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"Religion in Legal Thought and Practice"

Posted on June 04, 2010
This collection, edited by Penn's Howard Lesnick, is really interesting and engaging. It features, among other things, the work of MOJ-ers Amy Uelmen, Susan Stabile, and Robert George (to say nothing of honorary MOJ-ers John Courtney Murray and Joseph Ratzinger!)...

UCCSB Letter on Discrimination Against Homosexuals

Posted on June 04, 2010
I know I?m a little late to the party on this one. On May 19, the USCCB wrote a letter setting out its reasons for opposing the proposed Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which would prohibit discrimination against homosexuals in employment. The...

St. Gilbert?

Posted on June 04, 2010
I am a huge fan of G. K. Chesterton. His "Orthodoxy" and "The Dumb Ox" are two of my all-time favorite books. So, I also enjoyed this, written by Ian Gerdon, currently a theology student at Notre Dame (HT: Sightings):...

Conscience and the Common Good?

Posted on June 03, 2010
I have posted here (and at the right) a comment (delivered at a conference last November at Notre Dame) on our very own Rob Vischer's provocative new book Conscience and the Common Good. The comment will be published in the...

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Repentance

Posted on June 03, 2010
Susan Guthrie, a writer and Episcopal priest has a wonderful column at Christian Century on repentance. She writes that, "I've noticed an aversion to the language of confession, repentance and reconciliation. Some will seriously argue that this is due to...

More on repentance

Posted on June 03, 2010
Steve's post on "repentance", and the insightful thoughts of Susan Guthrie to which he linked, came to mind when I read this article about the State of Minnesota's recent resolution apologizing to Minnesotans with mental and developmental disabilities for their...

"Up in the Air" and the Holy Trinity

Posted on June 02, 2010
To me, the Feast of the Holy Trinity seems a particularly special day for those of us who are interested in Catholic social doctrine. After all, we are reminded on that day that the God in Whose image we are...

More on the Arizona Excommunication

Posted on June 02, 2010
Varioue MOJ'ers have commented on the excommunication of a nun and other members of a Cahtolic hospital ethics committee in connection with a recent abortion. So I thought readers might be interested in this view expressed by Patrick McCormick, professor...

Catholic Jurisprudence: The Good, the Bad, and the Future

Posted on June 02, 2010
This spring, I taught a seminar in Catholic jurisprudence. The main text was Recovering Self-Evident Truths: Catholic Perspectives on American Law. The final assignment required students to write a reflection paper on the class. One student - a top student...

Identity politics and who's in bed with Wall Street

Posted on June 02, 2010
I am happy to agree with Brother Michael P. that both major political parties have been too cozy with "Wall Street." (And Wall Street, as I've suggested before, is all-too-willing to snuggle up with big government at the expense of...

Obama and the Democrats in bed with Wall Street?

Posted on June 01, 2010
Hmm. No doubt both political parties have been much too cozy with "Wall Street". But Robby's colleague Paul Krugman had this to say on May 23: "Follow the money ? donations by corporate political action committees. Look, for example, at...

University Faculty for Life conference

Posted on June 01, 2010
The annual meeting/conference of University Faculty for Life (UFL) is this weekend (June 4-5, 2010) at Catholic U. Information about the conference is available on the UFL website. Here. The speakers include Hadley Arkes, Tom Cavanaugh, Richard Doerflinger, Jason Eberl,...

An addendum to something I said to Rick ...

Posted on June 01, 2010
... in our weekend to and fro. I said: "[W]e both know that some special interests have the potential to do much greater and longer lasting damage to the common good than other special interests. The masters of the financial...

Secular Worldviews, Religious Worldviews, and the Morality of Human Rights

Posted on June 01, 2010
That's the title of a new paper--a draft--that I've posted to SSRN and thought might be of interest to some MOJ readers. The abstract: "The morality of human rights -- by which I mean the foundational, connected moral claims articulated...

Martin Rhonheimer

Posted on June 01, 2010
Robby George mentioned the work of Martin Rhonheimer the other day. MOJ friend Greg Walker kindly calls to our attention a recent work by Rhonheimer, titled Vital Conflicts in Medical Ethics (2009) and published by the Catholic University of America....

