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"Family-First Conservatism"

Posted on October 19, 2010
Joe Carter posted, at First Things, this "tentative manifesto" a few weeks ago. (Aside: "tentative" and "manifesto" don't seem to me to go together very well.) After noting all the different versions and variations of "conservatism", he sets things up...

Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit

Posted on October 18, 2010
Nina J. Crimm (St. John's University School of Law) and Laurence H. Winer (Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University) have just published Politics, Taxes, and the Pulpit: Provocative First Amendment Conflicts (OUP 2011). I'll let some...

Reid on Christianity and ideology: a case study

Posted on October 18, 2010
My colleague, Charles Reid, gave a talk last week to a gathering at our school exploring the question of Christianity and ideology, using the story of Hypatia as a case study. I thought it might be of interest to MoJ...

An exchange on what it means to be a Christian

Posted on October 17, 2010
Recently, my Princeton colleague Cornel West and I engaged each other in a public conversation entitled "In the World But Not Of the World: What It Means to be a Christian Today." For anyone interested, here is a link to...

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Stanley Cavell's Autobiography

Posted on October 16, 2010
The Chronicle of Higher Education contains a review of Stanley Cavell's autobiography, Little Did I Know. For those unfamiliar with Cavell's work, he has been an influential reader of Wittgenstein for Catholic analytic philosophers. Fergus Kerr, for example, in the...

Thanks to Susan and Patrick

Posted on October 16, 2010
I would like to thank Patrick and Susan as the inspiration for this posting?Patrick for his earlier posting ?Governing in the Church?one among many reasons for libertas ecclesiae? and Susan for hers ?What Role for Theologians.? While they both may...

What Role for Theologians

Posted on October 15, 2010
Given the recent posts on issues relating to the Church position on homosexuality, an NCR commentary written by Regina Schulte, a theologian and the wife of the late James Schulte, coauthor of Human Sexuality: New Directions in American Catholic Thought,...

Open Hearts and Open Minds at Princeton

Posted on October 14, 2010
Tomorrow and Saturday, Princeton is hosting a conference on abortion titled, "Open Hearts, Open Minds, and Fair-Minded Words: A Conference on Life and Choice in the Abortion Debate." I'll be participating, along with MoJers Rick Garnett and Lisa Schiltz...

Liberty's Refuge

Posted on October 14, 2010
I highly recommend John Inazu's forthcoming book, Liberty's Refuge: The Forgotten Freedom of Assembly. For those who can't wait for the book, John has generously posted the introduction. It is a wonderful contribution to our understanding of the foundational issues...

Governing in the Church -- one among many reasons for libertas ecclesiae

Posted on October 14, 2010
Fr. Bramwell has an outstanding piece over at The Catholic Thing on that work of the pastors of the Church that is rarely named today, viz., governing. True governing, as Bramwell observes, is a form of service, the service of...

Sticking together

Posted on October 13, 2010
The amazing story of the Chilean miners is a powerful reminder of, among other things, the social nature of the human person, though that nature is too often concealed by the isolation of modern life. I don't think it takes...

Second Annual John Courtney Murray Lecture

Posted on October 13, 2010
For those of you who may be in or near Chicago next Thursday, October 21, you may be interested in the following: Second Annual John Courtney Murray, S.J., University Chair Lecture by Rev. Robert John Araujo, S.J., Loyola's John Courtney...

More on Phelps and free speech

Posted on October 13, 2010
Following up on Steve S.'s post, from a few days ago, on the Phelps case: Here is an essay by Hadley Arkes, posted at "Public Discourse", on the same case. Arkes writes, among other things: . . . The Chaplinsky...

Grading School Choice

Posted on October 12, 2010
Ross Douthat comments, in this piece, about the must-see movie, "Waiting for Superman" and also about the much-commented-upon essay by Frederick Hess, "Does School Choice 'Work'". Check it out. I am, I confess, a big fan of choice-in-education. (Ed.: No...

Religious freedom as "the signature issue"

Posted on October 12, 2010
John Allen reports, in NCR, that religious freedom has emerged as "the signature issue" for the Synod of Bishops of the Middle East: It?s only day one of the Oct. 10-24 Synod of Bishops for the Middle East, but already...

