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Serious Failure of Process at Marquette

Posted on May 11, 2010
My colleague Jodi O'Brien, a prominent sociologist, was recently offered the Deanship of Arts and Sciences at Marquette, only to have the University attempt to rescind the contract. As all of our institutions do, Marquette went through an extensive search...

Cardinal DiNardo's Commencement Speech at St. Gregory's University

Posted on May 11, 2010
As I mentioned Sunday, Cardinal DiNardo's commencement speech at St. Gregory's University was a great exploration of the importance of a Catholic liberal arts education. Toward the end of his speech he says: The rise of Universities in the 11th...

The Kagan nomination

Posted on May 11, 2010
I receive email updates from some pro-life advocacy groups, and their reactions to the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court are predictable, understandable, and, in my view, not at all helpful. They could all be captured in the...

A comment on the Kagan nomination

Posted on May 11, 2010
I gave the following statement to the American Principles Project on President Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan. In Elena Kagan, President Obama has nominated a person of great intellectual attainment, and unquestioned personal integrity. In these important respects, she is...

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MOJ Friend Gerry Whyte reports from Ireland

Posted on May 11, 2010
Here is what Gerry (Trinity College Dublin, Law) has to say: MOJers may be interested in a speech delivered by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin last night in which he said, inter alia, that he was 'disheartened and discouraged about the...

A Court with no Protestants . . . for real

Posted on May 10, 2010
Elena Kagan, the Solicitor General, will be nominated by President Obama to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens. And, she will almost certainly be confirmed, which means that, in a few months, the Supreme Court of the United States will...

Walker Percy

Posted on May 10, 2010
Walker Percy died twenty years ago today. Micah Mattix has some thoughts on the occasion, at First Things, here. A Youtube video of Percy's Laetare Medal speech at Notre Dame is here.

Stanley Fish on David Strauss

Posted on May 10, 2010
Today?s The New York Times online commentary [HERE] has an important and fascinating critique authored by Stanley Fish on David Strauss?s new book The Living Constitution. I think Fish is largely correct in his criticism of Strauss?s de-emphasis of the...

What Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty Claims Have in Common

Posted on May 10, 2010
That's the title of a new essay by MOJ-er Tom Berg, which will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy. Forgive me if this piece has already been noted here at MOJ. Tom,...

A Critique of Nussbaum?s ?Disgust? Argument

Posted on May 10, 2010
The new issue of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law?Volume 19, Number 1, 2010?is a ?Symposium Volume Honoring the Contributions of Martha Nussbaum to the Scholarship and Practice of Gender & Sexuality Law?. Nussbaum?s formidable colleague at the University...

Mattei Radu -- RIP

Posted on May 10, 2010
Those MOJ readers and visitors to Villanova who had the privilege of knowing Mattei Radu, a 2006 graduate of Villanova Law, will share our sadness that Mattei died on Friday (of natural causes). Mattei attended nearly every CST conference, Scarpa...

Cardinal DiNardo, Commencement Speaker at St. Gregory's University

Posted on May 09, 2010
Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending the commencement exercises at St.Gregory's University in Shawnee, Oklahoma, one of the best kept secrets in Catholic higher education. Houston's Cardinal DiNardo gave the commencement speech, which was one of the best accounts...

American Motherhood

Posted on May 09, 2010
A (to me) sobering thought on Mothers Day: The Pew Research Center is reporting that "[a] record four-in-ten births (41%) were to unmarried women in 2008, including most births to women in their early 20s. In 1990, 28% of births...

Avoidance Behavior. Or, "on this date in MOJ history . . ."

Posted on May 09, 2010
It's exam-grading season. And so, I am doing all kinds of interesting things like cleaning out my kids' "art drawer," organizing 10 years' worth of lessons clipped from "Guitar Player" magazine, and . . . going back to my MOJ...

"Immigration and Self-Governance"

Posted on May 08, 2010
My sense is that most of us here at MOJ are (at least) uneasy about Arizona's new immigration law. During a conversation with a friend (a Catholic who is a bit to the left of me politically), we spent some...

