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A quick thought in response to Rob
Posted on March 30, 2010Rob asks, with respect to the Church's possible "blind spots", whether "abuse cases have turned out differently if women were part of the conversation". I do not know. But, the shocking evidence of the extent of the sexual abuse of...
"Law and Judicial Duty" Conference
Posted on March 30, 2010This should be good: Catholic University's "Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture" is hosting, on April 8 and 9, a symposium on Philip Hamburger's Law and Judicial Duty. In his recent book, Law and Judicial Duty, Philip Hamburger traces the...
Church sexual abuse: "Fidelity" is not quite enough
Posted on March 30, 2010The late Richard John Neuhaus used to emphasize that the priest sexual abuse scandal was about "fidelity, fidelity, fidelity," and George Weigel makes the same point now. At one level, I agree. On another level, though, "fidelity" is too simplistic.....
Michael Walzer (!) has something to say to us as this Lent (and Passover) nears its end
Posted on March 30, 2010How Passover Could Cure Us of the Tea Party Michael Walzer - March 29, 2010 4:00 pm On Passover, Jews are told to ?remember? that they were slaves in Egypt. I have often wondered what kind of an act this...
Not the priest problem, but the *****bishop***** problem!
Posted on March 30, 2010[from dotCommonweal:] John Allen on NPR March 30, 2010, 3:29 pm Posted by Eric Bugyis A friend alerted me to this interview with John Allen on NPR regarding the abuse scandal. His parting words, which I think are right on:...
We're Pro-Marriage as well as Pro-Life, Right?
Posted on March 30, 2010But it's no small challenge making a marriage work, and work for many, many years. Here's some good advice: Secret to a good marriage
Cheering for Jesus? Of Girls' Basketball, Catholic High School, and Religious School Pride
Posted on March 30, 2010My daughter Caitlin is in her freshman year of high school at Benilde-St. Margaret's in the Twin Cities. When the time came to select a high school, she wanted a high school with both solid Catholic teaching and advanced academic...
Stupak has not kept his reasons secret. They just haven't been widely reported.
Posted on March 29, 2010My mistake was corrected by MOJ reader David Nickol. Here is the language he sent along with a link to the whole interview: Stupak said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had enough votes to pass the health bill without him...
"A Time for Contrition," by Ross Douthat
Posted on March 29, 2010[The original is here.] During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: ?Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power to destroy the Catholic Church?? The cardinal, the anecdote goes, responded...
Sniff, sniff ... is that Lochner I smell?
Posted on March 29, 2010Hey, Rick, where is James Bradley Thayer when we need him? See Is the Health Care Law Unconstitutional?, here.
Revisiting Keenan's "History of Catholic Moral Theology in the Twentieth Century"
Posted on March 29, 2010There were some posts about Jesuit Keenan's book a while back, including one by me. Now, this review appears in AMERICA, by Richard Gula, S.S., professor of moral theology at the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union,...
This, just because Duke beat Baylor yesterday?
Posted on March 29, 2010Mark Osler from Baylor to St. Thomas (Minnesota) Mark Osler, Professor of Law at Baylor University School of Law, has accepted a tenured position at St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis. Professor Osler publishes in the area of sentencing law....
Ireland Archbishop Asks Accountability of Colleagues
Posted on March 29, 2010Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin called on his episcopal colleagues to take responsibility for the Irish Catholic Church?s failures in dealing with child sexual abuse by priests. ?Without accountability for the past there will be no healing and no trust...
AMERICA on the passage of the healthcare legislation
Posted on March 29, 2010AMERICA: The National Catholic Weekly April 5, 2010 Current Comment The Editors Achieving Step One Hurrah! The yearlong battle has been won, and the health care reform bill is now the law of the land. Most Americans will benefit from...
"Scoundrel Time(s)"
Posted on March 29, 2010Here is George Weigel, addressing both the great moral evil that is the sexual abuse of children, and the disturbingly under-inclusive and accuracy-challenged reporting on that evil that is being provided these days by the New York Times and others:....
