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Announcing the fifth-annual Scarpa Conference at Villanova Law

Posted on October 08, 2010
I am pleased to announce the fifth-annual John F. Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture. The focus of this year's Conference is a monumental new book, published in June by Yale University Press, A Republic of Statutes: The New...

Free Speech Assaulting Private Persons at Funerals: I Don't Think So

Posted on October 08, 2010
Oral argument was held day before yesterday in Snyder v. Phelps, the case in which demonstrators carried signs near a funeral of a Marine saying ?God Hates Fags? (Snyder was not gay, but Phelps thinks America is sinful for tolerating...

Who gets to be a feminist?

Posted on October 08, 2010
Slate has asked their favorite "lady luminaries" the provocative question, "Who gets to be a feminist?" You probably can guess where this is going, and Nora Ephron cuts right to it: "I know that I'm supposed to write 500 words...

The Church's political advocacy, public perception, and SSM

Posted on October 08, 2010
This cartoon (from today's Minneapolis Star-Tribune) reflects the enormous problem facing the Church's effort to stop the inclusion of same-sex couples within civil law marriage. Increasingly, it seems, the public perception is that discrimination = discrimination = discrimination...

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Banning the burqa

Posted on October 07, 2010
Speaking of conscience protection in Europe, a disappointing (but not surprising) development in France.

Do natural rights attach to humanoids?

Posted on October 07, 2010
Science is poised to pose some challenging questions for our understanding of the human person; Catholic legal theorists also need to begin thinking about what science means for our understanding of the legal rights that attach (or do not attach)...

The Reformer

Posted on October 07, 2010
Catholics might not be familiar with Al Mohler, but they should be. Here is a nice introduction to the man, his worldview, and why he's important to the direction of American Christianity.

Is the public square becoming more welcoming?

Posted on October 07, 2010
A new survey shows that believers and nonbelievers alike support religious expression by students in public schools.

Good news from Europe

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Council of Europe amended the proposed conscience resolution to include this key provision: [N]o person and no hospital or institution shall be coerced, held liable or discriminated against in any manner because of a refusal to perform, accommodate, assist...

Conscience protection in Europe

Posted on October 06, 2010
Matt Schmitz provides a helpful update on disturbing developments in Europe regarding conscience protection for health care providers. I have not yet read the proposed resolution to be considered this week by the Council of Europe, and I'm not sure...

Are we complicit?

Posted on October 05, 2010
It has been deeply disturbing to read media coverage of the bullying and suicide of at least six gay youths in the past few weeks. A colleague of mine in psychology assures me that this represents only a small percentage...

The Church gets "political" in Minnesota

Posted on October 05, 2010
Minnesota Catholics are buzzing (at least in my parish) about the DVD sent out by Abp. Nienstedt last week to all Catholic households in the state advocating for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. Aside from the ongoing debate about...

A promising stem-cell development?

Posted on October 05, 2010
The Washington Post is reporting: Scientists have invented an efficient way to produce apparently safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a long-sought step toward bypassing the moral morass surrounding one of the most promising fields in...

American plutonomy

Posted on October 05, 2010
Maybe the most persuasive argument against America's growing wealth disparity is not a moral one, but a practical one: extreme wealth disparity doesn't work well because concentrating spending power in the hands of a few is a recipe for economic...

Eternal law, natural law, and human law

Posted on October 05, 2010
I've posted a new chapter on the practical, including U.S. constitutional, consequences of taking seriously the Thomistic thesis that the natural law is our participation in the eternal law and is, therefore, a real law, one from which no rational...

"Never Let Me Go"

Posted on October 04, 2010
I loved the novel, "Never Let Me Go", by Kazuo Ishiguro. (More here and here.) And I am, I admit, completely (to use a technical term) stoked to learn that the book has been made into a movie. (Of course,...

Words of Wisdom from Pete Seeger

Posted on October 03, 2010
In today's NYT, here: "It?s a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with."

Are low taxes about moral desert (or freedom)?

Posted on October 01, 2010
Ned Resnikoff criticizes (what he perceives to be) a reliance by conservatives on moral desert for their tax-cutting arguments. Does the hard-working billionaire deserve more than the hard-working waitress? What about the billionaire who inherited all his money? Etc...

Censorship in Spain

Posted on October 01, 2010
The European Centre for Law and Justice (HT: Volokh) reports on the Spanish government punishing a company for airing a promotional advertisement in defense of the traditional family.

Media ordain female priests

Posted on October 01, 2010
Time Magazine has published an eyebrow-raising article about the Church's refusal to ordain women as priests (eyebrow-raising because of its one-sidedness, not because of the subject). Greg Kandra comments, as does Get Religion.

Where to begin...

Posted on October 01, 2010
I begin this posting by thanking Rob for his recent post of September 28 entitled ?Human Rights Campaign gets nasty.? His subject deals with the launching of a new campaign against the National Organization for Marriage. But that?s not the...

On "government schools"

Posted on September 30, 2010
A few days ago, in a post that took notice of the recently announced education-funding collaboration between a great mayor (Cory Booker), a great governor (Chris Christie), and a really smart, young, entrepreneur (Mark Zuckerberg), I used the term "government...

Herberg's review of Blanshard

Posted on September 30, 2010
Here (thanks to Francis Beckwith) is Will Herberg's 1949 review of Paul Blanshard's anti-Catholic (and hugely popular) screed, American Freedom and Catholic Power. An interesting (and strikingly timely) read: Mr. Blanshard's prejudices make it impossible for him to appreciate the...

Rowan Williams, Gay Bishops, and Pronouncing on Serious Moral Questions

Posted on September 28, 2010
I agree that Pope Benedict would have no difficulty answering the easy question for him and the Church leadership (not so easy for Anglicans) that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury ducked. But I hope that the Pope would not...

The Pope (and More) in Westminster Hall

Posted on September 28, 2010
I hope it is not too late to pass on this link to the Pope's September 17 address in Westminster Hall. His remarks might be of interest to lawyers, legal scholars, and law students, given that he shared them conscious...

Perry on the Florida gay adoption case

Posted on September 28, 2010
Michael Perry has posted a new paper based on his recent book. Here's an excerpt from the abstract: On September 22, 2010, Florida?s Third District Court of Appeal ? an intermediate appellate court ? affirmed a ruling by a Florida...

Human Rights Campaign gets nasty

Posted on September 28, 2010
Human Rights Campaign has launched a new website called "NOM Exposed" dedicated to uncovering the "truth, lies, and connections about the so-called National Organization for Marriage." I'm all in favor of providing the public with information about important political issues,...

For what will future generations condemn us?

Posted on September 28, 2010
Ask Kwame Anthony Appiah and Frank Pasquale. Feel free to weigh in. I wrote, in a comment to Frank's post, that "it was, for me, sad to note that industrial farming, and the cruelty-to-animals (that I agree) it involves, seemed...

"Nancy"

Posted on September 27, 2010
On Saturday evening I performed a set of songs by Leonard Cohen at a venue called Cafe Improv, at the Princeton Arts Council. I know that several MoJers are interested in Cohen's music. Here is the link to a video...

Martin Marty on declining church attendance

Posted on September 27, 2010
In yesterday's edition of Sightings, Martin Marty discusses the decline, in America and elsewhere, in church-attendance. He writes: Some readers may wonder why in columns like this, which are to be about ?public religion,? we talk about church and synagogue...

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