Dear John O'Callaghan, [UPDATED]

Posted on June 01, 2010
I had thought that my questions, which arose for me out of a reading of your post, and your answers, to which I looked forward, would have advanced the conversation--not concluded the conversation, but advanced it. You disagree; you obviously...

Catholics, Home-Ownership, and Finance

Posted on June 01, 2010
Though one might laud our (early 1930s through mid-1990s) American system of mortgage finance from many nominally distinct points of ideological view, I have long been struck by how well this system cohered, until recently, with the Catholic 'distributist' ideals...

O'Callaghan replies to Perry

Posted on June 01, 2010
MOJ-friend John O'Callaghan sends this reply to Michael Perry: Michael, in the absence of your expressing and explaining a view on what I wrote, other than the rather ambiguous ?clarifying analysis,? your additional questions that you put to me strike...

An addendum to my previous post

Posted on June 01, 2010
Perhaps we would all be much better off with more Zen students on "Wall Street": "America had Zen students in the past, has them in the present, and will have many of them in the future. They mingle easily with...

Memorial Day

Posted on May 31, 2010
Today the United States celebrates Memorial Day, a day of remembrance of those who have died while in military service. I confess that I have mixed feelings about the day. On the one hand, I am grateful to those who...

A clarification for Rick, and, more importantly, an invitation to John O'Callaghan

Posted on May 31, 2010
The clarification for Rick: I posted Cathy's dotCommonweal analysis not because I endorsed it, but because I thought it would help us MOJers think more carefully about the Phoenix case. The same reason, as it happens, you posted John O'Callaghan's...

O'Callaghan on the Arizona case, Anscombe, and abortion

Posted on May 31, 2010
Prof. John O'Callaghan, a philosopher at the University of Notre Dame, kindly sent in his thoughts concerning the Arizona case that we have been discussing here at MOJ (here, here, here, etc.) In particular, he responds to my colleague Cathy...

Anscombe, abortion, and related matters...

Posted on May 31, 2010
I am grateful to Michael P. for introducing the thread on the work of Elizabeth Anscombe and Professor Kaveny?s use of her work regarding the abortion issue and the Phoenix case. I am further grateful to other MoJ contributors who...

Transparency, big government, and big business

Posted on May 31, 2010
Thanks, Michael P., for asking about my views regarding transparency. I think that transparency is usually (though not quite always) a good thing in the legislative process. As you rightly suggest, transparency is especially valuable and important in circumstances in...

"Talk to me, baby!" Happy to oblige.

Posted on May 30, 2010
Rick says: "talk to me, baby!" Happy to oblige. I think that our politics is often devoted to serving special interests rather than the common good. I think that our politics is, in that sense, often corrupt. And let me...

To and fro with Rick, and then Michael Lewis makes the point

Posted on May 30, 2010
Rick commented on my post: "I don't think so. I mean, there's always the danger that we (all of us) are tempted to regard as "serving special interests rather than the common good" those policies that serve others' visions or...

"From Religious Freedom to Moral Freedom"

Posted on May 29, 2010
Yesterday I posted a new paper to SSRN. Some Mirror of Justice readers may be interested. Here is the abstract: In one or another articulation, the right to religious freedom is a familiar part of national constitutions and of regional...

Dear Richard, Part 2

Posted on May 29, 2010
[Please take a look at this too: Michael Liccione, blogging at First Things on May 21:] For approving an abortion at an Arizona hospital late last year, Sr. Margaret McBride has incurred excommunication latae sententiae?meaning that her actions have caused...

Okay, let's talk about scandal ...

Posted on May 29, 2010
I read Rick's comment about "an appropriate desire to avoid creating a scandal or causing confusion among people who are not schooled in the intricacies of these difficult questions ..." And then I read a new post by Lisa Fullam...

more on Olmstead and McBride

Posted on May 29, 2010
Thanks to Michael for his questions. There is a lot of good discussion on the Commonweal and First Things blogs about the Arizona case. On the First Things blog, there is, in addition to the post by Michael Liccione, an...

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