A Culture of Engagement

Introduction: Life in the Crisscross Part One: Law as a Teacher1. Rules Are Not Enough: Why Judges Need Empathy 2. Teacher or Remedy: What Is the Law for? 3. Letter versus Spirit: Why the Constitution Needs Interpreting 4. Remember the Mormons: Thinking about the Nature of Marriage 5. Regulating Abortion: What Did the Roberts Court Do? 6. Caught in the Gap: What Hostility to Health-Care Reform Has Wrought 7. "Peaceful and Private": Montana's Supreme Court Rules on Assisted Suicide 8. More Than a Refuge: Why Immigration Officials Should Steer Clear of Churches 9. Justice or Vengeance: Is the Death Penalty Cruel and Unusual? 10. Undue Process: The Evisceration of Habeas Corpus 11. Bad Evidence: Not only Is Torture Immoral, It Doesn't Work 12. Perverted Logic: Behind the Bush Administration's "Torture Memo" 13. Regret Is Not Enough: Why the President Should Read Paul Ramsey Part Two: Religious Liberty and Its Limits14. The Right to Refuse: How Broad Should Conscience Protections Be? 15. The Bishops and Religious Liberty: Are Catholics Becoming a Sect? 16. Is the Government "Defining Religion"?: The Bishops' Case against the Mandate 17. Defining Exemptions Does Not Equal Defining Religion: A Category Mistake 18. An Evolving Accommodation: Religious Minorities and the Common Good 19. Employment Division v. Smith: The Eye of the Storm 20. Smith, RFRA, and the Bishops' Claims: Neutral Laws of General Applicability? 21. The Key Supreme Court Case for the Mandate: U.S. v. Lee 22. Reading the Tea Leaves: Why the Supreme Court Is Unlikely to Block the Contraception Mandate 23. A Minefield: The Troubling Implications of the Hobby Lobby Decision Part Three: Conversations about Culture24. Watch Your Mouth: Sage Advice from St. James 25. Model Atheist: Jeffrey Stout and the Culture Wars 26. Bishops and Politics: Lessons from Australia 27. Moving beyond the Culture Wars: Why a Bioethics Council Needs Diversity 28. A Flawed Analogy: Prochoice Politicians and the Third Reich 29. Sick Minds: What Can We Do to Prevent Another Tucson? 30. Crime or Tragedy? Murder and Suicide at Villanova 31. Dignity and the End of Life: How Not to Talk about Assisted Suicide 32. The Right Questions: Catholic Colleges and Pop Culture 33. Either/Or? Catholicism Is More Complex Part Four: Conversations about Belief 34. Family Feuds: What's Keeping Catholics Apart? 35. The Martyrdom of John Roberts: Catholic Squabbling, Then and Now 36. No Academic Question: Should the CTSA Seek "Conservative" Views? 37. The "New" Feminism? John Paul II and the 1912 Encyclopedia 38. Catholic Kosher: Is the Ban on Contraception Just an Identity Marker? 39. The Big Chill: Humanae Vitae Dissenters Need to Find a Voice 40. How about NOT Firing Her? Moral Norms and Catholic School Teachers 41. Truth or Consequences: In Ireland, Straying Far from the Mental Reservation 42. Unspeakable Sins: Why We Need to Talk about Them 43. A Darkening: Why a Church Scandal Does More Harm Than the New Atheism44. The Long Goodbye: Why Some Devout Catholics Are Leaving the Church45. That '70s Church: What It Got Right Part Five: Cases and Controversies46. The Consistent Ethic: An Ethic of "Life," Not "Purity"47. Contraception, Again: Where Can We Find Compromise?48. When Does Life Begin? Two Prolife Philosophers Disagree49. Why Prolife? It's about People, Not Abstractions 50. The ACLU Takes on the Bishops: Tragedy Leads to a Misguided Lawsuit51. Co-Opted by Evil? Abortion and Amnesty International52. Boycotts in a Pluralistic Society: How and Where Do We Draw Moral Lines?53. Forever Young: The Trouble with the "Ashley Treatment"54. Risk and Responsibility: Why Insurance Is the Wrong Way to Think about Health Care 55. A Horrific Crime: But Is Execution the Answer? 56. Could the Church Have Gotten It Wrong? Let's Look at the Facts Conclusion: Tradition and Transformation Suggestions for Further Reading About the AuthorIndex