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25 Nov 2020, 7:00 am by ernst
A Question of Freedom asks us to reckon with the moral problem of slavery and its legacies in the present day.The New York Times review, which hails the book as "a rich, roiling history that Thomas recounts with eloquence and skill," is here. [read post]
4 Nov 2020, 9:02 pm by David S. Kemp and Charles E. Binkley
The film describes the life and the teaching of Pope Francis and contains numerous interviews with Francis himself, as well as others close to him.In the film, Pope Francis states, “Homosexual people have the right to be in a family. [read post]
3 Nov 2020, 11:39 pm by Marty Lederman
Later this morning, the Supreme Court will hear argument in the most significant Religion Clause case of the Term, Fulton v. [read post]
24 Oct 2020, 3:42 pm by Chuck Cosson
  For example, Vallor writes that, to make progress towards better ethics for technology use, we must first enhance the moral capacity of human beings and establish the value of moral goods over the “immediate, subjective and often arbitrary preferences of private individuals. [read post]
12 Oct 2020, 8:05 pm by Marty Lederman
”  And then, just this past Saturday, Pope Francis issued an encyclical letter that not only explained why the death penalty is categorically inadmissible, but also called upon “[a]ll Christians and people of good will” to “work not only for the abolition of the death penalty, legal or illegal, in all its forms, but also to work for the improvement of prison conditions, out of respect for the human dignity of persons deprived of their freedom. [read post]
4 Oct 2020, 7:14 pm
 On the anniversary of St Francis of Assisi's death, Pope Francis celebrates Mass before the Saint's tomb and signs his Encyclical "Fratelli tutti". [read post]
21 Sep 2020, 11:49 am by William Ford, Anna Salvatore
" The subcommittee will hear testimony from Adam Hickey, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's National Security Division; Clyde Wallace, the deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division; Steve Francis, the head of the Global Trade Investigations Division at U.S. [read post]
8 Sep 2020, 10:03 am by William Ford, Anna Salvatore
" The committee will hear testimony from Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, and Vice Adm. [read post]
27 Aug 2020, 11:01 am by Aviezer Tucker
And those who did speak had apparently little more than platitudes to offer, often culminating with the dubiously moral defense of what Applebaum colloquially calls “whataboutism”—tu quoque. [read post]
3 Aug 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
, Catholics and Capital Punishment: Do Pope Francis's Teachings Matter in Policy Preferences? [read post]
7 Jul 2020, 8:24 am by Eugene Volokh
But this needed reckoning has also intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity. [read post]
6 Jul 2020, 9:44 am by Schachtman
Becklake, “In Memoriam 2003: Francis Douglas Kelly Liddell. [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
From SSRN:Justin Aimonetti & Christian Talley, Religion as Sword, But Not as Shield: Rectifying the Estrangement of Environmentalism and Religious Liberty, (Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Forthcoming).Lakshman Guruswamy, Global Energy Poverty: the Relevance of Faith and Reason, (Belmont Law Review, Vol. 7, Issue 2, pp. 199-244 (2020).Patrick McKinley Brennan, John Noonan on Development of Moral Doctrine and Capital Punishment: A Cautionary Tribute from the Time of Pope… [read post]
12 Mar 2020, 6:44 pm
Leonard Francis Taylor (National Univ. of Ireland, Galway) has published Catholic Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights (Cambridge Univ. [read post]
20 Dec 2019, 7:09 am by Jack Sharman
For your consideration, here are a few books I enjoyed in 2019: Francis Bacon, Essays — Mordant seventeenth-century observations on the critical things.David Brooks, The Second Mountain — Second vocations and the moral life. [read post]
19 Dec 2019, 4:30 pm by Jacob Sapochnick
Marijuana Violations Constitute Bar to Good Moral Character Toward the end of April 2019, USCIS issued policy guidance clarifying that the consumption of marijuana remains a violation of federally controlled substance law, and any marijuana violations are a conditional bar to establishing good moral character for naturalization purposes, even where that conduct would not be found to be an offense under state law. [read post]
5 Dec 2019, 10:34 am by Eugene Volokh
" 2 Francis Wharton, A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States 850 (7th ed. 1874). [read post]