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A conference of interest: "Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought"

Posted on January 11, 2011
A friend passes on this notice, which might be of interest: I am writing to invite you to attend ?Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought?--a conference hosted by Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, February 17-19, 2011. Long a cornerstone...

Great news from Chicago!

Posted on January 11, 2011
My friend T.J. D'Agostino, who does great work with Notre Dame's "Alliance for Catholic Education" project, reports some really good news out of Chicago: The largest Catholic school system in the U.S., the Archdiocese of Chicago, can now boast enrollment...

G.E. M. Anscombe (!!!) in the NYT

Posted on January 11, 2011
MOJ-ers might be interested in this interesting profile, which appeared in a recent issue of the NYT, of G.E.M. Anscombe and her work. I'm not an expert, of course, by my sense is that the author, Mark Oppenheimer, did a...

Choosing Life in Difficult Circumstances

Posted on January 10, 2011
This isn't Catholic Legal Theory, either, but it's important to those to whom it might be relevant. I just received a notice from a friend (Amy Kuebelbeck) about a forthcoming book which she co-edited: A Gift of Time: Continuing Your...

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Not Catholic Legal Theory Department

Posted on January 10, 2011
So there I was on an airplane, organizing my things on an extremely packed flight right before takeoff, when what should pass down the aisle but a woman walking (or maybe being led by) a small canine -- one of...

Kaczor on "The Ethics of Abortion"

Posted on January 10, 2011
This new book will be of interest to many MOJ readers: Appealing to reason rather than religious belief, this book is the most comprehensive case against the choice of abortion yet published. The Ethics of Abortion critically evaluates all the...

Richard Stith on "Happy Holidays"

Posted on January 10, 2011
MOJ-friend Prof. Richard Stith was kind enough to share with me this short essay, called How "Happy Holidays" Hurts: Good people are often mystified at the offense taken by many Christians to the salutation ?Happy Holidays!? After all, they reason,...

Human dignity and personal dignity

Posted on January 07, 2011
I haven't spent a whole lot of time this holiday season thinking about human dignity (unless you count the affront to a parent's dignity that accompanies spending $21 for their child's meal at Disney World). I did, however, just read...

Little isn't always better

Posted on January 06, 2011
A recent article in the NYT discussing the tarnishing of the "halo" around microlending in developing countries could almost be any recent article decrying the dangers of the consumer debt explosion here in the U.S.: Done right, these loans have...

Catholic Reality T.V.?

Posted on January 06, 2011
I spent a lot of time in hotels while travelling over the holidays, and watched much more t.v. than I typically do, including some strangely compelling reality shows, like Hoarders and Billy the Exterminator. I just read about an new...

Marriage and Dependence

Posted on January 05, 2011
And is it not the bitterer to think That, disengage our hands and thou wilt sink Although thy love was love in every deed? Last night I had one more little thought about Judge Reinhardt's explanation for his decision not...

Catholic �, Catholic �, Catholic ?

Posted on January 05, 2011
A few weeks ago our friend and colleague, Richard Myers, posted on the subject of recent developments in the St. Joseph Hospital (Phoenix) abortion case. [here] As we know from Richard and other sources, Bishop Olmstead of Phoenix has, under...

Well said by Ross Douthat

Posted on January 04, 2011
Here: "This is the paradox of America?s unborn. No life is so desperately sought after, so hungrily desired, so carefully nurtured. And yet no life is so legally unprotected, and so frequently destroyed."

Recusal and the Bonds of Marriage

Posted on January 04, 2011
One of the reasons I am enjoying the judicial recusal debates is that, in their technical way, they unexpectedly touch on various deep questions. One of those is the nature of marriage today. Readers may be interested to look over...

The "Central Question" about Marriage

Posted on January 03, 2011
Here, at Public Discourse, is the latest (I think!) installment in the ongoing conversation between George, Anderson, and Girgis (on the one hand) and their interlocutors / critics (on the other) about the meaning of marriage, and the implications of...

