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Russello on Conscience Clauses

Posted on January 20, 2010
Here is a thoughtful reflection by MOJ friend Gerald Russello re Martha Coakley's statements about conscience clauses.

A qualified defense of Pat Robertson

Posted on January 19, 2010
Thanks to an MoJ reader for passing along this post from a doctoral candidate in Caribbean history providing background on the Pat Robertson "pact with the devil" quote. (For earlier MoJ posts on the matter, see here, here, or here.)

Praise the Lord and Pass the Precision Aiming Solution

Posted on January 19, 2010
MoJ readers might find this ABC News story -- http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-military-weapons-inscribed-secret-jesus-bible-codes/story?id=9575794&page=1 -- which comes to my attention by way of the Leiter philosophy blog, to be of some interest. I don't know which is more telling of our times: (a) the...

Agreeing (twice) with Steve Shiffrin

Posted on January 19, 2010
Steve is quite right, in his recent home-schooling post, to make it clear that, in rejecting the sweeping, statist proposals of those who would outlaw home-schooling, we who believe in ordered-liberty-in-education do not and need not assert absolute immunity from...

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A "conservative anti-death-penalty movement?

Posted on January 19, 2010
Interesting: LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Roy Brown seems like a rarity - a conservative who's against the death penalty. But to Brown, a state senator and the 2008 Republican nominee for governor of Montana, the philosophy aligns perfectly with conservative...

Perry v. Schwarzenegger: questions from a reader

Posted on January 18, 2010
A reader of the Mirror of Justice has posed three questions to me regarding the challenge to California?s Proposition 8 that is currently being challenged in Federal District Court in San Francisco. The three questions are these: 1. Is there...

Dean John Garvey on Conscience

Posted on January 18, 2010
BC's dean, John Garvey, has this to say on conscience rights in the context of tomorrow's U.S. Senate race in his state.

Allen?s ?The Future Church? ? Trend One ? ?A World Church?

Posted on January 18, 2010
Allen?s first trend describes how over the course of the 20th century a ?tight identification between the West and Christianity? has ?disintegrated? and Catholicism has been turned ?upside-down.? In terms of numbers, at the beginning of the century, only 25%...

MOJ Discussion of John Allen's "The Future Church" Begins Today

Posted on January 18, 2010
Today we are opening our focused discussion of John Allen's new book, "The Future Church." Ten of us have signed up to post the lead blog on different chapter each week (for the most part in order, but note the...

Mies van der Rohe and Home Schooling

Posted on January 18, 2010
Hello All, A quick hear-hear to Steve's and Rick's recent posts on home schooling. It happens that all of the relatively few home-schooled folk whom I know are at least as high-performing on standard educational metrics as the most high-performing...

Home Schooling

Posted on January 18, 2010
It strikes me that the issue of home schooling is complicated. Some home schooling is very well done (with appropriate regard for the needs of children for opportunites to socialize with other children); some is not. It seems clear to...

Garvey on Conscience

Posted on January 18, 2010
As I read John Garvey, I believe he is contending that the Hyde Amendment is based on Madisonian principles. He is suggesting that persons should not be compelled to support ideologies to which they are opposed. I doubt this is...

"Virtual" March for Life

Posted on January 18, 2010
Can't be there in person? Try this.

A new bishop for Ft. Wayne-South Bend

Posted on January 18, 2010
Welcome to Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, the recently installed ninth bishop of the Diocese of Ft. Wayne-South Bend! Rocco (no surprise) has details on the installation, and also the full text of Bishop Rhoades' homily. Here's a bit: As I...

Nancy Pelosi, Scott Brown, 'Free Will,' & Abortion

Posted on January 18, 2010
Hello All, A couple of quick comments occasioned by our recent posts on Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Brown. First, on Archbishop Neiderauer's response to Speaker Pelosi's mourning her difference of opinion with the American bishops, it's not clear to me...

Another avenue for Haitian Relief

Posted on January 16, 2010
Those who may wish to provide material relief to our sisters and brothers in Haiti can contribute to the Jesuit Refugee Service, USA. The JRS's website that facilitates donations is here. In addition to financial aid, I am sure that...

