Do you know what Vatican II wanted? Vatican II wanted great Catholic lawyers, great Catholic politicians, great Catholic writers, great Catholic journalists, great Catholic parents, great Catholic Educators going out into the world. Vatican II said the seculum -- the secular order -- that's your space. Move into it with panache and energy and intelligence and enthusiasm. Become body-given, blood-poured-out. We'd set the country on fire! Bishop Robert Barron 10th National Eucharistic Congress |
Teresa Collett comments on the U.S. Supreme Court Opinion in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine On June 13, 2024 the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, rejecting prolife doctors and medical organizations’ challenge to the FDA’s repeated narrowing of restrictions on the use and distribution of mifepristone (marketed under the brand name of Mifeprex), a drug used in medication abortions. The first page of the court’s opinion provides a brief history of the ever-shrinking regulation of the drug. | In the News |
Eighth AnnualCatholic Bar AssociationConference and General Assembly
The Eighth Annual Conference and General Assembly of the Catholic Bar Association was held Oct. 27-28 at George Mason University Arlington Campus in Arlington, Virginia. Attendees enjoyed fascinating presentations by Judge William H. Pryor, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, who gave the annual St. Thomas More Lecture at our Red Mass banquet, Professor Helen M. Alvaré who was our Charles E. Rice Memorial Lecturer, and The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of the Diocese of Arlington who was the principal celebrant and homilist at our Red Mass. Other presenters included Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President Emeritus and co-founder of the Acton Institute, federal Judges Justin R. Walker and Robert J. Conrad, Jr., and other law professors and legal practitioners, all discussing the application and effect of Catholic moral and legal principles in the practice of law. We also enjoyed an excellent roundtable discussion entitled The Tale that Won’t Stop Wagging: The Attacks on Pius XII and What They Tell Us. Read more here. |
Why do Catholic legal professionals object to the use of preferred gender pronouns? The Catholic Lawyers Society for Metropolitan Detroit wrote a dissent to a proposed rule change in Michigan that would require courts to ask litigants and others what their preferred pronouns may be, and then require judges and others to use those pronouns. With the permission of the CLS for Metropolitan Detroit, the CBA republishes their statement to assist anyone wanting to understand the issue and its impact on Catholic legal professionals. As they set forth at the beginning of the statement: Read the complete statement here or on the Michigan Courts website. |
More attention to CLE Attorneys are busy and most need Continuing Legal Education. We are pleased to report that, for the 2023 CBA Conference, at least 9.0 CLE credit hours were pre-approved in 17 states and could be self-reported in 7 other states:
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