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incitement to religious hatred: the possible case of Peter Tatchell

Posted on September 08, 2010
Damian Thompson in the Telegraph offers some telling data and insights about how incitement to religious hatred sometimes comes to pass. Could any educated person in good faith reject the corrections Thompson makes to Tatchell's "account"? The further question, then,...

Call for papers: Journal of Business Ethics

Posted on September 08, 2010
The Encyclical-Letter Caritas in veritate: Ethical Challenges for Business The Journal of Business Ethics announces the Call for Papers for a special issue on Business Ethics and the Encyclical-Letter Caritas in veritate. Purpose of this Special Issue The Encyclical-Letter Caritas...

McConnell on Kennedy and Church-State Separation at Notre Dame

Posted on September 07, 2010
More info here: In recognition of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy?s historic speech on the separation of church and state, the University of Notre Dame will present ?Remind Me: Why Did Anyone Care if JFK was a...

Burning the Koran as a message to "radical" Muslims

Posted on September 07, 2010
I was pleased to see that religious leaders (including Cardinal McCarrick) gathered to raise concerns about a perceived growing anti-Muslim sentiment in this country. (I'm not sure if it's actually growing or whether it's just become more apparent in recent...

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Daly on religiosity and welfare-policies

Posted on September 06, 2010
In response to my post, just below, about religiosity and G.D.P., Lew Daly -- author of, among other things, "God and the Welfare State" (here), writes: The US is far less of a religious outlier among advanced countries if one...

The importance of religion . . . and G.D.P.

Posted on September 05, 2010
An interesting piece, and chart, from Charles Blow, in the NYT. Nutshell: America is an "outlier" in that we combine a high level of religiosity (i.e., many of our people say that religion is "important" to them) with economic productivity...

"Catholic Schools and Broken Windows"

Posted on September 05, 2010
Mary McConnell has a must-read post up over at Law, Religion, and Ethics, called "Catholic Schools and Broken Windows," which engages a must-read law-review article by my colleagues Margaret Brinig and (ahem) Nicole Stelle Garnett. Here's the article's abstract: This...

McGraw, "Faith in Politics"

Posted on September 05, 2010
Here is a new book by my friend and Wheaton political theorist Bryan McGraw, called "Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy." John Witte's blurb suggests to me that this is a must-read: "In this breakthrough book, Bryan McGraw offers...

Catholics and Demographics

Posted on September 04, 2010
One striking set of facts discussed in the forthcoming book American Grace is that the three largest groups with attitudes about religion in the U.S. are first, Catholics; second, those who are not religious (17%); and third, those who have...

Amazing Grace

Posted on September 03, 2010
I am at the Political Science conference. I attended a panel on a forthcoming book on the sociology of religion by Robert Putnam and Robert Campbell called American Grace. Suffice it to say it will be a must read for...

Glenn Beck and idolatry

Posted on September 03, 2010
Russell Moore, dean of the school of theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, has taken American Christians to task for falling under the spell of Glenn Beck. It's an interesting snapshot into some of the internal debates going on...

Torture and littering

Posted on September 03, 2010
David Luban reminds us of what is at stake when judges find a word's meaning to be clear (or not so clear).

Where's the love?

Posted on September 03, 2010
Wheaton College prof Alan Jacobs has a thoughtful reflection on the righteous indignation that pervades the Internet: A now-famous cartoon on the xkcd ?webcomics? site shows a stick figure typing away at his computer keyboard as a voice from outside....

Sex and the Dodd-Frank Act

Posted on September 02, 2010
A commentary by Margaret Brooks in today's Chronicle of Higher Education, "Sex Week" Should Arouse Caution Most of All, points out the most powerful cultural force promulgating the permissive sexual norms that concern Rob and Bob -- the sex industry....

Save the Date - Sixth Annual Conference on Catholic Legal Thought

Posted on September 02, 2010
Mark your calendars! The Sixth Annual Conference on Catholic Legal Thought will be held at the University of Oklahoma College of Law May 17-19, 2011. I am pleased to announce that Paul Griffiths, Warren Professor of Catholic Thought at Duke...

