"The Holy See is not responsible for the day-to-day supervision, appointments and discipline of individual clerics," said Mark Chopko, general counsel for the U.S. [read post]

All we can do is honor that which they stood for, and fulfill in our words and deeds the ideal which they died for.On the Law of War and Just War Theory Blog, Professor Kenneth Anderson presents an excerpt from a paper in progress:Democratic legitimacy, what non-Americans think about American policy, and the war on terrorThe American people will not engage with the struggle against a transnational terrorist threat over the long run unless it is consonant with deep American values. [read post]