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Two upcoming lectures of interest in the Oklahoma City-Norman area

Posted on March 22, 2010
On Thursday, March 25 (7:30pm in the Dick Bell Courtroom, OU College of Law), Notre Dame Political Science Professor, Daniel Philpott, will present a lecture entitled "Justice After Evil: A Catholic Ethic of Political Reconcialition." On Thursday, April 8 (5pm...

Obama's Executive Order on Abortion Subsidization

Posted on March 22, 2010
At NRO, Yuval Levin offers an analysis of the Executive Order that Bart Stupak obtained from President Obama in return for his support for the health bill. It is, to say the least, not reassuring. Yuval's bottom line: the Executive...

"Natural Law" and "far right Reconstructionist extremism!"

Posted on March 21, 2010
Those of us working in the field of natural law theory sometimes encounter bizarre and even grotesque misunderstandings or misrepresentations of what natural law theory is all about. (I tried to clear up some of these in my 2007 John...

The effect of "universal health care" on abortion

Posted on March 21, 2010
As Bob Hockett and I have been discussing, any conscientious, faithful Catholic who hopes to arrive at a defensible position -- as a legislator, or as a citizen -- on the current health-care proposal needs to not only be sure...

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Pending Executive Order on Health Care Bill

Posted on March 21, 2010
Stephen Crowley/The New York Times [From the NYT:] The White House released text on Sunday of a pending executive order that will reaffirm the health care measure's "consistency with longstanding restrictions on the use of federal funds for abortion." This...

More Details on Why Pro-Life Advocate Steve Schneck of CUA Supports the Health Insurance Reform Bill

Posted on March 20, 2010
Greetings Again, All, Steve Schneck of CUA has posted a thoughtful reply, replete with detailed narrative of his involvement (which he humbly describes as 'very limited') in the course of negotiations over the House and Senate health insurance reform bills,...

Speaking of "the demonization of some companies and industries"

Posted on March 20, 2010
"One way or another, the fate of health care reform is going to be decided in the next few days. If House Democratic leaders find 216 votes, reform will almost immediately become the law of the land. If they don?t,...

Now we know for sure: Obama is merely human! GO KENTUCKY!!!!!

Posted on March 20, 2010
Kansas, Villanova Bust Obama's Men's Bracket NEW YORK (AP) -- For everyone who picked Kansas to win the men's NCAA basketball title, the president feels your pain.President Barack Obama's bracket was busted Saturday when the Jayhawks, the tournament's top seed,...

For me, double effect is relevant, but does not settle it: A response to Bob

Posted on March 19, 2010
Thanks again, to Bob, for his having taken the lead in helping us all think through the health-insurance debate. To be sure, the debate will continue, in many contexts. Bob says, in his recent post, that "double effect settles it."...

Some news from our friend Pasquale Annicchino

Posted on March 19, 2010
MOJ friend Pasquale Annicchino, Junior Fellow in the Law and Religion Programme at University College London, writes to tell us: "We are launching the University College London Human Rights Law Review 2009. Judge Christos Rozakis will deal with the core...

Haldane: "Putting Ethics Back Together Again"

Posted on March 19, 2010
John Haldane suggests, at Public Discourse, that "[m]uch of our moral confusion comes from our failure to find a replacement for the Judaeo-Christian outlook that once animated the West. We need, and generally now lack, a philosophical understanding of human...

What I admire about Obama, Emmanuel, and Pelosi

Posted on March 19, 2010
In many ways, I'm the opposite of an admirer of Barack Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, and Nancy Pelosi. But I have to admit to a certain admiration for the toughness (one might say ruthlessness) with which they are prosecuting their political...

Bill Saunders on the health bill and abortion

Posted on March 19, 2010
My dear friend, Harvard Law School classmate, and godson Bill Saunders of Americans United for Life has dedicated his career to the defense of victims of human rights violations---born and unborn---from Shanghai to Saudi Arabia and from Sudan to Seattle...

Is it "the most abortion-expansive piece of legislation ever to reach the floor of the House"?

Posted on March 19, 2010
Today David O'Steen and Douglas Johnson of the National Right to Life Committee publicly released a letter they have sent to all members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging them to vote against the Senate-passed health care bill now...

