N.b., A revised version of this post will follow in coming days. Today, the General Synod of the Church of England was all-but universally expected to approve a motion authorizing the consecration of women as bishops, eighteen years after the Anglicans first ordained women to the priesthood in 1994 and twenty-five years after their first [...]

We again mark the eleventh armistice. We were in Sydney earlier this year, and I was struck by their war memorial; most commonwealth countries have something like the Cenotaph in London, bearing the legend “the glorious dead.” The ANZAC memorial is quite different. Its heart is a statue titled “the sacrifice,” and it was one [...]

Overnight, a gunman opened fire into a crowded theater in Colorado. The victims—and the perpetrator—in the Colorado shooting are in my prayers. I must add this: This crime was not only ghastly, it was premeditated, and planned; predictably, the drumbeat has already begun to execute him. As Catholics, however, we must be a united voice [...]

This idea of “motivated reasoning”–“when a person is conforming their assessments of information to some interest or goal that is independent of accuracy”–is interesting. It seems to track Robert Bork’s argument in Neutral Principles and Some First Amendment Problems, 47 Ind. L. J. 1 (1971), his famous article on the subject: The Wechslerian legal process [...]