"Christianity and Human Rights"

Posted on January 03, 2011
John Witte and Frank Alexander are the editors of (yet another!) helpful and interesting collection of essays -- this one, just out from Cambridge University Press, is on "Christianity and Human Rights." (I contributed a chapter on religious liberty and...

"Popes, Atheists, and Freedom"

Posted on January 03, 2011
"Secularists should recognize that the Pope's fight is their fight," says Daniel Henninger in this op-ed. He's right, I think. A taste: For some, the Vatican's efforts on behalf of Christian minorities in Islamic countries or among China's population of...

Stanley Fish on "True Grit"

Posted on January 03, 2011
The remake of the great John Wayne film, "True Grit", has been getting a lot of positive buzz. I liked this review essay, by Stanley Fish, "Narrative and the Grace of God": The new ?True Grit? is that rare thing...

Pope Benedict emphasizes importance of religious freedom

Posted on January 03, 2011
This, from ZENIT: Pontiff Stresses Urgent Need for Religious Freedom Decries Extremes of Secularism, Fundamentalism VATICAN CITY, JAN. 1, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI is stressing the need for religious freedom throughout the world as the way of building peace...

On Literary and Scholarly Criticism

Posted on January 02, 2011
The Times Book Review today features several reflections on literary criticism. The piece by Katie Roiphe -- author of a mordant item of criticism some time back on the...limpness of contemporary fiction by male writers -- makes the elegant point...

The Catholic Legal Educator

Posted on December 31, 2010
Teachers for All Seasons?Lord, give me a sign (Matthew 28:16-20) On the Vigil of the Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God to whom our web site project is dedicated, I would like to offer the third...

AALS and Lumen Christi Next Week, and Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2010
For those MOJ denizens who will be in San Francisco next week, I hope we'll have a chance to meet up and toast the new year with a little of Walker Percy's bourbon (see the very good comment and link...

Essays

Posted on December 29, 2010
I like essays -- writing and reading them. In law, the essay is kind of a hybrid creature and a still-emerging stylistic form. The essay is missing some of the stolidly self-conscious seriousness of the article but it's so much...

Help Needed!

Posted on December 28, 2010
My feeble brain is tired as we prepare to close out the year, and I need your help with two issues from the lame duck Congress. First, Congress recently extended the Bush tax cuts for everyone including the highest earning...

Smith on Government Speech: Neutrality vs. Institutional Capture

Posted on December 27, 2010
Rick mentioned this article by Steve Smith some time ago, but since I'm always behind in my reading, I only got to it yesterday. I wanted in this post to note again that the piece is a worthwhile read and...

The Legal Academy and the Vineyard

Posted on December 27, 2010
Growth in discipleship: Can a seed (of teachers) grow in the legal academy??the harvest is great but the laborers are few (Matthew 20:1-16) The other day I posted the first in a short series about discipleship in the legal academy....

The Incarnation

Posted on December 27, 2010
The earthiness of Catholicism -- its willingness to see (indeed, its insistence on seing) tangible things, stuff, and places (relics, rocks, images, paths) as vehicles for the impartation of grace and the movement towards God -- has long been, and...

Something to Think About on Christmas

Posted on December 25, 2010
From Protestant Theologian Dorothee Solle Compare him calmly with other great figures Socrates Rosa Luxemburg Gandhi He can stand that But it is better For you to compare him With yourself Quoted in Hans Kung, What I Believe 142

Notes on Screwtape: Past, Present, and Future

Posted on December 24, 2010
From the fifteenth letter: Our business is to get them away from the Eternal, and from the Present. With this in view, we sometimes tempt a human (say a widow or a scholar) to live in the Past. But this...

The Great Discipleship of Teaching

Posted on December 24, 2010
The call to discipleship?on the Way to Emmaus (Luke 24:1-35) For many, Christmastide and the end of the calendar year provide an opportunity for many individuals to reflect upon one?s life, livelihood, and vocation. For the Catholic Christian, this reflection...

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