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"The Population Bomb"
Posted on November 21, 2010This, from Front Porch Republic: . . .Small is beautiful not because it purposefully stunts its growth, sterilizes itself, or controls itself with an obsessive and dominating rigor that would impose a little circle of stasis on nature and in...
Jesus Jo
Posted on November 20, 2010Seen at a Starbuck's this morning: a brand-new "Christmas Blend" right alongside a "Holiday Blend." The Christmas Blend bag was decorated with the right sort of colors and symbols, while the Holiday Blend had a pleasantly neutral white background accented...
Worst op-ed of the year
Posted on November 19, 2010There is an art to crafting good anti-Catholic commentary. I enjoy reading Christopher Hitchens, for example, because he's smart, writes well, and, beneath the bluster and hyperbole, many of his allegations need to be taken seriously. It seems, though, that...
Whom Would Jesus Offend? (Plenty of people.)
Posted on November 19, 2010Relying on various stories from the Gospels, Mark Galli offers some interesting observations about the limitations of using Jesus as the model for peacemaking discourse. In some of the stories, Jesus is clearly intending to humiliate the Pharisees, even though...
Anti-Catholicism from Catholics?
Posted on November 19, 2010I would like to follow up on Rob?s earlier post of today (Worst op-ed of the year) regarding anti-Catholic opinion publishing. It strikes me that one can find a type of anti-Catholicism or anti-Church attitude among some members of the...
Ministers of the Law
Posted on November 19, 2010I have now posted Lawmaking, Administration, and Traces of Civic Republicanism: Thoughts on Jean Porter's Ministers of the Law, a short paper I prepared for Villanova's recent Catholic Social Thought conference that was devoted to Porter's new book. I heartily...
On the Intellectual Origins of the Crime of Barratry
Posted on November 18, 2010I've just concluded a session in my Professional Responsibility class dealing with the selling of legal services by non-lawyers and their solicitation of legal business. In this particular section of the excellent book by Stephen Gillers, there is a brief...
Orsi on modernity and Catholicism
Posted on November 18, 2010Over at The Immanent Frame, a number of scholars were asked to reflect on the question -- occasioned by the launch of a new research project at Notre Dame called "Contending Modernities: Catholic, Muslim, Secular": What is gained by framing...
Adventures in labeling
Posted on November 18, 2010Get Religion tries to make sense of the labels being thrown around to describe the election of Archbishop Timothy Dolan as president of the USCCB.
Deneen on Linker's proposed "religious test"
Posted on November 18, 2010Damon ("Theocracy!") Linker has a new book out, called The Religious Test. (Here is an interview with Linker, from the Economist.) Patrick Deneen shares some not-in-the-usual-categories thoughts about the book, here. He concludes: Linker?s story is finally informed by its...
Hiring-for-mission and discrimination, again
Posted on November 17, 2010"Religious hiring by faith-based institutions is not illegal job discrimination," argues the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance. And, they are right. Joseph Knippenberg has an excellent post on the issue, here, in which he takes issue with this piece, written by...
Catholic Legal Theory and the Curious Case of California and Texas
Posted on November 17, 2010This article in Forbes highlights the declining fortunes of the people of California and the rising fortunes of the people of Texas. Both states are far from perfect, but I wonder, from the perspective of a Catholic concerned about social...
Another thought on Saletan's advice
Posted on November 17, 2010As Rob mentioned (below), Slate's Will Saletan wrote up some "advice" for those of us who are pro-life, prompted by his attendance at the recent Princeton conference (in which Lisa, Rob, and I participated . . . though, according to...
"In Defense of Culture" by Patrick Deneen
Posted on November 17, 2010If you haven't seen this essay/lecture by Prof. Deneen on Front Porch Republic, it is worth the read. Here is one paragraph: The political philosophy as a whole that has effected this destruction of culture is the dominant school of...
