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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...

Benedict at Westminster

Posted on September 17, 2010
Earlier today, the Holy Father met with British politicians, academics, business leaders, and members of the diplomatic corps at Westminster Hall?the site of the trial of St. Thomas More, the patron of those in political and state life. His address...

The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse I

Posted on September 16, 2010
I recently finished Steve Smith's new book, The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse (Harvard University Press 2010). The book argues that our secular discourse is insufficiently rich and that it lacks authenticity. He maintains that the purported bases for decisions rely...

Benedict en route to the UK

Posted on September 16, 2010
A transcript of the Holy Father's press conference on the plane earlier today is already available here. It contains the Pope's most decisive language yet on the failures of Church officials to stop the abuse and on the priority of...

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Religious Legal Theory conference at St. John's

Posted on September 16, 2010
The schedule is up, and it looks great! Congrats to the folks at St. John's' Center for Law and Religion for putting together a great event.

Some vintage Walker Percy

Posted on September 16, 2010
A friend sent me this, from Percy's The Second Coming: As unacceptable as believers are, unbelievers are even worse, not because of the unacceptability of unbelief but because of the nature of unbelievers themselves who in the profession and practice...

Red Mass in Norman, Oklahoma at 5pm on Sept. 19

Posted on September 15, 2010
The 31s annual Red Mass at OU will take place at St. Thomas More parish this Sunday at the 5pm mass. Our own Susan Stabile will give her reflections on the day's scripture readings and how they speak to law...

Narcissism at Mass? Could it be?

Posted on September 15, 2010
Back in early August, I raised some questions (here, here, and here) concerning what bad theology of the Mass and made-up liturgies mean for Catholic thought about the state, civil society, the work of being human, and so forth. Today...

Esbeck on the Establishment Clause

Posted on September 15, 2010
This paper, by church-state scholar Carl Esbeck, will likely be of interest to many readers: Uses and Abuses of Textualism and Originalism in Establishment Clause Interpretation Carl H. Esbeck University of Missouri School of Law Utah Law Review, Vol...

"Get Low"

Posted on September 15, 2010
A number of folks (for example) around the blogosphere are suggesting that"Get Low" -- the new-ish film starring Robert Duvall (and I would pay to see a movie that involved nothing more than Duvall mowing his lawn) -- is a...

Fresh anti-Benedict screeds from Hitchens and Cornwell

Posted on September 15, 2010
Here is Hitchens, in Slate, and here is John Cornwell, in the Financial Times, sharing their views in advance of the Pope's visit to the United Kingdom. (Hitchens thinks that the Pope should be arrested and prosecuted, and Cornwell thinks...

What should judicial accountability look like?

Posted on September 14, 2010
The same-sex marriage controversy in Iowa has spilled into the judicial retention system, where there is an active campaign to remove the supreme court justices who voted to strike down the state statute limiting marriage to a man and a...

School Vouchers for Kids with Special Needs

Posted on September 14, 2010
I wasn't aware of this development in special education, analyzed in this article by Wendy Hensel: Vouchers for Students with Disabilities: The Future of Special Education? Abstract: Many voices over the last decade have called for reform in special education...

The Neuhaus Colloquium on the "Treatment of Human Embryos"

Posted on September 13, 2010
The Witherspoon Institute's Neuhaus Colloquium has made available online the executive summary of its recently released statement, "The Obama Administration and the Treatment of Human Embryos" (here). A bit: . . . Shall we limit our ambitions, even at a...

Perry on Rights, Constitutions, and Courts

Posted on September 13, 2010
Here is a link to a recent paper of Michael's, "Rights, Constitutions, Courts": 1. Why entrench certain rights - certain rights of the sort we today call human rights - in a constitution, rather than solely in legislation? 2. We...

Where the danger actually lies

Posted on September 13, 2010
Robby George invites us to ask where the danger actually lies when candidates for jobs in the legal academy reveal (or not) what they hold as true. I'll answer (and I know it's only a partial answer) with a true...

Fifty years later...

Posted on September 12, 2010
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Senator John F. Kennedy?s address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association. I have commented on this speech before, but this is the first and last time I?ll have the opportunity to offer several observations...

Where does the danger actually lie?

Posted on September 12, 2010
I'm out of the country at the moment with rather spotty internet access, but I was able to check in at MoJ today and found Patrick Brennan's post about Carlos Ball's accusations of discrimination against him in hiring at Villanova....

Pastor Terry Jones and President Obama

Posted on September 11, 2010
Charles Lane in the Washington Post argues that President Obama should not have put pressure on Pastor Jones to terminate his plans to burn copies of the Koran. Obama's worry is that a bonfire of this character would trigger Muslim...

Reflecting on the Sabbath

Posted on September 10, 2010
The Christian Century has a review of a new book by Judith Shulevitz entitled The Sabbath World: Glimpses of a Different Order of Time. The author is ambivalent about the Sabbath. The review describes the book as a "wide-ranging investigation...

Law and Neuroscience

Posted on September 10, 2010
Andrea Lavazzo has posted an interesting comment on the Neuroethics and Law blog. Using the Terri Shiavo case as an example, Lavazzo argues that there is no evolutionary basis for the conflicting moral intuitions at issue in the case. Here...

Catholic Higher Education: An Update on St. Gregory's University

Posted on September 10, 2010
St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma recently added two new board members: F. Russell Hittinger, Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa and W. Perry Hodgden, Associate Director of Investments at Oppenheimer...

"The Catholic Schools We Need"

Posted on September 10, 2010
Archbishop Timothy Dolan has an outstanding piece in America, called "The Catholic Schools We Need." A taste: In the 20th century, for example, there was no greater witness to the effectiveness of Catholic schools than the Nazi and Communist efforts....

Macedo on Public Reason

Posted on September 09, 2010
Stephen Macedo has posted his new paper, Why Public Reason? The abstract: Some have recently argued that the ideal of public reason not only accords insufficient respect or freedom to some citizens, including some religious citizens, but in addition, it...

On the Mosque, the Exorcist, the Pope, and other (First) things

Posted on September 09, 2010
I just received my copy of the October 2010 issue of First Things. Lots of good stuff within: I think that Jody Bottum does a nice job of reminding readers that the "principle [of religious freedom] remains sound, even when...

please don't believe everything you read (even when it plays into your pet prejudices or vices)

Posted on September 09, 2010
I am hesitant to make this post, and I do so reluctantly and with personal sorrow. The reason for the reluctance and hesitation and sorrow is that some of what this involves is better forgiven and forgotten. But because someone...

Income inequality

Posted on September 08, 2010
Reports show that income equality in this country has increased dramatically. I know that MoJers disagree as to how much of a problem this is; at these extremes, I do believe that it is a problem of social justice --...

Inequality, Asset Price Bubbles, and Depressions

Posted on September 08, 2010
It's great to be reminded, both by Steve's and by Rob's recent posts here, of recent, alarming trends in the direction of heightened wealth- and income-inequality in America. It's also lovely to be reminded, in this connection, of a terrific...

Income Inequality

Posted on September 08, 2010
In light of Rob's focus on income inequality, I am reminded of two posts I put up on religiousleftlaw.com in July. In the first I asked: " What is most correlated with human well being including the reduction of poor...

A follow-up to incitement to religious hatred

Posted on September 08, 2010
Thank you, Patrick, for your post on Mr. Damian Thompson?s report of the Peter Tatchell production that will soon air on British television. Mr. Thompson correctly takes to task those responsible for not only the production but also the distribution....

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