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11 Jun 2018, 8:19 am
Six of them are Roman Catholic, after all.)It also means that the impossibly fractured, highly partisan and irresponsible decision of the court below will stand in infamy as possibly the worst application of so-called "neutral principles" on record. [read post]
29 May 2018, 4:15 pm by Tom Smith
” Not the words you’d expect to hear from the head of the Roman Catholic Church. [read post]
28 May 2018, 8:51 am by Sandy Levinson
 I think it fair to say that the overwhelming Irish support for same-sex marriage was (correctly) taken as a sign that it really was an idea whose time had come (not to mention its signification as well of the basic collapse of the Roman Catholic Church as a near-hegemon in even traditionally "Catholic countries. [read post]
25 May 2018, 8:25 am by Victoria Kwan
” Thomas spoke about his years away from and eventual return to the Roman Catholic Church, urging the graduates to use their faith as a compass in a chaotic, fast-changing world: In an increasingly secular and nihilistic world, you will be faced with man-made panaceas. [read post]
21 May 2018, 8:45 am by Anthony Gaughan
Pope Francis announced on Saturday that Archbishop Oscar Romero will be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint this fall. [read post]
9 May 2018, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
The largest institution on the globe—the Catholic Church—is sitting on the greatest number of undisclosed sex abuse claims in the world while they keep telling us that they have established the “gold standard” of child protection. [read post]
8 May 2018, 7:42 am by Family Law
From the Diplomat: A major push to legalize divorce in the Philippines, one of the world’s most populous predominantly Roman Catholic countries, promises a showdown between the more conservative elements of the Catholic Church and the progressive wings of parliament... [read post]
8 May 2018, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Political considerations, however, led him to defer his reception into the Roman Catholic Church until he was on his deathbead in 1685. [read post]
3 May 2018, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
An estimated 150,000 of children were forced to attend the schools, many of which were operated by the Roman Catholic Church.But in March, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops said that while the Pope acknowledged the commission's findings and expressed regret for past wrongs, he "felt he could not personally respond. [read post]
1 May 2018, 12:00 pm
Around 1942, Bay View started to limit renters and owners to those “of the white race” and Christian faith, later restricting Roman Catholic membership to 10 percent or less. [read post]
30 Mar 2018, 3:34 pm
Other New Testament passages imply it is a place of torment for the unrighteous, leading to speculation that it may be divided into two very different sections....The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: "By the expression 'He descended into Hell', the Apostles' Creed confesses that Jesus did really die and through his death for us conquered death and the devil 'who has the power of death' (Hebrews 2:14). [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 3:36 pm
"... for its role in a Canadian system that forced generations of Indigenous children into boarding schools. [read post]
23 Mar 2018, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
While little of his work expressly invokes Christianity, his turns towards solidarity and public service in the area of public law and his development of the social function of property in the area of private law reveal a level of concordance with Roman Catholic thought in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
The Roman Catholic Church in the European Union has also objected that the legislation is an attack on religious freedom.....The bill is perceived as an anti-immigration issue directed against Muslims, Rabbi [Pinchas] Goldschmidt [President of the Conference of European Rabbis] said, and "we the Jews are the collateral damage. [read post]
27 Feb 2018, 12:11 pm by Tom Smith
In the remote Brazilian town of Tabatinga, João Souza da Silva helped construct the Roman Catholic church where he got married 31 years ago, a wedding that officially ended his boyhood dream of becoming a priest. [read post]
25 Feb 2018, 5:23 am by Howard Friedman
Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Armenian church leaders have closed the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (believed to be the site of Jesus' crucifixion and burial) in Jerusalem in protest of two legal moves by Israeli government officials. [read post]
20 Feb 2018, 4:56 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
Rafael Domingo (Emory University School of Law) has posted Penal Law in the Roman Catholic Church (Ecclesiastical Law Journal 20 (2018), Forthcoming) on SSRN. [read post]
19 Feb 2018, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
From SSRN:Jeremy Patrick, 'A La Carte' Spirituality and the Future of Freedom of Religion, (January 31, 2018).Rafael Domingo, Penal Law in the Roman Catholic Church, (Ecclesiastical Law Journal 20 (2018), Forthcoming).Nelson Tebbe, Conscience and Equality, (Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development (2018 Forthcoming)).Andrew P. [read post]