Just to Clarify, 'For Me' Double Effect Settles It: And another 'Thank You' to Rick

Posted on March 19, 2010
Greetings Again, All, And many warm thanks to Rick for his thoughtful post. I think, a propos Rick's reflections, that I might do well quickly to emphasize a bit more some of what I do mean, and some of what...

"On Holy Ground"

Posted on March 18, 2010
My friend Mary O'Callaghan has an incredibly powerful piece, up at The Catholic Thing, called "Down Syndrome: On Holy Ground." It is amazing -- though, to those of us who know her, not surprising -- that she is able to...

Fr. Hesburgh laments Senate's decision to kill school choice in D.C.

Posted on March 18, 2010
Here is Fr. Ted's op-ed, published after the Senate -- on an almost party-line vote -- rejected Sen. Lieberman's efforts to save D.C.'s Opportunity Scholarship Program. This rejection is repulsive, and represents the worst kind of pandering to unworthy interests,...

A book ideally suited to us at MOJ, it would seem

Posted on March 18, 2010
NYT BOOKS | March 17, 2010 Books of The Times: Renewing an Old Idea: Common Good By DWIGHT GARNER Tony Judt's new book is a dying man's sense of a dying idea: the notion that the state can play a...

A big "ministerial exception" decision in the Ninth Circuit

Posted on March 18, 2010
The invaluable Prof. Friedman reports: In Alcazar v. Corporation of the Catholic Archbishop of Seattle, (9th Cir., March 16, 2010), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed under the "ministerial exception" doctrine claims by two Catholic seminarians who alleged...

Back to the Tradition: For Me, Double Effect Settles It -- We Should Embrace the Health Insurance Reform Legislation

Posted on March 18, 2010
Hello Again, All, Quite a few have been commenting in response to recent posts here reporting new developments in the unfolding debate, among Catholics and others, about the pending health insurance reform legislation. A surprising number of these comments, from...

Top TPM Story: Catholics Divided Over Senate Bill

Posted on March 18, 2010
Story here: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/showdown-on-abortion-catholic-groups-faceoff-in-final-health-care-fight.php

I guess we're social beings after all . . .

Posted on March 18, 2010
From the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (para. 149): Human nature . . . is based on a relational subjectivity, that is, in the manner of a free and responsible being who recognizes the necessity of integrating...

One More on Legislative Procedure: Don Wolfensberger, of Roll Call and the Woodrow Wilson Center, on History of 'Deem & Pass'

Posted on March 18, 2010
Here: http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1412&fuseaction=topics.publications&doc_id=190504&group_id=180829 Please note that Mr. Wolfensberger is also former staff director for the House Rules Committee

More on Fr. Araujo's & My Colloquy on Legislative Procedure: Norm Ornstein, of American Enterprise Institute, on 'Deem & Pass'

Posted on March 18, 2010
Here: http://blog.american.com/?p=11467

Catholic Hospitals for the Health Insurance Reform Bill

Posted on March 17, 2010
Here: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HEALTH_OVERHAUL_ABORTION?SITE=TXHAR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Nuns for the Bill

Posted on March 17, 2010
Mar 17, 10:14 AM EDT Catholic nuns urge passage of Obama's health bill By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- Catholic nuns are urging Congress to pass President Barack Obama's health care plan, in an unusual public break...

Some interesting news from the legislative front

Posted on March 17, 2010
NYT online, March 17, 2010, 11:55 am Stupak Ally in House Approves Senate Abortion Restrictions By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN Representative Dale Kildee, Democrat of Michigan and a strong opponent of abortion, announced on Wednesday that he was satisfied with the...

Thanks for Rick's Further Thoughts, and a Few Observations on the Legislative Process for Father Araujo

Posted on March 17, 2010
Hello again, All, And many thanks to Rick for his further thoughts. It's lovely to see that we're once again more or less on the same page, even if understandably breaking a bit differently on how some of the inherently...

Stop evangelizing!

Posted on March 17, 2010
In the New York Times, Robert Wright complains that Christian missionaries are at least partially responsible for Christian-Muslim tension when they try to establish common ground with Muslims in order to bring them to Jesus. Some of the missionaries even...

Steve Schneck, of CUA, on the Proposed Health Insurance Reform Legislation

Posted on March 17, 2010
Hello again, All, Steve Schneck, Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at CUA, is one of the signatories to the pro-life letter in support of the health insurance reform bill that I posted earlier. That post...

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