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White House: "An extra measure of evil" in Christopher Lane's killing 27 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
St. Augustine describes evil as the deprivation of good. Although I am usually on firmer footing when discussing matters of law rather than theology (caveat lector!), I believe that Augustine's unders...
"Is Secularism Unprincipled?" 27 Aug 2013 | 05:28 am
The concluding lines of this interesting post, by Ian Pollock ("Is Secularism Unprincipled?"), are both bracing and refreshing (if a bit troubling, too): Seen in this light, it is obvious why secular...
Cardinal Wuerl on Catholic schools and King's dream 27 Aug 2013 | 05:21 am
A really nice piece, here, by Cardinal Wuerl, on the occasion of the anniversary of King's March on Washington. (How sad that this wonderful anniversary was exploited for abortion-rights purposes by ...
The Weekly Number: "5 Advances in Understanding Religious Freedom" 27 Aug 2013 | 05:15 am
Really interesting numbers -- here -- from Pew. Some of them go against the conventional wisdom (e.g., those who are unaffiliated with a religious tradition tend to be older, not younger). Of partic...
The largeness of the Church 25 Aug 2013 | 04:55 am
I grew up in California, so little surprises me. During a recent stay in Berkeley, CA, I went to the Newman Center on a Monday, for Mass. The practice there at Newman Hall, of inviting the members o...
But there is a coherent jurisprudential argument… 24 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Like Patrick, I was surprised by Jody Bottum’s claim that there is no coherent jurisprudential claim against same-sex marriage (SSM). Since as early as 2000, a number of folks (on both sides of the...
Brennan on Perry on Bottum 24 Aug 2013 | 07:05 am
A recent it's-hard-to-know-what-to-call-it essay, mentioned still more recently on MOJ, contends that "there is no coherent jurisprudential argument against same-sex marriage." No coherent jurisprud...
"A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage" [UPDATED] 24 Aug 2013 | 02:30 am
[Commonweal reports:] Joseph Bottum, former chief editor of First Things, has taken to the pages of Commonweal to state a Catholic's case for same-sex marriage. In this thoughtful and personal...
A plea to use the tools in the International Religious Freedom Act 23 Aug 2013 | 05:08 pm
My colleagues and I on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom are working together across party lines to push for the full deployment of the tools provided by the International Religio...
Panel on Religious Symbols, Public Reason, the State, et alia 23 Aug 2013 | 04:34 pm
I was fortunate to participate in an excellent panel at William & Mary yesterday, as part of the wonderfully massive and variegated International Consortium for Law and Religion Studies conference in ...
