Late last week, Prof. Rob Vischer from the Univ. of St. Thomas School of Law posted his forthcoming essay on the application of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ 2004 statement “Catholics in Political Life” to honors conferred by Catholic law schools. The Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy will print later this spring [...]
When Archbishop Timothy Dolan was transferred from Milwaukee to New York, it represented a tremendous loss for the entire Wisconsin community. Whispers in the Loggia, chronicler of ecclesiastical intrigue, makes the following note today: And, lastly, nine months after the archdiocese of Milwaukee fell vacant on Dolan’s Eastward move, a recent spike of buzz suggests [...]
As some of you may already know, I have been taking night classes at Georgetown University Law Center here in Washington (towards an LL.M.). Georgetown is a popular place of late – President Obama visited the main campus last week, and Vice President Biden visited the Law Center campus today. VP Biden was visiting to [...]
LifeSiteNews.com reports that the University of Notre Dame has provided the following statement from university president the Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., to members of the Board of Trustees, regarding the controversy with President Obama.
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President Obama has been selected to receive an honorary doctorate of laws and to serve as the keynote speaker at the University of Notre Dame’s commencement in May. Catholic lay leaders are already raising red flags (Austin Ruse, NRO, Deal Hudson, Cardinal Newman Society, LifeSiteNews) about the selection, given Obama’s strong support for FOCA, etc. [...]
First off, congratulations and Godspeed to Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, recently appointed by Pope Benedict as the archbishop of New York. I have met Archbishop Dolan on a few occasions and have seen him speak several other times. Everyone comments on his wonderful personality, his gregarious nature, his friendly rapport with the parishioners. All of [...]
Over on Lynn v. Sekulow blog at BeliefNet, Rev. Barry Lynn from Americans United for Separation of Church and state is discussing the Values Voters Summit. He writes, “Speaker Star Parker referred to public schools as ‘cesspools’ and claimed that taxing the rich was a ‘violation of the Scripture’.” I was at the Values Voters [...]
Not all issues are created equal. This is true for voters generally: no voter goes into the voting booth weighing a candidate’s stance on our foreign relations with Latvia the same as what to do about the economy. But this statement is particularly true for Catholics: not all issues are equal. On some issues, there [...]
Those of you at Marquette know that a favorite cause for the liberals on campus is the Catholic Worker Movement. Marquette’s Raynor Library is home to the Catholic Worker – Dorothy Day papers collection. Marquette University Press recently published a volume on Day and her Catholic Worker Movement, published a collection of essays in 2000, [...]
And now, a brief interruption in our secular political programming for some ecclesiastical politics. Yesterday, Bishop David L. Ricken took the chair as bishop of Green Bay Wisconsin. In a ceremony involving Cardinals Maida of Detroit and George of Chicago, the diocese was passed from the apostolic administratorship of Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan to the [...]
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