Congratulations to the Law Blog Mirror of Justice, 20 Years Old This Weekend

The blog primarily deals with Catholic legal thought; I've been following it since the beginning, and know and much respect many of its contributors. If you're at all interest in the subject, you should check it out.

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

Your view of “Catholic legal thought” is probably that of a lot of non-Catholics. In fact Catholics are not like that.

Mirror of Justice, though well written, marches in lockstep with “official” Catholic positions and does not reflect the majority views of American Catholics and not even of American priests.

[Dr. Ed 2]

In which way?

From what I'm seeing, the current pope has gone woke.
Blessing sodomy, which is what my church calls it, and what the Catholic Church used to call it, comes to immediate mind.
See: https://www.newsweek.com/pope-francis-rebellion-grows-90-catholic-figures-sign-scathing-letter-1866617

It used to be "love the sinner, hate the sin."

[Voize]

That's what I would expect of "Catholic legal thought" as opposed to "legal thought of Catholics". It's not as though we are talking about a democratic institution.

[Dr. Ed 2]

IS there such a thing as a distinctly “Catholic” school of legal thought?

Justices Sotomayer and Barrett are both Catholic. And they are both female — and those two things are probably all they have in common. Likewise Justices Thomas and Kavanaugh are both Catholic, but they are absolutely not the same type of people…

If there was a distinct Catholic school of legal thought, they’d all be different from the three non-Catholics on the Court — everything would be 6-3 and it isn’t. And when it *is* 6-3, Sotomayer definitely is not one of the six…

And as to Mirror of Justice, take for example this: https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2024/01/title-ix-and-the-assault-on-hillsdale-college.html

That’s not just a Catholic issue!!! And I believe that Hillsdale is nondenominational Christian — it was founded by Baptists.

Nothing against Mirror of Justice, I just don’t see the distinction being made.

[F.D. Wolf]

I had never heard of it. I now have it bookmarked. Thank you, Professor.

St. Thomas More, patron saint of lawyers, pray for us.

[Dan Schiavetta]

I thought the patron saint was Charles Borromeo. Both were intolerant men who burned heretics.

When I was defending the Catholic Church I often got invited to “Red Masses”. No thank you!

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Choose reason. Every time. Especially over sacred ignorance, dogmatic intolerance, and childish superstition.