More on the increasing (and troubling) hostility to home-schooling

Posted on January 16, 2010
Rob shared an (appropriately critical) post recently on Martha Fineman's new paper, Taking Children's Interests Seriously. As he (rightly) points out, the hostility toward private education and homeschooling, and Fineman's view that "public education should be mandatory and universal," rest...

Church Property and Religious Liberty

Posted on January 16, 2010
Christianity Today has this very helpful piece about the current round of church-property-dispute cases, and their importance to religious freedom. As the article describes, these cases often involve efforts by more conservative or orthodox communities to break away -- and...

"Let's Talk About Faith"

Posted on January 16, 2010
This recent op-ed, by Ross Douthat -- about the Hume / Buddhism / Tiger Woods / redemption / Christianity fracas -- is worth reading. A bit: . . . Many Christians have decided that the best way to compete in...

Some great news from New Jersey

Posted on January 16, 2010
No, it's not the announcement of another season of "The Sopranos." The New York Times reports (with some regret, I imagine), that "To Lead Schools, Christie Picks Voucher Advocate," Bret Schundler. According to the report, Schunder is "[t]he man once...

San Francisco's Archbishop responds to Rep. Pelosi on "free will"

Posted on January 16, 2010
As MOJ readers are probably aware, in a recent interview, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about her disagreements with the United States Catholic bishops concerning Church teaching. Speaker Pelosi replied, in part: ?I practically mourn this difference of opinion...

Notre Dame Task Force recommendations

Posted on January 16, 2010
The "Notre Dame Task Force on Supporting the Choice for Life" -- which I have referenced and discussed here on MOJ before -- has submitted some preliminary recommendations to the University's president, Fr. John Jenkins, which are designed to ?broaden...

Prevent the murder of children! Prohibit home schooling!

Posted on January 15, 2010
Martha Fineman has posted her new paper, Taking Children's Interests Seriously. Predictably, she laments our society's preoccupation with parental rights, particularly in the area of education. She argues that "public education should be mandatory and universal...

Weiler on the Trial of Jesus

Posted on January 15, 2010
The 23rd Annual Erasmus Lecture is being delivered by Prof. Joseph Weiler. The topic is "The Trial of Jesus." I've had the privilege of hearing Prof. Weiler speak on this subject, and he's amazing. If you are going to be...

A Case of Solidarity

Posted on January 15, 2010
In Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (par. 38), John Paul II famously wrote: When interdependence becomes recognized in this way, the correlative response as a moral and social attitude, as a "virtue," is solidarity. This then is not a feeling of vague...

a case for subsidiarity?

Posted on January 15, 2010
In response to Rob's question, I am reminded of the following provocative claim by my old teacher, Louis Dupre: "We now have reached a point in history where the principle of subsidiarity with respect to the common good must be...

Does citizenship matter in a disaster?

Posted on January 15, 2010
Kenneth Anderson and Peter Spiro raise a good question that should be of interest to Catholic legal theory. In a humanitarian crisis, what role should citizenship play? Specifically, why exactly should the U.S. government place a higher priority on evacuating...

Some news from across the pond, ...

Posted on January 15, 2010
... from MOJ friend and Trinity College Dublin law prof Gerry Whyte: "The decision of the UK Court of Appeal in Ladele v. London Borough of Islington in which it held that a Registrar of Marriages had to officiate at...

Another Effective Channel for Aid to Haiti

Posted on January 15, 2010
Hello Friends, Many thanks to John Breen for his thoughts on Haiti and for the stirring quote from John Paul II -- I'd forgotten how beautifully 'spot on' this passage is. Thanks also to Patrick and Rob for their recent...

More on Robertson

Posted on January 14, 2010
I appreciate Robby's comments on Pat Robertson, and just to clarify, by labeling him a "showman," I do not mean that Robertson is not sincere. I just mean that, given the controversies stirred up by his previous post-disaster statements, I...

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