More on Smith and religious liberty

Posted on October 12, 2010
I appreciated the article to which Michael linked the other day, about the Smith case and its implications for religious liberty. Obviously, I'm a fan of religious freedom, and appreciate fully the importance of an accommodations-regime to the health of...

"Selective curiosity" regarding sexual abuse by clergy

Posted on October 12, 2010
This piece , "Our Selective Curiosity on Sex Scandals", appeared recently in the Denver Post: Is the Baptist ministry prone to sexual abuse against minors? Just wondering. After all, four young men have accused Baptist megachurch leader Bishop Eddie Long...

Arkes on "Evidence"

Posted on October 12, 2010
Hadley Arkes has an interesting essay, at "The Catholic Thing", called "On Evidence." A bit: . . .That eminent lawyer, Robert Bork, once remarked with his lawyer?s eye that the critical point was whether Jesus died and yet came back...

Doerflinger receives Notre Dame Fund's first Evangelium Vitae medal

Posted on October 12, 2010
Congratulations to Richard Doerflinger: Richard Doerflinger, associate director of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Secretariat for Pro Life Activities, will receive the University of Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life Evangelium Vitae Medal...

Against the wall, Sen. Murray clings to abortion rights

Posted on October 12, 2010
Both sides do this, obviously. While those of us who work and aspire to think and vote in accord with the ideals of Faithful Citizenship might wish that the lines dividing our two major parties were in a different place,...

Conservatives and climate change

Posted on October 12, 2010
In the New Republic, Bill McKibben wonders why Republicans have become so uniformly resolute over the past few years in their opposition to the conclusions of scientists regarding climate change. (Only 1 in 10 believes that climate change is a...

The Tolerance Disconnect

Posted on October 12, 2010
Elizabeth Scalia takes the anti-bullying conversation in an interesting (and, in my view, helpful) direction: I wonder if [the Church's] bishops and religious leaders will, for example, have to acknowledge with loving support the numerous celibate homosexual priests who, throughout...

Another great conference at Villanova

Posted on October 11, 2010
Our friends at Villanova are hosting (yet) another great conference, on Oct. 22, 2010. The Annual Joseph T. McCullen Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and the Law will explore issues and questions raised in and by Jean Porter's new book,...

The Legacy of Employment Division v. Smith

Posted on October 11, 2010
My OU colleague, Allen Hertzke, has an important and insightful article, "The Supreme Court and Religious Liberty: How a 1990 decision has come back to haunt us, and how its damage might be undone," in the most recent Weekly Standard....

Paladino on gay pride

Posted on October 11, 2010
Given our recent conversations on MoJ, I took an interest in a speech over the weekend by Carl Paladino, the GOP candidate for governor of New York. His prepared remarks included a couple of eyebrow-raising assertions, including: "there is nothing...

First annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize

Posted on October 11, 2010
Since a number of MoJ contributors and readers write in the field of legal ethics, you might be interested in this call for papers from MoJ-friend Sam Levine: Submissions and nominations of articles are now being accepted for the first...

Thank you, Rob

Posted on October 10, 2010
Thank you, Rob, for your clarification. I am sincerely grateful to you. You make an interesting and important statement regarding the role of the media when you say, "the only mention of the Church's advocacy during that news cycle focused...

Response to Fr. Araujo

Posted on October 10, 2010
Just a quick response to Fr. Araujo: First, my post did not make this clear enough, but I do not believe that the difference between Fred Phelps' rhetoric and opposition to SSM is simply a matter of degree; I was...

The Church?s public role and responsibility

Posted on October 09, 2010
I thank Rob for his post on the Twin Cities church?s efforts in the ongoing marriage debate and the perception of some who choose to respond to the Church and her teachings in a particular way such as that depicted...

The First Amendment, Religion, and the Public Schools

Posted on October 08, 2010
On Wednesday, I discussed the First Amendment, Religion, and the Public Schools on WILL an Illinois public radio station (covering southern Illinois including Chicago and parts of Indiana). To find a link to the interview, go to the Cornell Law...

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