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Religious liberty is central to the Great American Experiment—established by the Founding Fathers and defended robustly to this very day. That said, how sure can we be that religious freedom is safe in America in 2022? How confident can we be that declining worship by Americans doesn’t weaken it, or that legislative actions won’t chip away at it? These pressing questions should provoke careful consideration and robust discussion.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022 Cancel Culture Targets Charity A very important opinion piece is in the WSJ today by Jeremy Tedesco, senior counsel and senior vice president of corporate engagement for Alliance Defending Freedom. Tedesco details the work by Unmasking Fidelity, a loose coalition of fringe groups that recently delivered a list of demands to Fidelity Charitable, which manages a donor-advised fund through which account holders can direct contributions to their favorite nonprofits.
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Tuesday, December 28, 2021 2022 Church, State & Society Writing Competition The Program on Church, State & Society at Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce a writing competition on topics and questions within the Program’s focus. This writing competition requests student-authored scholarly papers and will honor winners with cash awards.
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 Faith Groups Say the Build Back Better Act Would Exclude Faith-Based Child Care and Pre-Kindergarten Providers Two bishop chairmen on behalf of their committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) have cosigned a coalition letter to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and Ranking Member Richard Burr (R-NC) with other faith groups raising urgent concerns that the Build Back Better Act’s (BBBA)...
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Monday, November 29, 2021 Not Quite Silenced: Understanding the censoring of John Courtney Murray The Roman parable of John Courtney Murray looms large in the modern American Catholic imagination.
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Friday, November 12, 2021 Professor Rick Garnett to Speak at University of Chicago Law School on November 16th Students for Religious Liberty, St. Thomas More Society, Christian Legal Society, Jewish Law Students Association present: LAST RIGHTS, Religious Liberty, the Death Penalty, and Ramirez v. Collier Feat. Professor Rick Garnett Nov.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2022 Notre Dame Church, State & Society Writing Competition The Program on Church, State & Society at Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce a writing competition on topics and questions within the Program’s focus. This writing competition requests student-authored scholarly papers and will honor winners with cash awards.
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Friday, October 29, 2021 The Right to Religious Freedom: Extension or Erosion? Interesting chapter by Rafael Domingo. Abstract: In this chapter, I argue for religious freedom as a first-class right, and I criticize the views of some distinguished scholars who react against traditional conceptions of religious freedom and deny the right to any special protection of religion by legal systems. I focus primarily on Ronald Dworkin and Brian Leiter’s views and arguments.
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Thursday, September 30, 2021 Justice Samuel Alito: "The Emergency Docket" A public address by US Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. on "The Emergency Docket." Presented by the Constitutionalism and Rule of Law Lab at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, with co-sponsorship by the Notre Dame Law School.
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Friday, October 8, 2021 Revisiting the “Separation of Church and State” in Our Time of Deep Division Religious freedom does not matter because the Constitution protects it; instead, the Constitution (like modern human-rights law) protects it because religious freedom matters. It is not a gift from the government; it is a limit on the government.
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Friday, October 22, 2021 The Popes as Guardians of Human Dignity with Cardinal Gerhard Müller Cardinal Gerhard Müller will speak at Notre Dame on Wednesday, October 27th. Carey Auditorium, Hesburgh Library 4-5:30 p.m. | Wednesday, October 27 Cardinal Gerhard Müller is the former Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Thursday, September 30, 2021 Tandon v. Newsome, South Bay Pentecostal, & Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn on Religious Liberty and the Pandemic Tandon v. Newsome, South Bay Pentecostal, & Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn on Religious Liberty and the Pandemic Richard Garnett Paul J.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2021 Professor Rick Garnett to Speak at Constitution Day Lecture at The Citadel The Citadel will hold Constitution Day events, including one on Sept. 23, with constitutional expert, Prof. Richard Garnett, JD. He is the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law and Concurrent Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, where he is also the founding director of the Program on Church, State & Society. “We can all learn from Prof.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2021 Notre Dame Law School’s Sixth Annual National Appellate Advocacy Tournament for Religious Freedom is now live Every year, teams from law schools across the country participate in our Tournament, arguing before a mock Supreme Court of the United States. We hope you will join us this fall to celebrate student scholarship, appellate advocacy training, and address challenging questions involving the First Amendment.
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Monday, September 20, 2021 Program on Church, State & Society 2021 fellows share summer experiences Three Notre Dame Law students gained valuable exposure this summer in the area of religious-institutions practice. Sponsored by the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society, each summer fellow assisted a religiously affiliated organization.
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Monday, September 13, 2021 Case Prompt for Notre Dame Law School’s Sixth Annual National Appellate Advocacy Tournament for Religious Freedom | Permalink
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Tuesday, September 7, 2021 Postdoctoral Research Associates in Religion and Politics Postdoctoral Research Associates in Religion and Politics The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics seeks applications from junior scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates for up to four postdoctoral fellowships in residence at Washington University in St. Louis. The appointment is for one year, renewable for a second year.
