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Think Biff Tannen forcing Marty McFly’s farther George to do Biff’s work for him in the “Back to the Future” series, or the demanding and intimidating Miranda Priestly from “The Devil Wears Prada,” or stereotypical horrible boss Bill Lumbergh from “Office Space. [read post]
19 Dec 2023, 6:43 am by Bettina Hindin, Esq.
  1 “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an exclusive interview on January 24, 2023, with Tuesday with The Associated Press.The post In Landmark Ruling Pope Francis Approves Priestly Blessings for Same-sex Couples (Under Certain Circumstances) first appeared on Offit Kurman. [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 6:21 am
    To my great delight, I was asked to review Jan Broekman's brilliant new work, Knowledge in Change: The Semiotics of Cognition and Conversation (Springer Nature, 2023). [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 2:08 am by Frank Cranmer
Though he did not make a complaint about that, one of his complaints of direct discrimination was the delay in allowing him to go forward to priestly ordination while reasonable adjustments for a perceived disability of autism were investigated [50]. [read post]
3 Aug 2023, 8:55 pm by Lawrence Solum
I then asked ChatGPT 4.0 “Now that you have seen all these texts, do you think a man who is a priest and in a same sex marriage can perform the priestly blessing as a matter of halacha. [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 1:13 am by Frank Cranmer
Thus Malcolm Brown, Director of Public Affairs for the Church of England, in a special issue of Ecclesiastical Law Journal in 2019, argues that the Coronation is ‘not just a bit of invented pomp’ but a ‘solemn religious rite in which the Church of England, in its priestly role representing God who was incarnate on earth in Christ, confers upon the monarch her temporal and spiritual authority’.[4] Similarly, Adrian Hastings asserts that Establishment… [read post]
19 Mar 2023, 4:01 am by Frank Cranmer
Celibacy in the Western Church is a temporary prescription: I don’t know if it is resolved one way or another, but it is provisional in this sense – it is not eternal like priestly ordination, which is forever, whether you like it or not. [read post]
5 Mar 2023, 8:18 am
  In theocracies, the answer is also simple: it is for the priestly caste, in their interpretation and invocation of the divine, through which such  efforts must be undertaken and in and through which such interpretations (always consistent with the eternal word but subject to the vagaries of human perception) may be undertaken. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 9:28 am by Unknown
By Anne Sherry, J.D.The First Circuit affirmed a victory for the SEC against a hedge fund adviser charged with conducting a short-and-distort scheme. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 8:18 am by Jon Shazar - Dealbreaker
The post Priestly Hedge Fund Manager Needs God’s Absolution, Because He’s Not Getting It From The Courts appeared first on Above the Law. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 11:18 am by David Pocklington
The declaration, drawn up in 2014 ahead of legislation paving the way for the consecration of women as bishops, sets out the arrangements for parishes that seek the priestly or episcopal ministry of men on grounds of theological conviction. [read post]
6 Oct 2022, 6:15 am
We're told "He’s famous for his 'Holt-isms' (little pieces of friendly priestly advice) and for sending thoughtful notes to encourage the brothers in their work. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 9:24 am
With its odd, priestly culture, the court is particularly susceptible to this sort of veneration. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 8:08 am by Howard Friedman
However the court, relying on RLUIPA as a basis, resolved the remaining areas of disagreement: (1) The inmate may be in a wheelchair rather than a restraint chair so he can fully participate in the tonsure ceremony; (2) the priest may be at the inmate's head during the execution so he can place a priestly stole over his head. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 5:36 pm
I am delighted to share the video recording of the  event recently sponsored by the Penn State Law Federalist Society: "Natural Law and the US Constitutional Order" which was held at Penn State law 12 April 2022. [read post]
2 Apr 2022, 8:15 am
   The deep embedding of natural law theories in the formation of American constitutionalism and its expression in written law (then elaborated by the exercise of an interpretive priestly function by its courts) is well known (Edward S. [read post]
2 Feb 2022, 6:02 am by Eugene Volokh
But in a society dedicated to the rule of law, judges are not a priestly class of elite rulers. [read post]