Headline Bistro and the NYT poll on Catholics' views of the Church

Posted on May 07, 2010
I came across this site, "Headline Bistro," a "service of the Knights of Columbus dedicated to bringing readers the top, daily headlines that Catholics need to know." One of the (many) pieces currently up describes a recent poll conducted by...

Robert George wins human rights award

Posted on May 07, 2010
Congrats, Robby! (Story here.) Princeton legal philosopher and constitutional scholar Robert George has been awarded the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, which recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of human rights...

From our friends over at dotCommonweal

Posted on May 07, 2010
Archbishop Grings, meet Cardinal Schoenborn May 7, 2010, 10:22 am Posted by David Gibson In other news from Lake Wobegone, Austrian Cardinal Christophe Schoenborn, a former student of Ratzinger?s who is close to the pope, gave some noteworthy comments to...

Amen, Amen, Amen!

Posted on May 07, 2010
America May 17, 2010 Pilgrim People, Part II The Editors Our pilgrim church, ?at once holy and always in need of purification,? must constantly follow ?the path of penance and renewal? (?Constitution on the Church,? No. 8). As in the...

Sister Carol Keehan, President of the Catholic Health Association

Posted on May 07, 2010
Clapping for Sister Carol by Michael Sean Winters on May. 07, 2010 NCR Today Sometimes applause is just applause. There is applause that is polite. There is the applause at the end of the singing of the National Anthem. There...

The Priest and the People

Posted on May 07, 2010
PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly May 7th, 2010 CHRISTI DEEGAN (speaking to marriage workshop): So one of the topics the church talks about is living together, cohabitating? JUDY VALENTE, Correspondent: These young Catholic couples in Chicago are attending a marriage...

Biblical Israel and Modern Political Thought

Posted on May 06, 2010
This book, The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, looks really interesting (and manageable at only 240 pages!): Eric Nelson?s magnificent book is a trim and incisive scholarly history that aims to show how something...

The Wisdom of Nicholas Kristof?

Posted on May 06, 2010
I should like to thank Steve, Susan, Rick, and John for their various contributions regarding Nicholas D. Kristof?s The New York Times op-ed piece of May 2, 2010, ?Who Can Mock This Church?? As you might surmise, I have a...

The case of Dr. Phil Boyle

Posted on May 06, 2010
Dr. Phil Boyle is a physician in Ireland who specializes in fertility treatments. His clinic adheres to Church teaching, and thus Dr. Boyle limits his treatments to married couples. Because of his refusal to provide treatment to an unmarried person,....

Horwitz reviews Richards on "Fundamentalism"

Posted on May 06, 2010
MOJ-friend Paul Horwitz has a review up, at the Concurring Opinions blog, of David A. J. Richards's book, "Fundamentalism in American Religion and Law: Obama's Challenge to Patriarchy's Threat to Democracy." (Interesting title.) Paul opens with this: When you read...

Health-care funding and abortion: A response to Bob

Posted on May 05, 2010
Like Bob, I read closely the news article to which I linked about new Planned Parenthood clinics in Michigan (and linked to it in the hope that others would also read it closely). I am happy to agree with him...

Kristof and the Church: A response to Steve

Posted on May 05, 2010
A few thoughts in response to Steve, whose recent postcriticizes one of mine. I did not expect, of course, Steve to agree with my view that Kristof's op-ed was misguided and presumptuous in places. (Recall here my link yesterday to...

Planned Parenthood in Michigan and Minnesota

Posted on May 05, 2010
Hello All, I'd like to commend to all MoJ readers the two newspaper stories recently cited and linked to by Rick and by Greg. The reason is that I take very different impressions away from those stories than those highlighted...

The arguments(s) for school choice

Posted on May 05, 2010
Rob's post and Charles Murray make an important point -- the reason why school choice is not only justifiable, but also just, is not because school choice (if correctly implemented) can cause higher test scores. Two quick points: First, the...

What is (and is not) the central argument for school choice?

Posted on May 05, 2010
I guess I'm the opposite of many politicians: I favor school choice, yet I send my own kids to the public schools of an urban school district. I like the idea of attending and supporting a neighborhood school, and it...

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