(866) 635-2689 for Personal Injury or (866) 635-9402 for Criminal Defense
Find a Local Lawyer
Divorce (866) 635-6190
Personal Injury (866) 635-2689
Criminal Defense (866) 635-9402
Mirror of Justice 
Dedicated to the development of Catholic legal theory.
Post Frequency: 46.4/day Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:50:36 Recent Entries: 3708
Go to Mirror of Justice, find other Religion & Law blogs, or browse all law blogs.
*Ruled* by a text?
Posted on July 15, 2010And so the thot plickens (and other Spoonerisms) . . . My response to Rick's rich questions begins, as Rick knows (from, inter alia, the public discussions many of us had at the recent "Annual Roundtable on Law and Religion"at...
"Conservatives' default positivism"
Posted on July 13, 2010Patrick and I have talked often about the matters discussed in his fine review of Hadley Arkes' new book, and so he knows that I persist in thinking that Justice Scalia is right to insist that *federal* judges, who get...
Judicial access to the natural law?
Posted on July 13, 2010Hadley Arkes's new book, Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths (Cambridge, 2010), raises (in that elegant Arkes way) lots of interesting questions, including the one about judicial access to the natural law. Arkes and I disagree, to some extent, on how...
Are Catholics afraid to speak out?
Posted on July 13, 2010Fr. James Martin believes that Catholics, including bishops, are more afraid of speaking out these days that in past eras: Today in the Catholic Church almost any disagreement to almost any degree with almost any church leader on almost any...
The weightier questions of life (and the wisdom of Pixar)
Posted on July 13, 2010I don't know if it's more of a comment on my own state of mind or on the state of Hollywood, but the only films that stand a good chance of bringing me to tears these days are from Pixar....
So long, MCA!
Posted on July 13, 2010As a longtime member of various YMCAs, I'm interested in the institution's history and ongoing health. As a Christian and as a longtime fan of civil society, I'm interested in the gradual (or not so gradual) secularization process that hits...
In answer to Rick's question
Posted on July 13, 2010I agree with my friend Rick that what judges (or other legal officials) should do is principally a function of their office, that is, of what the people have charged them with doing. In the case of federal judges, this...
The ACLU v. Catholic hospitals?
Posted on July 13, 2010Michael Sean Winters, at NCR, passes on a story that "[t]he ACLU is mounting an effort to force Catholic hospitals to perform abortions in certain cases and provide other forms of care that violate the Church?s ethical norms." More here....
Aidan O'Neill on the U.K. Supreme Court's recent asylum decision
Posted on July 13, 2010MOJ-friend Aidan O'Neill has posted some "reflections" on the recent decision by the U.K. Supreme Court regarding homosexual asylum seekers. Our own Michael S. discussed the case in this post, and in this one. As Aidan notes, one of the...
The Teresa Lewis case in Virginia
Posted on July 12, 2010A friend and former colleague of mine is working on the case of Teresa Lewis, who is the only woman on death row in Virginia. It is likely that an execution date will be set for the Fall. The case...
Relativism, conscience, and moral obligation
Posted on July 12, 2010In June, I offered some reflections on relativism, conscience, and moral obligation in a commencement address at New St. Andrews College. In light of our recent discussion on MoJ, I am posting the core of my remarks below. The witness...
Links to my Camino de Santiago blog posts
Posted on July 11, 2010If you have been reading MOJ for some time, you know that I walked 500 miles of the Camino de Santiago last October. I have been asked to link all my Camino blog posts in one place. They are linked...
Relativism, Subjectivity, Conscience, and the Church
Posted on July 11, 2010The subject line of this posting reflects issues that we at the Mirror of Justice have been discussing and will most likely continue to address for some time. Volumes could be written on these topics individually and collectively as each...
"The Signpost at the Crossroads"
Posted on July 11, 2010Jody Bottum's essay, "The Signpost at the Crossroads", is in the new print issue of First Things (count me as someone who, so far, likes the re-design), and is also available here. The core proposal of the piece is straightforward:...
The Fourth Inquiry
Posted on July 10, 2010Some issues are sufficiently complicated that a blog is a woefully suboptimal venue for doing them justice. And yet MOJ readers are certainly entitled to wonder what I think about the questions raised by my earlier post and Robby's understandable...
Prothero's Characterization of the Dalai Lama
Posted on July 10, 2010Rick wrote a post yesterday titled The Dalai Lama is Wrong, quoting the argument made by Stephen Prothero in his new book. I haven't yet read Prothero's book and don't know from where he draws his conclusions about the Dalai...
Reflections of a "Catholic Anti-Catholic"
Posted on July 10, 2010NCR Today introduces the piece with this: _________________________________________________________________________________________ "A fundamental rule of his Catholicism, says Charles P. Pierce, Boston Globe magazine writer (and the guy many may know as the wise-cracking half of a weekly conversation on the NPR show...
Carolyn Forche's commencement address at the (Jesuit) University of Scranton
Posted on July 10, 2010Do yourself a favor: take the time to read this. (HT: dotCommonweal.)
The University of Illinois, Marquette University, and academic freedom
Posted on July 10, 2010The story out of Illinois is, as John Breen observes, "troubling." One hopes that the wrong described in the story will be righted. And, one hopes that the many news outlets -- especially the secular ones -- that reported earnestly...
An MOJ reader kindly calls this to our attention:
Posted on July 09, 2010A ?DICTATORSHIP OF RELATIVISM?? Symposium in Response to Cardinal Ratzinger?s Last Homily In memory of Clifford Geertz Contributors: Gianni Vattimo, Julia Kristeva, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, David Bloor, Christopher Norris, Daniel Boyarin, Jeffrey M. Perl, Kenneth J...