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Friday, September 3, 2021 Professor Rick Garnett Filed Amicus Brief Regarding Ministerial Exception Professor Rick Garnett, along with other constitutional law scholars, filed a brief of amici curiae (Belya et al v. Kapral) regarding church autonomy and the ministerial exception. The brief can be read Download 2021-09-02 ECF 93 Amici Curiae Brief [Belya v Kapral] (1).
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Wednesday, August 25, 2021 RGCS Debate with Chiara Cordelli and Richard Garnett | Permalink
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Wednesday, August 4, 2021 Under Caesar's Sword Course: Christians in Response to Persecution | Permalink
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Monday, July 19, 2021 2021 Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty: Acceptance speech by Commissioner Nury Turkel The first Notre Dame Prize for Religious Liberty was presented to Nury Turkel of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom at the gala for the inaugural Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit on June 28, 2021.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2021 The partnership between Catholics and Latter-day Saints Cardinal Timothy Dolan had Elder Quentin L. Cook in stitches Monday while the two sat shoulder to shoulder for a videotaped interview in a room on the campus of the University of Notre Dame.
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Friday, June 25, 2021 ND Religious Liberty Summit A reminder that the ND Religious Liberty Summit will take place June 28-29. Many of the sessions will be streamed live on the NDLS YouTube channel. The Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit will be an annual gathering of the foremost thought leaders on religious liberty. The summit will stimulate engaging conversations between scholars, advocates, and religious leaders about the future of religious liberty in the United States and around the world.
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Friday, June 18, 2021 Why Shutdowns and Masks Suit the Elite A marvelous review in these pages last November inspired me to read a new book by O. Carter Snead, “What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Human Bioethics.” It was published by Harvard University Press on Oct. 13. Covid-19 had begun its transformation of American life a few months before, and of course the book made no mention of it.
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Thursday, June 17, 2021 Supreme Court sides with Catholic foster care agency A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Catholic foster care agency in Philadelphia may turn away gay and lesbian couples as clients, a victory for conservatives with the potential to shift the balance between LGBTQ rights and the First Amendment's protection of religious exercise.
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Thursday, June 10, 2021 2021 Religious Freedom Annual Review (RFAR), to take place online June 15–16, 2021 The theme of this year’s Review is “Religion’s Role in Overcoming Divides and Strengthening American Democracy.” BYU’s RFAR will address questions such as "Is it possible for religion to help overcome divides and strengthen democracy in the U.S? Partisan and social divides have rocked the country over the last year; to what extent can or does religion play a role in healing conflict and...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Gillman and Chemerinsky’s Masonic Religion Clauses In 1948, Justice Stanley Reed pithily proposed that a “[r]ule of law should not be drawn from a figure of speech.” Justice Reed was referring to President Thomas Jefferson’s reference, in an 1802 piece of constituent-service correspondence, to the “wall of separation between church and State” supposedly built by “the whole American people” when the First Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.
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Wednesday, June 2, 2021 Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative will bring together some of the world’s foremost thought leaders on religious freedom at the end of June for the inaugural Notre Dame Religious Liberty Summit. The summit, to be held on Notre Dame’s campus, will stimulate conversations between scholars, advocates, and religious leaders about the future of religious liberty in the United States and around the world.
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Friday, May 28, 2021 Program on Church, State & Society announces 2021 summer fellows The Notre Dame Law School Program on Church, State & Society has awarded three fellowships to Notre Dame law students for the summer of 2021. The fellowships are designed to give law students legal experience with religiously affiliated organizations. This year’s fellows are Lizzie Walter, Alec Afarian, and Mary Coleman.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Latest issue of the Journal of Law & Religion | Permalink
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Monday, May 24, 2021 Ending the Shame of Blaine The Catholic Bishop of Charleston, along with the South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the South Carolina constitution’s “Blaine Amendment.” This provision, which prohibits the state from “directly” funding any religious or private school, is responsible for blocking the schools operated by the litigants from receiving the federal COVID-19 relief funds to which they are entitled.
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Thursday, May 20, 2021 Deadline approaching for FFRF's third annual essay competition for law school students Law students are invited to submit a no more than 1,500 word essay on the dangers of adopting a broad “history test” to justify violations of the separation between state and church. The contest will award $10,000 in prize money, with $4,000 for first place, $3,000 for second and $2,000 for third place, plus $500 discretionary awards for honorable mentions.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Video: What you need to know about the Supreme Court’s biggest religion case this term The Supreme Court’s top religion case this term focuses on faith-based foster care services, but it may hold implications for a much wider variety of religiously motivated work. In Fulton v.
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Friday, May 7, 2021 The Program on Church, State & Society at Notre Dame Law School is pleased to announce the results of our first annual writing competition. Open to law students nationwide, as well as recent law graduates not yet practicing law, the competition seeks to encourage scholarship related to the intersection of church, state & society, and in particular how the law structures and governs that intersection.
