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Should the White House defend "Targeted Killings"

Posted on September 27, 2010
According to this report, "[t]he Obama administration sought Friday to block a lawsuit over the scope of its targeted killing program for suspected terrorists, in a case that challenges the government to define the limits of its global battlefield against...

School choice

Posted on September 27, 2010
We regularly discuss school choice on MoJ, and in the past we've noted the tendency of political leaders who oppose school choice to choose private schools for their own kids. This morning President Obama at least was candid about his...

Pulpit Freedom Sunday

Posted on September 27, 2010
Yesterday was Pulpit Freedom Sunday, the day designated to challenge IRS restrictions on political speech by churches. I'm guessing that the day went by unnoticed in most churches (especially Catholic churches), but Chuck Colson thinks that the time is right...

religion as a game show

Posted on September 27, 2010
In the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, (Dei Verbum), the fathers of the Second Vatican Council taught that "insight grows into what has been handed down" (no. 8) or, as another translation has it, "there is a growth in the...

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Zuckerberg's well-meaning mistake

Posted on September 27, 2010
On the "Oprah" show the other day, it was announced that Mark Zuckerberg (the founder of Facebook) is going to spend $100 million to try to improve -- in partnership with Mayor Cory Booker (D) and Gov. Chris Christie (R)...

Patriarchal religion, pornography, and woman-hating at Wake Forest

Posted on September 24, 2010
I just received a postcard today for a Wake Forest Law School symposium titled "Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender." The symposium happened last week and I have no direct knowledge of what transpired, but I have a good guess as...

Farr on religious freedom, foreign policy, and security

Posted on September 24, 2010
At Public Discourse, Tom Farr reminds us, again, of the importance of religious freedom -- here and abroad -- to stability, security, and peace: [T]he American experience teaches that religious liberty can be an effective way to engage religious actors...

USCCB Committee on Doctrine Statement on book by Salzman and Lawler

Posted on September 24, 2010
Here is a Zenit story on the USCCB's Commitee on Doctrine's recent statement critiquing a book ("The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology") by Todd Salzman and Michael Lawler. Here is a link to the Committee on Doctrine's statement.....

The Execution in Virginia

Posted on September 24, 2010
Here's a post, at America, about the execution by Virginia of Teresa Lewis. I note that Ms. Lewis was represented, at the end, by my former law-practice colleague (and Notre Dame graduate), Jim Rocap. In some of the commentary I've...

Religion and Reconciliation

Posted on September 23, 2010
My friend and colleague at Notre Dame, Dan Philpott, is involved in a new, worthy project: ?The idea of reconciliation has deep roots in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other faiths,? says Philpott, associate professor of political science and peace studies,...

Ah, "change"

Posted on September 23, 2010
David Mills, at First Things, calls our attention to this plea, in The Guardian, for "secularist change." Mills writes: By ?secularism,? he means a movement that ?seeks to defend the absolute freedom of religious and other belief, seeks to maximise...

Linker's proposed "religious test"

Posted on September 23, 2010
In the Washington Post, Damon Linker (author of "Theocons"), proposes a "religious test" for all political candidates: Instead of attempting the impossible task of abolishing faith from the political conversation, we need a new kind of religious test for our...

Life in the bubble

Posted on September 23, 2010
Since we regularly discuss the mission and function of Christian higher education on MoJ, readers might be interested in this reflection by Philip Yancey (one of my favorite writers) about his experience at bible college in the 1960s.

"A Commercial for Religious Freedom"?

Posted on September 23, 2010
Anne Applebaum writes, at Slate, that the "fuss over Pope Benedict's visit to Britain was a blessing for Catholicism." I might characterize the orgy of ignorance, bile, and hate in which many revelled as a bit more than a "fuss",...

Implications of the affirming the priority of the common good

Posted on September 23, 2010
I've long wanted to understand more deeply what was at issue when Jacques Maritain and Charles De Koninck famously disagreed about the nature of the common good (and the individual person's relation thereto). The recent translation, by Ralph McInerny, and...

Should Catholics support "Don't ask, Don't tell?"