Will Saletan's "advice" to pro-lifers
Posted on November 16, 2010One needn't share an advocate's views to admire his savviness and effectiveness in advocating them. One of the shrewdest advocates I know is Will Saletan of Slate. Folks who are familiar with Will's writings know that he is a dedicated...
Saletan on "Open Hearts" conference
Posted on November 16, 2010At Slate, William Saletan offers his reaction to the Princeton abortion conference, including a list of five lessons for pro-lifers. (His lessons for pro-choicers will be posted tomorrow.)
Torture, waterboarding, and the culture: A response to Rob
Posted on November 16, 2010A few thoughts in response to Rob's recent post, regarding President Bush's candid acknowledgment that he authorized the waterboarding of several terrorists-detainees: First, and simply to restate what any regular reader of MOJ already knows, I agree with Rob that...
Social justice at Marquette
Posted on November 15, 2010Over the weekend I participated in some fascinating conversations at Marquette as part of a conference on social justice organized by Christopher Wolfe. With folks like Jean Bethke Elshtain, Nicholas Wolterstorff, and John Finnis in the lineup, I (wisely) did...
Waldron on Religious Argument in Politics
Posted on November 15, 2010Thanks to Paul Horwitz for flagging this new paper from Jeremy Waldron, Two-Way Translation: The Ethics of Engaging with Religious Contributions in Public Deliberations. The arguments may not be new, but it's nice to see someone like Waldron lend his...
The Rights of Christians in the Middle East
Posted on November 14, 2010A propos of John's very good post below, here is a little summary of a roundtable discussion that our Center for Law and Religion, under the guidance of my colleague and friend, Mark Movsesian, organized dealing with the subject of...
Judicial "Greatness" and Judicial Duty
Posted on November 14, 2010In light of Rick's thoughtful post a few days ago about Justice Scalia's views on the judicial role, I was interested to read this piece by Noah Feldman over at Slate. The legal commentary at Slate is always good, clean...
Quote of the day
Posted on November 12, 2010I love this quote from the late lefty Dominican Herbert McCabe, profiled in the current Commonweal. He advocated socialism, he wrote, "not because I am a Catholic but because I am a socialist." We I may tend to overemphasize the...
Catholic Legal Theory and the Middle East
Posted on November 12, 2010This past Tuesday evening I had the great pleasure of taking part in a dinner celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Arab American Bar Association of Illinois. I am a founding member of this organization and currently serve as its...
Chesterton on Juries
Posted on November 12, 2010"Almost 80 years ago, G. K. Chesterton, the English essayist, observed the following about a jury: Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted...
"Abortion Law is Family Law"
Posted on November 12, 2010So argues Helen Alvare, in this piece, published at Public Discourse. (The piece is adapted from her remarks at the recent "Open Hearts" conference at Princeton.) Here's a bit: Questions about ?abortion and the law? are usually seen as matters...
More Flannery
Posted on November 12, 2010?Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic...
"Damn right"
Posted on November 11, 2010There are many things wrong with the values reflected in American political culture and yes, some of those wrongs have become even further entrenched under President Obama. But for whatever else he accomplished that was good, President Bush's legacy will...
The Smoldering Core of the Criminal Law
Posted on November 11, 2010It has been a couple of days since a jury decided on the death penalty for one of the two men who invaded the home of a Connecticut family, tortured and brutalized them, raped the mother and daughters, and slaughtered...
More Flannery
Posted on November 11, 2010?To see Christ as God and man is probably no more difficult today than it has always been, even if today there seem to be more reasons to doubt. For you it is a matter of not being able to...
A new tactic in the abortion debate?
Posted on November 10, 2010Having someone run for office in order to get a graphic anti-abortion ad on the air has sparked some controversy. (My own view is that, provided that the ads are run at times when children are not likely to be...
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Is there a time limit where someone can't be convicted of a sexual crime after the child has told someone?
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I am no lawer by any means, so I would love for someone to verify what I have to...
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