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The vanishing Catholic adoption agency

Posted on August 24, 2010
The last Catholic adoption agency in the U.K. has closed after losing its legal challenge to anti-discrimination laws that require agencies to consider same-sex couples as adoptive parents: Since Labour?s homosexual rights law came into effect in January 2009, all...

'Moses' on Cordoba House

Posted on August 23, 2010
I seldom see, let alone recommend, Jon Stewart's takes on sundry topics of the day (don't have cable), but this one I've seen and can heartily recommend: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/jon-stewart-is-fox-news-a-terrorist-command-center-video...

"Universities and the Graciousness of Being"

Posted on August 21, 2010
Maybe it's just because I'm in the middle of law-school orientation, but I seem to be thinking a lot (see my last post) about universities. In any event, this essay, by R.J. Snell at Public Discourse, struck me as thoughtful...

Fides et ratio's implications for universities

Posted on August 21, 2010
Randall Smith asks, here, asks what taking John Paul II's important encyclical Fides et ratio seriously would mean for Catholic universities. A taste: One of the greatest popes in history writes a remarkably nuanced and intellectually profound encyclical ? one...

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Citzens United--Wall Street v. Main Street

Posted on August 21, 2010
As Rob points out, the Citizens United decision continues to provoke controversies. We sorely need a clearer and more nuanced consideration of the meaning of Court's extension of the definition of corporate personhood to include rights of free speech...

Quid est academia Catholica?

Posted on August 21, 2010
What is the university? What is the Catholic university? These questions are at the core of three of Rick?s recent postings (here, here, and here). While each of these postings raises different issues about the nature of the university which,...

Mosques and Military Funerals

Posted on August 20, 2010
We can be grateful for the accelerating chorus of commentary to the effect that there is a constitutional right to build a mosque near the site of the world trade center attacks even if it is offensive to many people....

The Becket Fund stands up (to ACLU) for Catholic hospitals

Posted on August 20, 2010
As was observed the other day by David Gibson at the Commonweal blog, Catholic hospitals do a "better job". They are important for society. And, as Jody Bottum explained a few months ago, authentically Catholic hospitals are important not only...

Rob's Helpful Taxonomy

Posted on August 20, 2010
Rob's post considering potentially non-bigoted arguments against the construction of a mosque near ground zero highlights how problematic those arguments really are. Arguments 1 and 4 rely on inaccurate and essentialized views of Islam. Argument 2 is similarly inaccurate and...

Reaching closure (at least as to substance of the anti-mosque arguments)

Posted on August 20, 2010
I do not want to turn MoJ into the "mosque near Ground Zero blog," but I do think this is an issue that is close to the heart of this blog's mission, so I want to take one more stab...

Michael Winters lets us know just what kind of guy he is

Posted on August 20, 2010
Last night, one of my former students sent me a link to Michael Winters' blog at the National Catholic Reporter, where Winters has posted a response to my MoJ post about his most recent attack on me. Here is the...

What's the Argument Against the Mosque Location, A Reader Asks

Posted on August 19, 2010
In the comments to my "at" or "near" post of yesterday, a reader asks the following question. Since it is an important question, I thought I'd pull it from the comments where it might go unnoticed and ask for thoughts...

A mosque near Ground Zero and crosses at Auschwitz

Posted on August 18, 2010
Over at Law Religion Ethics blog, Rutgers law prof Perry Dane compares the proposed mosque near Ground Zero to the controversy over crosses at Auschwitz. (I'm not opening comments here because comments are open there.)

Building a Mosque and Rebuilding a Church at Ground Zero

Posted on August 18, 2010
I am glad that the conversation concerning the mosque near Ground Zero has been clarified here on MOJ. The question of religious liberty in this case really is so simple and obvious as to be almost uninteresting. Of course the...

Robert George, the mosque, and religious freedom

Posted on August 18, 2010
Robby writes: Across the country in recent months, from California, to Louisiana, to New York, anti-Muslim sentiment has become a prominent feature of opposition to new mosques. At risk in this is religious freedom itself. But not just religious freedom...

