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Book Notice: "A Just and True Love"
Posted on February 26, 2009The periodical Theological Studies is published by Theological Studies, Inc., for the Society of Jesus in the United States. In the March 2009 issue (Vol. 70, No. 1), there is a review (at pp. 231-33) of this new book:A Just...
Just Love, the Dialogue
Posted on February 26, 2009Thanks Michael P. for citing to a review of a book of essays on Margaret Farley's book "Just Love," It reminds me that I am very much looking forward to our dialogue (blog symposium) on Margaret Farley's book this summer.
Civil partnerships as caregiving relationships
Posted on February 25, 2009A reader responds to my post on SSM, suggesting that we: construct laws and confer benefits that encourage folks to care for one another: let me carry my brother on my health insurance and put him up in my house,...
Civil unions vs. marriage: the European experience
Posted on February 25, 2009Aidan O'Neill writes to add a European perspective to our conversation on the treatment of same-sex couples (I've edited his remarks for length): First the Girgis/Anderson/George proposal is nothing new. It has been adopted in France with their regime known...
"Silence"
Posted on February 25, 2009Great news! One of (I think) the best novels of the 20th Century -- "Silence", by Shusaku Endo -- is being made (by Scorcese!) into a movie (starring, inter alia, Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro, two of the best...
House Dems trying to kill DC vouchers
Posted on February 25, 2009Disgusting. This is change, I suppose; change that kills hope. Disgusting. Even the Washington Post sees this for the shameful act that it is. Let's hope the Senate steps up. UPDATE: Rep. Joe Donnelly (D), my Catholic, Democrat representative, voted....
Ash Wednesday
Posted on February 25, 2009I wish all of you a blessed and fruitful Lent. I have been particularly struck by this phrase in today's second reading (from 2:Cor 5:20-6:2). "[I]n him [Jesus] we might become the very holiness of God." May it be so!
"What's not to like?" Responses to Rob
Posted on February 24, 2009Rob asks, with respect to the Rauch / Blankenhorn proposal on SSM, "what's not to like?" Over at Prawfsblawg, there are some interesting responses in the "comments" box. And, at Public Discourse, Ryan Anderson and Sherif Girgas weigh in. and...
In Praise of Disgust
Posted on February 24, 2009Regular MOJ reader Marc DeGirolami (who also attended the Scarpa Conference) has the following contribution in response my recent post regarding Professor Nussbaum's and Professor Stone's remarks regarding same-sex marriage: I noticed your comment about Professor Nussbaum's comment, late in...
Grasping the "Holy Grail"
Posted on February 24, 2009The Washington Post reports that technology is being developed that allows genetic testing for Down Syndrome to occur earlier in pregnancy and with more accuracy. Two contrasing perspectives in the article: "For 50 years, folks have been working to develop...
Are same-sex partners more like elderly sisters or heterosexual spouses?
Posted on February 24, 2009I appreciate Ryan Anderson and Sherif Girgis's thoughtful response to the Rauch/Blankenhorn proposal, but I confess that I still have a hard time figuring out why we should treat a same-sex couple more like a pair of elderly sisters than...
Jurisprudence of Marriage Symposium
Posted on February 24, 2009On Friday, March 13, Brigham Young University and Boston College (through their respective law schools) will host a one day symposium on the Jurisprudence of Marriage. The symposium will be convened at the Newton Campus of Boston College where the...
Summer Institute of Catholic Social Thought
Posted on February 23, 2009This might be of interest to readers.
New York Times on Dolan. Ugh.
Posted on February 23, 2009"A Genial Enforcer of Rome?s Conservative Line." Sigh. Who writes this stuff?
More on religion and lawmaking
Posted on February 23, 2009Just to continue the conversation (see recent posts by Steve S., Michael P., Rick G., Fr. Araujo, and Richard S.): I take it that everyone agrees that a just government should not -- and that, in particular, our Constitution would...
Martha Nussbaum, the Scarpa Conference, and Disgust
Posted on February 23, 2009Steve Shiffrin provided a nice summary of the Scarpa Conference that took place last Thursday at the Villanova Law School. (It was great to see Steve together with a number of other fellow MOJers such as Michael Scaperlanda and Rick...
Government as Theologian
Posted on February 23, 2009Rick says, ?Is the rule simply that "the government may never say, 'we are doing this because a particular religious authority has commanded it'?" If so, fine. Whatever the Establishment Clause means, really, I'm happy to go along with the...
A workable compromise on SSM/civil unions?
Posted on February 22, 2009SSM opponent David Blankenhorn and SSM supporter Jonathan Rauch have co-authored a New York Times op-ed laying out a culture war "compromise." They propose:: Congress would bestow the status of federal civil unions on same-sex marriages and civil unions granted...
Following up on Rick's question for Steve, about excluding religion
Posted on February 20, 2009Indeed, to exclude religious purposes may inevitably be to exclude far more than religious purposes, because some folks (like Geoff Stone, also at the Villanova conference) tend to see anything metaphysical, or just anything weird, or just anything they don't...
A question for Steve
Posted on February 20, 2009It was great to see Steve Shiffrin (and many other MOJers) at Villanova. I appreciate Steve's report from the Scarpa conference, and will soon be posting some reactions of my own. For now, just a quick question: Steve says that...
The Villanova Conference
Posted on February 20, 2009I survived the trip down to Villanova (the trip through the Poconos was an adventure) and back (though I had to leave the conference early to beat the weather). The conference was a great success. Martha Nussbaum gave an eloquent...
Religion as a Basis of Lawmaking?
Posted on February 20, 2009I am in substantial agreement with Steve Shiffrin's position on this issue. I present and defend my position here:http://ssrn.com/abstract=105772Kent Greenawalt defends essentially the same position in his recent book on the establishment clause.If anyone thinks that my argument misfires, I'd...
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