"Christian" militia? Hmm ...
Posted on March 29, 2010Militia Charged With Plotting to Murder Officers By CHARLIE SAVAGE 5:48 PM ET Members of a Christian militia were indicted on sedition and weapons charges in connection with an alleged plot to murder law enforcement officers.
Interesting NPR Story on Brain Science and Moral Reasoning
Posted on March 29, 2010[Cross-posted at ReligousLeftLaw] On the way home, I heard an interesting NPR story on brain imaging and moral judgment. Here's how it starts: A person's moral judgments can be changed almost instantly by delivering a magnetic pulse to an area...
Sherif Girgis on guns and knives, sexual organs, and generative (or "reproductive-type") acts
Posted on March 29, 2010In my twenty-five years at Princeton, I've been privileged to teach some truly extraordinary students. None, though, is more gifted than 2008 Princeton grad Sherif Girgis, who is currently doing graduate work in philosophy as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford...
John Paul II on Understanding
Posted on March 28, 2010A few recent posts struck me as having arrived at a felicitous moment. The first pair were Rick Garnett's posts on the fifth anniversary of John Paul II's death and on Catholic moral anthropology. A third was Patrick Brennan's post...
Thoughts on the Clergy Abuse Scandal
Posted on March 28, 2010My good friend and former student, Fr. Jim Goins wrote the following: Celibacy only works when the celibate submerges sexual desire into a deeper desire for union with the Divine. Sexual repression, on the other hand, is lethal and corrupting...
Perspective on the hard work the NYT has been doing
Posted on March 28, 2010Some may find the following data and perspective, which come from Fr. Raymond de Souza, to be of assistance in discerning the truth in what is being widely reported as we move into Holy Week.
Stupak did right but has to keep it a secret (I think).
Posted on March 28, 2010If the federal courts behave as they have in the past (see the very solid USCCB analysis of prior cases), the new healthcare law, despite the slightly pro-life wording of the executive order, will dramatically promote abortion. Funding for elective...
A most enjoyable visit Boston College
Posted on March 27, 2010Thursday evening I had the honor to give the 2010 Prophetic Voices Lecture at Boston College. The annual lecture is sponsored by the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, under the direction of Alan Wolfe....
John Allen on Benedict and Clerical-Abuse Scandal
Posted on March 27, 2010John Allen -- who occupies the regrettably lonely but richly deserved (not the lonely part) position as "journalist on things Catholic who seems to be respected by everyone, even those who seem to disagree about everythign else" -- has this...
Health Care Reform (5): Future Scenarios
Posted on March 27, 2010[This is the last in a series. You can view the full series on one page here.] The Congressional Budget Office reports that President Obama?s budgets will push the national debt to 90 percent of Gross National Product. Former CBO...
"Crying Wolf": A Response
Posted on March 27, 2010For a response to the claims contained in the Commonweal editorial ("Crying Wolf") to which Michael P. linked, go here. To be sure, our friends are right to warn about the wages of "crying wolf". And, there is no denying...
An initial response to Michael's correspondent
Posted on March 27, 2010Michael P. quotes a correspondent who writes, with respect to E.J. Dionne's recent Washington Post piece: "A question that should be put to every participant of the MOJ blog, to which no one should not respond if MOJ intends to...
Epistemology and Politics, Part II
Posted on March 27, 2010Michael P. is quite right to call our attention to the pervasive problem of the distorting effect that political loyalty can have on one's acceptance and appreciation of the facts. (That this problem is a real one makes it all...
Epistemology and Politics
Posted on March 27, 2010Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist and health policy researcher at the University of Michigan, writes: "Studies have shown that people tend to seek out information that is consistent with their views; think of liberal fans of MSNBC and conservative devotees...
Another ministerial-exception decision
Posted on March 27, 2010Here's one, from the Ninth Circuit: The Religion Clauses of the First Amendment provide that ?Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.? U.S. Const. amend. I. These clauses require a ?ministerial...
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