Posted on September 22, 2010
My understanding is that the Catholic Church opposes employment discrimination against gays and lesbians unless there is some specific reason why sexual orientation is relevant to a particular position (e.g., priests, in the Church's view). If I'm mistaken as to...

A quick and short response to Rob

Posted on September 22, 2010
I would offer a quick response to Rob's hypothetical by offering these two points that should be taken into consideration when searching for the distinctions between religious faith and sexual orientation. The first consideration is the need to acknowledge that...

Elizabeth Scalia on "Why I Remain a Catholic"

Posted on September 21, 2010
A beautiful, honest, and very personal reflection on her relationship with the Church. "I remain within, and love, the Catholic Church because it is a church that has lived and wrestled within the mystery of the shadow lands ever since...

Steve Smith Responds

Posted on September 21, 2010
Steve Smith has responded to my posts here and here. His response was tucked away as a comment, but I thought I would reproduce it here. Here is what he says: "I thank Steve for his perceptive comments on my...

Douthat on the Pope's visit to the U.K.

Posted on September 20, 2010
He writes, in today's NYT: But in turning out for their beleaguered pope, Britain?s Catholics acknowledged something essential about their faith that many of the Vatican?s critics, secular and religious alike, persistently fail to understand. They weren?t there to voice...

Archbishop Dolan's plan for New York's Catholic schools

Posted on September 20, 2010
I linked, a few days ago, to Archbishop Dolan's wonderful essay in America on the importance of Catholic schools. Today, the NYT is reporting on the Archbishop's plan to "save" Catholic schools by moving away from the parish-school model (in...

Secular Discourse, Religious Discourse, and Steven Smith

Posted on September 20, 2010
Last week I highly recommended (here) Steve Smith?s new book, The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse. I do, however, have some significant disagreements. Smith believes that the problems he associates with secular discourse can be remedied by opening up our public...

An open thread on the Pope's visit to Great Britain

Posted on September 20, 2010
Pope Benedict has returned to Rome, after what seems to have been a successful visit to the land of St. Thomas More. More than a few of his statements, it appears, touched on matters of church-state relations, religious freedom, and...

Food for thought for bloggers and surfers

Posted on September 19, 2010
Alan Jacobs (Wheaton) writes, in "The Online State of Nature": [A]s we have come to focus our attention ever more on politics and the arts of public justice, we have increasingly defined our private, familial, and communal lives in similar...

Chaput, "Catholics in the Next America"

Posted on September 19, 2010
Archbishop Chaput has a worth-reading essay over at First Things, which provides a useful complement to the sometimes-too-quickly-accepted "Catholics finally made it in America after the election of Kennedy and Vatican II" narrative: . . . In the years since...

The Pope's mission to uphold human dignity

Posted on September 19, 2010
This letter appeared in The Guardian (HT: First Things): We welcome His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to the UK as both head of state of the Holy See and as leader of the world's 1 billion Catholics and to the...

Catholic Colleges 20 years after Ex Corde

Posted on September 19, 2010
David House has this essay, "Catholic Colleges 20 Years After 'Ex Corde'", in the Chronicle of Higher Education. He writes: Twenty years ago, Pope John Paul II issued Ex corde Ecclesiae (From the Heart of the Church), an Apostolic Constitution...

Burning the Koran as a Work of Art

Posted on September 18, 2010
Pastor Terry Jones' as yet unfulfilled proposal to burn the Koran (here) continues to ripple through the culture. Earlier this week there was Justice Breyer's comments that acts like Pastor Jones' burning of the Koran might not be constitutionally protected...

More great stuff from Walker Percy

Posted on September 17, 2010
Here's Walker Percy again, from an essay called "Why Are You Catholic?": "The reason I am a Catholic is that I believe that what the Catholic Church proposes is true." Works for me!

Bainbridge responds to Sen. Gregg regarding "social justice"

Posted on September 17, 2010
Here is former MOJ-er Prof. Bainbridge, responding to Sen. Gregg on the issue of promoting "social justice": What's wrong with promoting social justice? The Hill: "My concern is that she would use the agency for the purpose of promoting social...

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