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"Serving Two Masters"

Posted on November 02, 2010
Stanley Fish's recent column, "Serving Two Masters: Shariah Law and the Secular State", will be of interest to MOJ readers, I think. He considers, among other things, this question: ?How far can liberal democracy go, both in accommodating minority groups...

Paulsen on church-state "separation"

Posted on November 01, 2010
Responding to the kerfuffle the other day regarding the disagreement between Mr. Coons and Ms. O'Donnell regarding the constitutional status of church-state "separation", Michael Stokes Paulsen has this characteristically helpful essay. He writes, among other things, that: The correct understanding...

Real Clear Religion

Posted on November 01, 2010
For many, the "RealClearPolitics" website is a useful news aggregator (if not an addiction). There's now a "RealClearReligion" related site, and I think it's great. Warning: Do not go to the site if you are on deadline.

A beautiful reflection by a Notre Dame student

Posted on November 01, 2010
As MOJ readers probably know, a Notre Dame student died tragically in an accident last week. This reflection, by a fellow student, appeared in the student paper today and is, I think, beautiful. Sometimes, it seems that Notre Dame is...

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Welcome to Marc DeGirolami

Posted on November 01, 2010
I am delighted to welcome Marc DeGirolami (St. John's) to the Mirror of Justice crew. Marc is, as many MOJ readers and bloggers know, an engaging and gifted scholar of law-and-religion and crime-and-punishment matters. He has been a contributing blogger...

BYU conference on the impact of same-sex marriage on public education

Posted on November 01, 2010
I just returned from a conference at BYU on the impact of same-sex marriage on public education. See http://www.law2.byu.edu/organizations/marriage_family/ The conference was organized by my good friend Lynn Wardle and was sponsored by the Marriage and Family Law Research Project...

Hello, and a little review

Posted on November 01, 2010
Thanks very much to Rick and the other posters here for including me in your discussions. It is fair to say that I've long admired the writing of many of the blog's denizens (of all political stripes!), and I'm delighted...

Parsing a Backyard Chat ? Why Should Abortion Be ?Rare??

Posted on October 31, 2010
President Obama has, as we know, been campaigning hard to try and rouse support for Democratic candidates in the mid-term elections taking place this Tuesday. Last month, at a ?backyard? meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the President was asked why...

Not So Open Hearts and Minds: Another Take on the Princeton Conference

Posted on October 30, 2010
Over at The Catholic Thing Austin Ruse has a post on the recent conference on abortion that took place at Princeton. Rob, who was a participant, posted on the event here and here, and Rick posted this entry which included...

Bishops, Catholics, Cooperation, Citizenship, and More (?Thomas? or ?additional??)

Posted on October 30, 2010
Thanks to Steve, Rob, and Rick who have recently posted several contributions that address Catholics?clerical and lay?on the exercise of citizenship, the role of moral deliberation, and, last but not least, the upcoming mid-term election. I was planning on writing...

New dean named for Villanova Law

Posted on October 29, 2010
I am delighted to report that my colleague and friend, John Gotanda, has been named the sixth dean of Villanova Law. Fr. Peter Donohue, OSA, the President of Villanova University, made the announcement this afternoon, bringing to a happy conclusion...

Is conscious self-delusion possible in the long run?

Posted on October 29, 2010
A few days ago, Rick posted some thoughts taken from John Finnis at the Princeton conference on abortion. What stuck me were these words in particular: "The thing about moral status is, if you believe in morality at all, that...

From the "you're missing the point" department . . .

Posted on October 28, 2010
Today's Star-Tribune has an article about the DFL mailing depicting a priest nondenominational preacher wearing a collar, and Mark Dayton, the DFL candidate for governor, (kind of) condemns the mailing: "I believe the brochure's picture showing a man of the...

An Example LGBT Youth's Rational Fear of People of Faith

Posted on October 27, 2010
Clint McCance, a member of the Arkansas School Board, was reported in multiple media sources including the Huffington Post, to have posted the following to Facebook in response to recent calls for solidarity in preventing LGBT teen suicide... "Seriously they...

Angry with Abp. Nienstedt? Respond by offending all Catholics . . .