Religious-freedom-in-hiring update

Posted on September 01, 2010
An excerpt from this story: "More than 100 religious organizations are urging members of Congress to reject pending legislation that would prohibit them from considering religion when hiring . . . "The law has long protected the religious freedom of....

Retribution and Capital Punishment

Posted on August 31, 2010
Thom Brooks has posted a short paper laying out a retributivist argument for rejecting the retributivist justification of the death penalty. His argument is epistemological; it does not rely on the notion that capital punishment is not proportionate to murder...

Should Sarah Palin thank Ruth Bader Ginsburg? (And can CLT help her do so?)

Posted on August 31, 2010
I don't always agree with Dahlia Lithwick, but I do appreciate this short essay on the feminism of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and how her contributions to the law helped make the public and professional careers of women like Sarah Palin...

The development of norms that promote the virtuous person

Posted on August 31, 2010
Thanks to Rob for his posting entitled ?The disappearing social stigma of STDs.? Like Rob, I am astounded by the attitudes that accept the practices regarding not only our children, but adults, and the surrounding culture in which we live....

The disappearing social stigma of STDs

Posted on August 31, 2010
I am not at all opposed to sexually active teenagers getting tested for STDs. (I'm pretty sure that sentence has never begun a post on MoJ.) I am troubled, though, that casual sex is such an accepted part of our...

Trust and the Global Law Firm

Posted on August 30, 2010
This may not fit squarely within the Catholic legal theory genre, but I'm guessing that attorneys who derive value from the Catholic legal theory project are, not coincidentally, more likely than not to see the practice of law as a...

Some Comments on Black Liberation Theology

Posted on August 29, 2010
Rev. James Martin has a thoughtful statement on Glenn Beck and Liberation Theology in the Huffington Post. While there is much to say about this topic--much more than is appropriate here--a correction is sorely needed. Martin, despite his typical erudition,...

Greenhouse on Commandments displays, abortion, and church-state "separation"

Posted on August 27, 2010
In this NYT piece, Linda Greenhouse observes, with evident concern, that: [A] familiar Ten Commandments case is now heading back to the Supreme Court. The court has spent years making a nearly complete hash out of the public display of...

Quote of the day

Posted on August 27, 2010
From Spencer v. World Vision, in defense of religious liberty in hiring: The core of Judge Berzon?s dissent is the idea that performance of activities that are often performed in a secular context cannot be religious. That is mistaken. When...

Nussbaum on educating for democracy

Posted on August 27, 2010
At the consistently wonderful Books & Culture, check out Christopher Benson's review of Martha Nussbaum's Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. Benson was optimistic ("What's not to love about a title that promises to argue for a humanistic...

Spencer v. World Vision

Posted on August 27, 2010
I missed this, but on Monday the Ninth Circuit issued a reassuring (but not unanimous, unfortunately) decision for those of us who care about religious liberty in hiring. You can read the opinion here.

Prayers for Doug Kmiec

Posted on August 26, 2010
Doug Kmiec, a longtime friend and colleague of many MOJ readers and bloggers, and also the current Ambassador to Malta, was in a serious car accident yesterday afternoon in Malibu, California. I have not been able to find news coverage,...

More on the Catholic adoption agency ruling

Posted on August 25, 2010
British human rights attorney Aidan O'Neill responds to my skeptical post regarding the closure of the last Catholic adoption agency in the U.K. He notes that "things are a little more complex on the facts than my post implied": It...

"Mosque furor echoes early American ant-Catholicism"

Posted on August 25, 2010
?We are awake to the hypocrisy and schemes of that designing, crafty, subtle, far-seeing and far-reaching Power, which is ever-grasping after the whole world, to sway its iron scepter with blood stained hands over the millions of its inhabitants.? OSV's...

The meta-cognition deficit

Posted on August 24, 2010
I rarely link to David Brooks on MoJ, but I find today's column on the meta-cognition deficit to be especially fascinating: "Very few in public life habitually step back and think about the weakness in their own thinking and what...

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