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March 2025

March 12, 2025

Religious Freedom and Abortion

Since the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s...

September 2023

September 01, 2023

What’s So Special About Religious Liberty? Law, Philosophy, and Serving God

Earlier this year I published an article in the Civil Rights Law Journal, a perodical...

January 2023

January 06, 2023

New Paper: Dignitatis Humanae: Navigating the Legacy of Vatican II

On January 19, 2023 I will be delivering an invited paper at the annual meeting...

April 2022

April 18, 2022

Is it Time to Rethink the School Prayer Cases?

Since arriving at Baylor in Fall 2003 I have taught the course "Law and Religion...

June 2021

June 03, 2021

Lemon v. Kurtzman at 50

I just published an essay over at Law & Liberty on the 50th anniversary of...

September 2020

September 11, 2020

Gotta Serve Somebody? Religious Liberty, Freedom of Conscience, and Religion as Comprehensive Doctrine

That's the title of an article I recently published in the journal, Studies in Christian...

April 2014

April 13, 2014

My chapter in the new book, Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith

Northern Illinois University Press has just published Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

My new article in Ratio Juris: “Justificatory Liberalism and Same-Sex Marriage”

Earlier this week I was informed that my article, "Justificatory Liberalism and Same-Sex Marriage," has...

August 2013

August 16, 2013

Dr. J., Religion, and the Bigotry of Superficial Sophistication

That's the title of my most recent column over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how...

October 2012

October 05, 2012

Reconsidering the First Freedom: Second Thoughts

That's the title of an essay I published in the latest issue of The City,...

July 2012

July 06, 2012

The Pluralist Game

That's the title of my latest entry over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

The Parable of the Kosher Deli: Bishop Lori’s Statement to the House Committee on Oversight regarding Religious Freedom

I anticipate the bishop's analogy in my October 14, 2011 Catholic Thing essay, "President Obama:...

February 2012

February 15, 2012

Read All About It!: President Obama to exempt religious organizations..[+Update]

from the list of tax-exempt non-profits that a citizen can work for in order to...

February 15, 2012

The Dangers of Anti-Sharia Laws

That's the title of a well-reasoned article published in the March 2012 issue of First...

February 14, 2012

Wall Street Journal: Birth-Control Mandate: Unconstitutional and Illegal

David Rivkin and Ed Whelan write in the Wall Street Journal (15 February 2012): Last...

February 13, 2012

Two Key Questions that Unlock the HHS “compromise” debate

Do religious-based organizations, such as Catholic hospitals and universities, and businesses owned by devout religious...

February 13, 2012

The Right Not to Do Wrong and the Politics of Ruse: Matthew Franck on the HHS “accommodation”

Over at Public Discourse, Matthew J. Franck, the Director of the William E. and Carol G....

February 12, 2012

Archbishop Chaput: “HHS mandate insulting and dangerous”

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia had this to say in this morning's Philadelphia Inquirer:...

February 11, 2012

Cardinal George of Chicago: “We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law.”

The following is an open letter authored by Francis Cardinal George, the Catholic Archbishop of...

February 11, 2012

Return to Rome Special Posting: Catholic Bishops-only internal briefing on the HHS regulations “compromise”

The Whispers in the Loggia blog (WITL) has obtained a bishops-only internal briefing that was...

February 10, 2012

USCCB Response to HHS “Compromise”: Unacceptable

Here's the text: Bishops Renew Call To Legislative Action On Religious Liberty February 10, 2012...

February 10, 2012

HHS “compromise” is Unacceptable, says former Vatican ambassador, Catholic University of America president, and others

(HT: Catholicvote.org) The following public letter was issued today by Mary Anne Glendon (former United...

February 10, 2012

Best explanation of the HHS “compromise”: it’s a shell game

It is the intellectual version of being short-changed. Here's what Ace says at Ace of...

February 03, 2012

The New Anti-Catholicism: Occupy the Vatican

That's the title of my latest column over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it...

December 2011

December 15, 2011

Dear President Obama….

A new video at CatholicVote.org: For more on religious liberty and conscience, read the outstanding...