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Wednesday, May 5, 2021 Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Mary Ann Glendon to speak at ND Law School I’m very excited to announce that we have rescheduled the inaugural Rice-Hasson lecture with Ambassador Glendon. Mary Ann Glendon, the Learned Hand Professor of Law, emeritus, at Harvard Law School and a former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, will be the inaugural speaker for the Rice-Hasson Distinguished Lecture Series at Notre Dame Law School on Wednesday, November 17, 2021.
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Saturday, May 1, 2021 Q&A with Daniel Philpott Daniel Philpott, Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and a faculty fellow of the Ansari Institute, is the recipient of the 2021 Religion and International Studies Distinguished Scholar Award.
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Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Supreme Court case risks government censorship of young people’s protected political and religious expression The Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments today (April 28) in Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., a case brought by a former Pennsylvania cheerleader whose profanity-laced social media post now presents challenging questions about the authority of public school officials to regulate and punish students’ speech off campus and on social media.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021 Protecting Oak Flat https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2021/04/protecting-oak-flat-.html | Permalink
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Yet, for over a year, California’s COVID restrictions prevented Jews and Christians alike from hosting any in-home religious gatherings if they included individuals from more than three households (including the host). This “gatherings ban” made it unlawfulto host even a small Bible study or seder meal.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Natural Rights and Religious Liberty: The Founders’ Perspective The meaning of religious freedom remains one of the more contested areas of our constitutional politics. The progressive left tends to emphasize freedom from religion, especially freedom from the influence of traditional religious sexual morality.
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Friday, April 16, 2021 A Public Funding Ban for Private Colleges ‘Born in Bigotry’? A lawsuit filed in federal district court argues that a provision of the South Carolina state constitution that bars public funds from being used for the "direct benefit" of religious or other private educational institutions should be struck down because it was born out of racist and anti-Catholic animus.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 A TIME OF CRISIS AND OPPORTUNITY Religious Freedom Institute will co-host an event Thursday, April 15 featuring a conversation between two career-long champions of religious freedom, Dr. Tom Farr, President of RFI, and Ken Starr, former US Solicitor General, about Judge Starr's new book, Religious Liberty in Crisis: Exercising Your Faith in an Age of Uncertainty.
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Friday, April 9, 2021 Religious Liberty: Where We Are and Where We’re Going Religious Liberty: Where We Are and Where We're Going, the inaugural event in a series entitled Courtrooms to Classrooms, will be a panel discussion featuring the Honorable Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, U.S. District Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas; and James A. Sonne, Law Professor, Stanford Law School, Founding Director, Religious Liberty Clinic at Stanford Law School.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021 Wayne State’s actions “obviously odious to the Constitution” A federal court just ruled against Wayne State University, finding that it discriminated against InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a religious student club, when it kicked the group off campus for requiring its leaders to be Christians.
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Monday, March 29, 2021 Christianity, Immigration, and the Religion of Humanity The humanitarian proposal is hard to refuse, because it postulates that we can achieve justice if everyone simply becomes aware of their essential human likeness. The Christian proposal is hard to accept, because it affirms that all human beings are prisoners of an injustice from which they cannot escape by their own efforts. Excellent article in Public Discourse.
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Thursday, March 25, 2021 John Paul II's Contribution to Law Very interesting paper: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3774948&dgcid=ejournal_htmlemail_law:religion:ejournal_abstractlink# Abstract This chapter examines John Paul II’s contribution to law as a statesman, world leader, and universal pastor of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021 RELIGIOUS LIBERTY UNDER A NEW COURT Utah Valley University will livestream what promises to be an excellent First Amendment Conference.
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Thursday, March 18, 2021 The Venice Commission and Current Challenges of Constitutionalism in Europe https://nanovic.nd.edu/events/2021/03/23/lecture-with-paolo-carozza-the-venice-commission-and-current-challenges-of-constitutionalism-in-europe/ About the Lecture The European Commission for Democracy through Law (commonly known as the "Venice Commission") is the Council of Europe's advisory body, composed of independent experts, on issues of constitutional law and politics throughout its...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021 ND Law's Religious Liberty Clinic is hiring a Staff Attorney and Legal Fellow. ND Law's Religious Liberty Clinic is hiring a Staff Attorney and Legal Fellow. Staff Attorney – jobs.nd.edu/postings/20421 Legal Fellow - jobs.nd.edu/postings/20420 The new clinic aims to promote religious freedom for people of all faiths. https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2021/03/nd-laws-religious-liberty-clinic-is-hiring-a-staff-attorney-and-legal-fellow.html | Permalink
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Friday, March 12, 2021 ND Law's Religious Liberty Initiative files amicus brief in support of Maine families in school choice case Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday (March 11), representing the Council for Islamic Schools in North America, Partnership for Inner-City Education, and Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America. The case is an important parental choice case, Carson et al v.
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