A Troubling Development at the University of Illinois
Posted on July 09, 2010See the story here. Apparently Kenneth Howell, an adjunct professor teaching a course on Catholicism at the University of Illinois was fired (or more correctly not retained) for teaching what the Church teaches about homosexual acts, namely, that they are...
Phil Bess weighs in on the suburbs . . .
Posted on July 09, 2010Here's urbanist-before-it-was-"new" Philip Bess, commenting on my recent link to "A Defense of the Suburbs": Poulos's full argument is more nuanced than the excerpt you have quoted; but his argument requires even more careful definition and nuance then he has...
Response to Aidan O?Neill
Posted on July 09, 2010In response to my question, ?What gives this court the authority to determine whether a particular religious interpretation is misguided?," Aidan says: I think that by using the word ?misguided? the court is not suggesting that the views expressed are...
Where I *do* agree with Vattimo
Posted on July 09, 2010Misunderstanding is predictable here, so I hesitate to say, but will say nonetheless, that in my view, there is only one invariable, only one "absolute": "I give you a new commandment: love one another; you must love one another just...
Haaretz: Pope Pius XII saved thousands of Jews
Posted on July 09, 2010Haaretz reports: New research has found that Pope Pius XII may have arranged the exodus of about 200,000 Jews from Germany just three weeks after Kristallnacht, the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday. The research is being carried out by Dr....
Of blog rankings, and MOJ's "stickiness"
Posted on July 09, 2010Prof. Paul Caron has posted the latest law-blog rankings here, and MOJ continues to do well. That said, I really would like to overtake the good people at the "Wills, Trusts, and Estates" blog, so everyone take a few minutes...
"In Defense of the Suburbs"
Posted on July 09, 2010Regular MOJ readers know that I, and a number of MOJ-friends, are interested in questions of urbanism, and of the connection between the built environment and authentic Christian community. That said, check out this post, "In Defense of the Suburbs",...
From Michael
Posted on July 09, 2010Michael has kindly posted something "for Rick" written by Gianni Vattimo. I'm afraid, though, I'm in the position of the person who opens a gift but is not quite sure what it is. I'd be grateful to Michael if he...
The Dalai Lama is wrong
Posted on July 09, 2010So argues Stephen Prothero (Boston University) here: . . .I know that persons of goodwill are supposed to pretend that the world's religions are different paths up the same mountain. To say otherwise is to invite religious warfare and to...
For Rick
Posted on July 09, 2010[An excerpt from Gianni Vattimo's introduction to the symposium I referenced in an earlier post. (On Gianni Vattimo, here.)]Several contributions to this symposium question the definition of relativism that the homily implies. But if Ratzinger?s intention had been precision of...
Previous | Next
The Justice Mills Lawyer’s Relief Act of 2007 or Multiple Avenues of Appeal of a Comprehensive Permit Still Available.
Topics: Administrative Appeal; Zoning Appeal; Mootness; Housing Ap...
Enlarging Time to Appeal Land Use Decisions in the Interests of Justice
In Gregory v. Borough of Avalon, the Appellate Division evaluated ...
Mirror International Prenuptial Agreements
We frequently recommend mirror prenuptial agreements for people wi...
Anna Nicole Smith's Legal Troubles
Court cases and legal issues related to Anna Nicole Smith
Personal information/online harassment?
Quit talking with people on message boards that support these activities. The se...
Is there a time limit where someone can't be convicted of a sexual crime after the child has told someone?
The statute of limitations can differ from state to state. Look into it by conta...
My children's school is falsely charging me with truancy. The local district justice works for the school in the most blatently open way. And his wife works for the district, too! They have violated private health record
I am no lawer by any means, so I would love for someone to verify what I have to...
#1 Online Legal Resource
On 08-25 at 15:46PM
Acute perpendicular parking #NYPD #NYFD
On 08-18 at 22:18PM
Parallel parking gone bad. Too much gas UES NYC
On 08-18 at 21:41PM
UES NYC
On 08-18 at 21:25PM
Twitter suspends journalist critical of broadcast partner's coverage on dubious grounds @guyadams #nbcfail #twitterfail
On 07-30 at 17:57PM
Model example of 1st Amendment suppression by the People of New York City's Michael Bloomberg #OWS #NYPD
On 07-12 at 21:07PM
AG Holder lackadaisical on Operation in our Sites domain name seizures & RIAA lobbied free speech suppression @dajaz1
On 06-08 at 22:44PM
Why is the Catholic Church going to court over Obama contraception policy? @NewYorker commentary
On 05-31 at 10:08AM
Monks sue Louisiana for right to sell caskets made from forrest destroyed by Katrina
On 05-31 at 07:47AM
Are the abortion ultrasound laws headed for the Supreme Court?
On 05-15 at 21:52PM
Personal information/online harassment?
Quit talking with people on message boards that support these activities. The se...
Is there a time limit where someone can't be convicted of a sexual crime after the child has told someone?
The statute of limitations can differ from state to state. Look into it by conta...
My children's school is falsely charging me with truancy. The local district justice works for the school in the most blatently open way. And his wife works for the district, too! They have violated private health record
I am no lawer by any means, so I would love for someone to verify what I have to...
 |
|
Contact Us | About Us | Celebrity Law Blog |
Our Partners | Disclaimer
| Law Blog Directory
| Law Jobs
| Law Tweets
| GoDaddy Hosting
All original material � 1999-2011 by USLaw.com. |