Monday, February 24, 2014

"moral claims on moral grounds"

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     "The moral vocabulary that now prevails in the United States is less Marxist but no less vulgar, for it is just as adamant that al...
Saturday, February 15, 2014

Gregory on the failure to fish

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"One might decide to suspend judgment about a given intellectual issue in dispute — and indeed prudence often dictated the advisability...
Friday, February 14, 2014

Ben Jonson on abortion

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Oh, you live at court, And there's both loss of time and loss of sport In a great belly.  Write then on thy womb 'Of the not born...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

"Since friends have one mind and one heart, it does not seem that what one friend reveals to another is placed outside of his own heart".

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     "Now he sets down the true sign of friendship on his own part, which is that all that I have heard from my Father I have made know...
Saturday, February 1, 2014

"The freedom of each American citizen to make doctrinal claims has always greatly exceeded that of any pope."

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     Brad S. Gregory,  The unintended Reformation:  how a religious revolution secularized society  (Cambridge and London:  The Belknap Pres...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

Pope Francis: the Catholic university must do more than bear "witness . . . to the Church's moral teaching"; she must defend the Church's right to wield her in "defense of her freedom . . . to uphold that teaching as authoritatively proclaimed by the magisterium". (Or, at least, so, it would appear, the English.)

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" The vision which guided Father Edward Sorin and the first religious of the Congregation of Holy Cross in establishing the University ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

"no freedom of silence, either."

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"We know, of course, that there is no freedom of speech.  But few people realize that there is no freedom of silence, either.  Resident...