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More on Meilaender

Posted on June 22, 2010
I want to echo the disappointment that Robby expressed regarding Gene McCarraher's (uncharacteristically, I think) mean-spirited and unfair letter about Gilbert Meilaender to which Michael linked recently. Prof. Meilaender is, in my view, among the most eloquent and inspiring Christian...

Susan Stabile's reflections on St. Thomas More

Posted on June 22, 2010
With Susan Stabile's permission, I cross-post her Creo en Dios! reflection on the memorial of St. Thomas More: Today the Catholic Church celebrates the memorial of St. Thomas More, who, among other patronages, is the patron saint of lawyers. More...

An Altar in the World

Posted on June 21, 2010
I am reading a wonderful book by Barbara Brown Taylor, An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith. America magazine describes it as a ?delight to the eyes, mind and heart.? The title refers to the presence of God...

"Neither Beast Nor God"

Posted on June 21, 2010
On a recent plane trip, I read Gilbert Meileander's Neither Beast Nor God (buy it here), which is a succinct examination of the ideas of human and personal "dignity." He writes (among other things): I doubt whether we can understand...

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Marriage and Individualism

Posted on June 21, 2010
I just started reading Andrew Cherlin's 2009 book, The Marriage Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family Today. One of the observations he makes is that although we often think of a nation's culture as consistent and unified -...

"Who is Jewish Enough for Anglo-Jewish Schools?"

Posted on June 21, 2010
There have been a few posts up, here at MOJ, about the controversial case involving the recent decision by the U.K.'s new Supreme Court in the Jewish Free School case. Here, in a Sightings column, Heather Miller Rubens weighs in,...

A Sino-Vatican "entente"?

Posted on June 21, 2010
Here is an interview by Global Times reporter Li Yanjie with Zhuo Xinping, director of the Institute of Religions at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Liu Ping, director of the Pushi Institute for Social Sciences, on the state...

"How Anti-Catholicism Helped Fuel the American Revolution"

Posted on June 21, 2010
Here is a worthwhile online series of essays -- about two years old now -- by Steve Waldman of "Beliefnet": Pope Benedict XI, it is said, admires America?s religious freedom and history. I do too, especially where we have ended...

Riley-Smith on the Crusades

Posted on June 21, 2010
It seems to me -- and has seemed to me for a while -- that a distressing large number of educated and engaged people have embraced -- either uncritically or insufficiently critically -- inaccurate and often tendentious narratives about historical...

Smith on "marriage equality" and begging the question

Posted on June 21, 2010
My friend and former colleague Steve Smith has an interesting post up, at "Law, Religion, and Ethics" about the deployment in the same-sex-marriage debate of the term "marriage equality". His post reminds me of conversations we've had over the years....

Gedicks on Fundamentalism and Postmodernism

Posted on June 21, 2010
Fred Gedicks has posted a new paper that should be of interest to MoJers titled God of Our Fathers, Gods for Ourselves: Fundamentalism and Postmodern Belief. (HT: Solum) Here's the abstract: Prepared for a symposium on ?Families, Fundamentalism, and the...

Catholic Unity, Teaching, and Belief

Posted on June 21, 2010
Thanks to Michael P. for his directing our attention to the June 14 Commonweal editorial entitled ?Catholic Unity.? The thrust of the editorial pits the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) against others regarding the March 23 health care...

Speaking of Gilbert Meilaender, ...

Posted on June 21, 2010
... as Rick just was: I was reminded of this letter about Meilaender that appears in the current issue of Commonweal: ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE Paul Lauritzen portrays Gilbert Meilaender as a stalwart defender of human life (?Intellectual Street Fighter,? May...

The Phoenix controversy

Posted on June 20, 2010
What Happened in Phoenix? The complicated reasons behind an abortion at a Catholic hospital By Kevin O'Rourke [This from AMERICA, June 21, 2010.]

Common Ground?

Posted on June 19, 2010
NYT, 6/19/10 Campaigning for Common Ground in Abortion Debate By SUSAN DOMINUS A group in New York is seeking to make adoption a subject at abortion clinics. Here.

Our Addiction to Foreign Oil

Posted on June 18, 2010
Jim Wallis in Sojourners wrote yesterday about the oil spill. He agrees with the President that: ?For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered. . . . For decades, we?ve talked and talked...

Bottum on the Gardner execution

Posted on June 18, 2010
Jody Bottum laments Utah's execution of Ronnie Lee Gardner: There is, in fact, only a single reason that Ronnie Lee Gardner died last night?a single explanation that makes any sense at all. And it is that he deserved it. The...

"Catholic Unity"

Posted on June 18, 2010
COMMONWEAL June 18, 2010 Catholic Unity by The Editors What makes the USCCB and its legal and legislative staffs so confident that they alone are competent to understand the new health-care law? Is there a possibility that the USCCB might...

Human Dignity and the Right to Life in German Law

Posted on June 18, 2010
Kai Moller has posted a fascinating new paper, The Right to Life Between Absolute and Proportional Protection. Of particular interest (to me, anyway) was the discussion of Germany's post-9/11 law authorizing the government to shoot down an airplane likely to...

Peter Singer responds

Posted on June 17, 2010
Here.

Big News from the Holy See

Posted on June 17, 2010
"The Vatican" has, according to this report, endorsed The Blues Brothers:When Jake and Elwood Blues, the protagonists in John Landis' cult classic "The Blues Brothers," claimed they were on a mission from God, the Catholic Church apparently took them at...

The Belushi Brothers and the Church's Responsibility to the Faithful

Posted on June 17, 2010
I applaud the Church's embrace of the Blues Brothers, but the Church needs to speak with unmistakable clarity in this area and underscore that this embrace extends only to the 1980 film. The unsuspecting Catholic might be misled by the...

Want to Live a Better Life?

Posted on June 16, 2010
Here are tips from Pope John XXIII and from Buddhist teacher Ken McLeod. cross-posted at religiousleftlaw.com

Christian Legal Society

Posted on June 16, 2010
On February 5 on MOJ, Tom Berg described the soon-to-be-decided Christian Legal Society case in this way: ?Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, now before the Supreme Court, is a very important case about freedom of association, free exercise of religion,...

Update on the new healthcare bill

Posted on June 16, 2010
John Allen on Minding the gap between the bishops and Catholic health care, here. And Obama Thanks Nurses for Backing Health Care Bill, here.

Opposition to the Death Penalty in Utah

Posted on June 16, 2010
"We oppose capital punishment not just for what it does to those guilty of horrible crimes, but for how it affects society," says Bishop John C. Wester, of the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, a founding member of the...

More on John Garvey

Posted on June 15, 2010
As Rob mentioned, in his earlier post, the decision by Catholic University to hire my friend and mentor John Garvey as that institution's new president is an inspired one. John is a person of many gifts, and his vision regarding...

Fish on Tamanaha on Styles of Judging

Posted on June 15, 2010
Stanley Fish comments on Brian Tamanaha's new book, agreeing with his central argument debunking the myth of the formalist-realist divide. This is a debate that has been central to our own discussions about the role of judges contemplated by Catholic...

Congratulations to John Garvey

Posted on June 15, 2010
Law school deans don't have much time for blogging, but Dean President Garvey is without question an honorary MoJer. A great hire for Catholic.

Socialism ... er, I mean, Communism, Comes to Rwanda!

Posted on June 15, 2010
HEALTH | June 15, 2010 A Poor Nation, With a Health Plan By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Ninety-two percent of Rwanda is covered by a national health plan, and the premiums are $2 a year. Read all about it, here.

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