As the world faces the unprecedented effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, thorny moral questions are arising. From every level and sector of society, people are
asking: What is the right thing to do? From mundane issues such as how much toilet paper is too much toilet paper, to the life-and-death decisions being made in hospitals [...]
In National Affairs, William Haun has a worth-reading essay called "Religious Liberty and the Common Good." He opens with this: Legal and cultural debates involving religious
liberty are converging toward a single question: whether free religious exercise is part of the common good, or what might now be called a society's overall well-being. [...]
Putting aside the discomfort it causes when things that happened just yesterday turn out to have happened 25 years ago . . . Here are Pope Francis's general-audience remarks
on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of The Gospel of Life. [...]
In the latest/current issue of National Affairs (an excellent publication, IMHO), there's a good essay by Ryan Anderson called Proxy Wars Over Religion. A bit: The past
decade has witnessed some intense battles over religious liberty. But when you consider the character of those battles, it's often hard to avoid the conclusion that [...]
Congratulations to my friend and colleague, Carter Snead, on his forthcoming (timely, important) book, What It Means To Be Human. As longtime MOJ readers know [Ed.: All
too well, Rick; you never shut up about it.] The issue of moral anthropology is at the heart and foundation of any plausible account of "Catholic Legal Theory." [...]
Experts and pundits are already weighing in as to how the COVID-19 pandemic might change the landscape of higher education. While the results of this pandemic might prove
to be financially devastating, I'm not quite ready to agree that it will directly cause any radical change in the way most Americans view universities and the value [...]
Press Release Can Health Care Providers Discriminate Against COVID-19 Patients on Basis of Age or Disability? Thomas More Society & Freedom of Conscience Defense Fund Warn:
Age or Disability-Based Denials Violate Rights Media contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312.422.1333, tc@tcpr.net (March 23, 2020 – Rancho Santa Fe, California) Current [...]
As citizens concerned about “flattening the curve” of the impact of the Corona virus, especially for our most vulnerable populations, here in my Maryland Focolare community
house we are hunkered down indoors, pretty much emerging only for essential groceries and a socially distanced walk in the neighborhood. As we stayed home yesterday [...]
The International Law and Religion Moot Court is a competition organized by the Brazilian Center of Studies in Law and Religion that will take place in Uberlandia, Brazil,
between 16 and 18 of June 2020. The Competition is designed to contribute to the training of law students in subjects related to International Human Rights Law as [...]