The Mosque and Michael Winters

Posted on August 18, 2010
Dear Rick: Because I've been dealing with a horrible family tragedy, I have not been reading or contributing to MoJ for the past ten days or so. During a visit to South Africa, my brother Edward's fiance, Helen Elaine Hill,...

Another analogy?

Posted on August 18, 2010
Rob links, below, to Perry Dane's recent discussion of the analogy that some have proposed between the controversy over the convent at Auschwitz, on the one hand, and the Cordoba Project near Ground Zero, on the other. Walking in to...

A Mosque "At" or "Near"

Posted on August 18, 2010
I appreciate the title of Rob's last post, which speaks of a mosque "near" Ground Zero. People keep speaking of a mosque "at" Ground Zero or refer to it as a "Ground Zero Mosque." Whether or not one is generally...

Chris Eberle responds to Paul Horwitz, and Paul Horwitz replies

Posted on August 18, 2010
Here is Chris Eberle's response to Paul Horwitz's thoughts: Just a quick response to Paul Horwitz. I take it that Professor Horwitz and I agree that there are serious questions to be raised about the moral propriety of the building...

Citizens United and the culture wars

Posted on August 17, 2010
I continue to be fascinated by the fallout from Target's decision to donate $150,000 to an organization supporting Tom Emmer, the GOP candidate for Minnesota governor. Emmer, besides being a conservative who favors lower taxes, opposes same-sex marriage (though he...

Horwitz responds to Eberle about the mosque

Posted on August 17, 2010
MOJ-friend and Prawfsblogger Paul Horwitz sends in these as-per-usual charitable and careful thoughts, responding to Chris Eberle (see here): Chris Eberle raises some valuable questions in his correspondence with Rick about the New York mosque. He is right that not...

Cavadini on Ex Corde

Posted on August 16, 2010
Michael Sean Winters has posted thoughts from my Notre Dame colleague, John Cavadini (Theology), on the impact, influence, and importance of Ex Corde. Great stuff. A taste: Our colleges and universities, but especially the universities with graduate programs, live under...

More on the mosque

Posted on August 16, 2010
Like Rob, I received an e-mail asking why I (like others at MOJ) had not posted anything about the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy. I suppose part of the reason is that -- like Rob -- I think the legal and...

Boston College's take on "The Catholic Intellectual Tradition"

Posted on August 16, 2010
Fr. Robert Imbelli -- whose posts we all often read at dotCommonweal -- passed on to me this link to an interesting document, "The Catholic Intellectual Tradition," recently produced by a Committee at Boston College. Check it out, and let...

Religious-liberty "hypocrisy"

Posted on August 16, 2010
I like the "Distinctly Catholic" blog, which is run by Michael Sean Winters. And,I agree with him that ('twas ever thus, no?) that politics and public debate presents no end of examples of hypocrisy, in the sense that many people...

The mosque near ground zero

Posted on August 14, 2010
A reader asks why there has been no debate on MoJ about the proposal to build an Islamic center and mosque 2-4 blocks from the World Trade Center site. I'm guessing there hasn't been any debate because there isn't much...

Proposition 8 and the Rule of Facts

Posted on August 13, 2010
I have an essay on Judge Walker's Proposition 8 ruling in the forthcoming Commonweal. You can read it here. I welcome comments.

Domestic Partnership and Business Partnership

Posted on August 12, 2010
Rick G and David Nikol posted nice, thought-provoking sets of comments to my recent post on marriage. I've offered tentative replies in the comments section to the post. It occurs to me that MoJ readers might also be interested in...

Neutrality in Hiring for Mission

Posted on August 12, 2010
Several MOJ contributors commented (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) on Marquette University?s decision to first offer and then to revoke its offer to Jodi O?Brien to serve as the University?s dean of the...

Electronic Entertainment and Spirituality

Posted on August 11, 2010
One of the many themes of the late Father Robert Smith in his sermons was the difficulty of leading a spiritual life in a world that ?entertains us to death? (a phrase, I borrow from Neil Postman?s excellent book of...

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