p=3213 including the comments section. For information about the problem generally, see bishopaccountability.org.

Sexual Abuse in the Irish Church

Posted on May 23, 2009
Here, here, and here. UPDATE: The matter is so horrible. Some fairly wonder whether the institutional church isn't irredeemably corrupt. Consider this reflection (NCR, 5/22/09) by Dominican priest Thomas Doyle, a canon lawyer and advocate for those abused by priests...

Steinfels on Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty

Posted on May 23, 2009
In this week's NY Times "Beliefs" column, Peter Steinfels writes about the efforts (involving three MOJers, Perry, Garnett, and Berg) to add meaningful religious-liberty protections to statutes recognizing same-sex marriage. He isn't enthralled with the literary style of our proposed...

Moreland on Nygren

Posted on May 22, 2009
My guess regarding the compatibility of Bishop Nygren's view (that God's agape love creates human value, rather than recognizes human value) with Catholic teaching (a guess based on human dignity deriving from the Imago Dei, which itself can be seen....

Same-Sex Marriage, New Hampshire, and Religious Liberty

Posted on May 22, 2009
To see a copy of the letter drafted by Doug Laycock (who supports same-sex marriage), co-signed by (inter alia) me (like Doug, I support same-sex marriage, and sent to the governor of New Hampshire today, click here.

The Vatican, Obama, and Abortion, Revisited

Posted on May 22, 2009
[Excerpts from John Allen's Friday missive in NCR:] [T]he two most widely read news sources in and around the Vatican have commented on the Obama appearance: L'Osservatore Romano, the semi-official Vatican daily, and L'Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops'...

The Execution of John Fisher

Posted on May 22, 2009
Thanks to a friend on Facebook for passing on this clip, from Showtime's "The Tudors," presenting (movingly) the execution of St. John Fisher.

Legally Right? Yes. But Morally?

Posted on May 22, 2009
In my judgment, yes. Emphatically, yes! May 22, 2009 Wis. Mom Found Guilty of Letting Sick Daughter Die WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- A mother accused of praying instead of seeking medical help for her dying 11-year-old daughter was found guilty...

A Clash of Rights? Gay Marriage

Posted on May 21, 2009
A Clash of Rights? Gay Marriage and the Free Exercise of Religion Thursday, May 21, 2009 With New Hampshire considering legislation that would make it the sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage, could religious individuals and institutions that oppose gay...

American Public Opinion on Abortion

Posted on May 21, 2009
Here and here.

A reply to Rob on human dignity and the views of Anders Nygren

Posted on May 21, 2009
Thanks to Rob for his posting regarding the Lutheran bishop Anders Nygren?s work. Rob has asked the question regarding Nygren?s potential influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. I am not commenting on that influence because we do not have what...

The Continuing SSM / Religious Liberty Debate in New Hampshire

Posted on May 21, 2009
After the New Hampshire House narrowly refused yesterday to pass a same-sex marriage bill with reasonable religious-liberty protections demanded by Democratic governor John Lynch, there now appear to be negotiations to return to the issue. New Hampshire seems likely to...

Is this why human dignity arguments are so difficult today?

Posted on May 21, 2009
I am not a theologian, but I occasionally play one in my scholarship. As part of a project exploring the theological sources that shaped Martin Luther King, Jr.'s work (and the lessons King offers for our understanding of a lawyer's...

"Sola Scriptura and the Constitution"

Posted on May 20, 2009
Great post, and discussion, at Vox Nova. Check it out. Then, discuss.

Is there really an elephant -- or, at least, THAT elephant -- in the room?

Posted on May 20, 2009
Michael P. suggests that there is an "elephant in the room", and that is is captured with this question: The sixty-four-dollar question: Who is more unreasonable: (1) One who denies that Christians (and others) can in good faith reasonably reject...

A Second Elephant in the Room (it?s getting crowded in here)

Posted on May 20, 2009
A Michael P. rightly points out, we are deeply divided (even among Catholics) on the moral status of the unborn human. I should hasten to add that there are still a number of individuals who remain confused over the biological...

Obama at Notre Dame: The View from the Vatican

Posted on May 20, 2009
Or, at least, the view in Italian. An MOJ reader--Pasquale Annicchino, who is a Junior Fellow in the Law and Religion Programme, Siena, Italy, and also Editor in Chief of the Human Rights Review, University College, London--sent me a piece...

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