Posted on October 26, 2010
I have not yet received this campaign postcard from the Minnesota DFL party, but thanks to Grant Gallicho over at Commonweal for bringing it to my attention. In case you can't quite read it, the priest is wearing a button...

Catholic Social Thought and the Election

Posted on October 26, 2010
Here are two views: This, by my colleague, Don Kommers, at Huffington Post, and this, by R.R. Reno, at First Things. According to Kommers, "Catholics who take the social teachings of their church seriously will reject any candidate who would...

"Let Freedom Ring"

Posted on October 25, 2010
I recommend that all MOJ-ers take a few minutes to read Bishop William Lori's (Bridgeport) new pastoral letter, "Let Freedom Ring: A Pastoral Letter on Religious Freedom." I had the pleasure and privilege of spending some time with Bishop Lori...

Catholic Attrition and Cooperation with Evil

Posted on October 25, 2010
Last week I posted about those who have left the Catholic Church and discussed some of the data about the reasons they leave. Now Cathy Kaveny here and Peter Steinfels here have two excellent textured essays about Catholic attrition in...

Jean Porter's Ministers of the Law

Posted on October 24, 2010
This past Friday, Villanova Law hosted its ninth-annual Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Law, now named for Joseph T. McCullen. Past symposia went directly to topics in CST, but this year we decided to approach such topics by focusing...

MTV is pure evil. Discuss.

Posted on October 23, 2010
My mom used to tell me to turn off MTV because some of the Billy Idol videos were less than wholesome. I much preferred MTV when it trafficked in unwholesome fantasy than now, when it tries to shape teenagers' perceptions...

Composition, Place, and Intelligence

Posted on October 23, 2010
In my Natural Law and Natural Rights course, I rely on the repetitio of three points: that the human person is intelligent (intelligence); that the world and what it contains is intelligible (place); and that the combination of these two...

Reasons Why Catholics and Protestants Leave Their Churches

Posted on October 22, 2010
Why do Catholics leave the Church? Is the typical person who exits a long time member who has finally become fed up with the Church?s views on sex, women, reproduction etc? According a report by the Pew Forum (link to...

Church-State "separation" on Wisconsin Public Radio

Posted on October 22, 2010
The folks at Wisconsin Public Radio used the occasion of Ms. O'Donnell's remark about the "separation of church and state" to give over an hour to a discussion, with me (and some callers) about the subject. You can listen to...

Mainline Protestant and Catholic Losses in Membership Compared

Posted on October 21, 2010
On Monday I cross-posted on Mirror of Justice and Religiousleftlaw about those who have left the Catholic Church. Several of the comments at Mirror of Justice wondered or made assertions about the relationship between Catholic losses and mainline Protestant losses...

Where lies the ignorance?

Posted on October 20, 2010
At the following link a blogger attempts to ridicule a political actor for her not knowing where in the Constitution one can find "the separation of church and state." Whatever the politician's shortcomings (they are considerable, in my view) or...

Politics and Switching Religions

Posted on October 20, 2010
In American Grace at page 145, Putnam and Campbell remark that the U.S. pattern of religious switching suggests that ?people whose religious and political affiliations are ?inconsistent? as judged by today?s partisan alignments ? that is, liberal churchgoers and unchurched...

How many branches of U.S. government?

Posted on October 20, 2010
And now we're informed by that same columnist I mentioned yesterday that "the Supreme Court [of the United States] is an independent branch of government." I hope the folks reading the National Catholic Register aren't learning *all* their law from...

John Finnis on the moral status of the unborn child

Posted on October 20, 2010
As MOJ readers probably know, Rob, Lisa, and I -- along with many others with whom readers will be familiar (Cathy Kaveny, John Finnis, etc.) participated in a lively and well attended recent conference at Princeton, "Open Hearts, Open Minds,...

Open Hearts at Princeton

Posted on October 20, 2010
Commonweal has posted my short essay reflecting on last weekend's "Open Hearts, Open Minds" abortion conference at Princeton.

Ex-Catholics and Nominal Catholics

Posted on October 19, 2010
Tom Roberts has an interesting article in the National Catholic Reporter discussing Pew Forum data about those who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. It is well known that more persons have left the Catholic Church than any...

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