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[Book Review Of] Closed: 99 Ways To Stop Abortion, By Joseph M. Scheidler, Mary O'Malley

The Linacre Quarterly

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[Book Review Of] The Psychology Of Self And Other, By Elizabeth R. Moberly, John F. Harvey

The Linacre Quarterly

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Letters..., Catholic Physicians' Guild

The Linacre Quarterly

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[Book Review Of] Christian Ethics And Imagination: A Theological Inquiry, By Philip S. Keane, S.S., Matthew Habiger

The Linacre Quarterly

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Justification In The Eastern Orthodox Churches (A Comparative Study), Eshetu Abate

Master of Sacred Theology Thesis

The topic of this Thesis, Justification in the Eastern Orthodox Churches, is prompted by the document which recently came out of the U.S. Lutheran-Roman Catholic Dialogue on the doctrine of Justification by faith alone, work which took more than five years ending in September 1983. To one who comes from the East, especially from Ethiopia, a country where half of the population is Orthodox, the reading of the publicity on this dialogue and its outcome raised the question: "How do the Orthodox Churches in the East think about justification by faith alone?" The incubation of this idea yielded the present …

Prophetic Consciousness: Obedience And Dissent In The Religious Life, Sandra Marie Schneiders

Jesuit School of Theology

Discipleship, as we all know, is a vocation to which one can never respond in a final and definitive way. It is a call to ongoing conversion, to an ever deeper appreciation of the mystery of Christ. To be a disciple is to incarnate the identity and mission of Jesus in our own personal, historical, and cultural context. For us, then, discipleship means living ever more deeply and effectively the mystery of Christ in the American Church of the late twentieth century.

There is a characteristic of our recent American Catholic experience that is at once glaringly evident and profoundly …

The Thrust Of Legal Education At The Catholic University Of America, 1895-1954, C. Joseph Nuesse

Miscellaneous Historical Documents

If the conventional measure of a generation in family life could be applied in tracing the history of an academic institution, it would be easy to delimit the scope of this lecture as devoted to the first two generations of the law school of The Catholic University of America. To be precise, however, it must be clear that it is the period from 1895 to 1954 that is under review. These were not fifty-nine years of glorious achievement. On the contrary, during these years, as will become evident, the school was several times near dissolution. The bright spots in its …

The Wife Of Bath And The Scholastic Concept Of Operatio, Joseph E. Grennen

Quidditas

The loathly lady of Chaucer's Wife of Bath's Tale delivers a lecture to her reluctant swain which is remarkably gracious and persuasive, although hardly unconventional. Her sentiments, which find a parallel in Dante's Convivio, may be summed up in a phrase: Virtue is the true nobility. True virtue, furthermore, is a legacy from Christ, not an inheritance passed on with titles and wealth. The chief difficulty facing a reader is to find a way of reconciling this view with the cynical, maverick personality established for Alice of Bath in her own prologue. We might suppose that Chaucer is here …

Book Review, Joel S. Newman

Notre Dame Law Review

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Disabled Newborns And The Federal Child Abuse Amendments: Tenuous Protection, Steven R. Smith

Faculty Scholarship

This Article first explores the scope of the problem of withholding lifesaving treatment from seriously impaired infants. Next, the Article examines the interests involved in decisions to withhold treatment and the rationales for them. It contends that there are limitations on parental child-rearing rights and suggests standards to define when treatment may be withheld. The Article then reviews recent efforts to protect disabled newborns and points out a shift in the focus of these efforts toward a reliance on child abuse and neglect laws. Next, the Article surveys the development of federal and state child abuse and neglect statutes. The …

Communication, Cultural Form And Theology, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

This essay explores some relationships between the areas of communication science and theology, beginning with a brief examination of what is called the 'cultural studies' model of communication and the institutional roles of communication in contemporary society. The second section presents a look at some models of communication interacting with theology in an earlier historical era, while the third reviews some contemporary models of communication within theology. The last section also examines the contemporary period but focusses on more specific projects.

The Unity Of The Virtues In Abelard's Dialogus, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

That a thinker discusses a topic is often noted, while how he discusses that topic is left insufficiently clear. A case in point is Peter Abelard, "who," D. E. Luscombe has claimed, "first in his time attempted a serious philosophical discussion of natural virtue and who first really put the human virtues upon the theological map." Despite continuing interest in Abelard, and his ethics in particular, little has been done to illuminate what he takes a virtue to be, how the virtues are interrelated, and how Abelard's account compares to other treatments of the virtues. This paper attempts, if only …

A Survey Of Recent Mariology, Eamon R. Carroll

Marian Studies

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Natural Law And Political Choice: The General Justification Defense – Criteria For Political Action And The Duty To Obey The Law, Kent Greenawalt

Catholic University Law Review

This address was delivered on April 15, 1986 at The Catholic University of America as the annual Pope John XXIII Lecture.

Disabled Newborns And The Federal Child Abuse Amendments: Tenuous Protection, Steven R. Smith

UC Law Journal

The recently enacted federal Child Abuse Amendments of 1984 seek to scrutinize closely parental decisions to withhold lifesaving treatment from seriously impaired newborns. Although the goal of this legislation is laudable, the mechanism it adopts offers only tenuous protection to newborns. This Article first explores the scope of the problem of withholding treatment. It then examines the interests involved in treatment decision-making, contending that there are limitations on parental child-rearing rights and suggesting standards to define when treatment may be withheld. After a survey of the development of federal and state child abuse and neglect statutes, the Article analyzes the …

To A Moral Certainty: Theories Of Knowledge And Anglo-American Juries 1600-1850, Barbara J. Shapiro

UC Law Journal

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Natural Law And Political Choice: The General Justification Defense – Criteria For Political Action And The Duty To Obey The Law, Kent Greenawalt

Faculty Scholarship

During most of this century, a distinct separation has existed between natural law perspectives and perspectives about the nature of law and about social choices that have dominated American law schools. One could find elaborations of natural law in Catholic law schools and periodicals, but these expressions exercised little influence on the mainstreams of legal thought. In the last two decades, non-Catholics have grown to realize that they have much to learn from natural law approaches, and natural lawyers have tried to enhance their own understandings by references to other perspectives. I am emboldened to proceed by my strong belief …

Dualistic Legal Phenomena And The Limitations Of Positivism, Gregory Silverman

Faculty Articles

Often, in a case of first instance, a judge will reach a decision by an appeal to legal principles. For example, in the 1889 case of Riggs v. Palmer a New York court had to decide whether a grandson who had murdered his grandfather could inherit under the will in which his grandfather had named him an heir. The statutes and rules of testamentary law did not prohibit the inheritance. The court, however, invoked the legal principle that no one should be permitted to profit by his own wrong and denied the claim to inheritance. The use of such principles …