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My Quest for the Truth
No full textOn November 15, 2022, Catholic Law hosted the second Faith in Action event of the 2022-2023 academic year. Elizabeth Kirk, Director of Catholic Law’s Center for Law and the Human Person, opened the program by welcoming the group to the the Faith in Action series and introducing Louis Brown, Associate Director of Catholic Law’s Center for Law and the Human Person. Brown then introduced Fr. Robert Boxie, priest of the Archdiocese of Washington and the Catholic Chaplain at Howard University in Washington, D.C. In his talk, “My Quest for the Truth,” Boxie spoke about his journey from his hometown in Louisiana to the priesthood, and how that journey was his quest for the truth.
Fr. Robert Boxie, a native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, and a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, is the Catholic Chaplain at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He previously served as the parochial vicar at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Largo, Maryland. Fr. Boxie graduated from Vanderbilt University and Harvard Law School. After law school, he clerked for a federal judge in Maryland, and then practiced law for a few years in Washington. He felt God’s call to the priesthood and took a huge leap of faith to join the seminary. His formation began at Theological College Seminary at the Catholic University of America, and continued at the Pontifical North American College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Fr. Boxie is an avid runner, tennis player, and, among other things, a classical music junkie
The Meaning of Kansas: Lessons From A Pro-Life Defeat
Get PDFThe recent defeat of a pro-life constitutional amendment in Kansas was not a consequence of strategic overreach, nor was it a rebuke of Dobbs. In fact, it followed from the difficulty of communicating complex legal and political principles, as well as navigating the fear and distortion generated by abortion advocates and their media allies. To help secure a pro-life future, we must learn the correct lessons of the Kansas loss, including the need to harness the emotional power of truthful narrative to shape political choices
Limiting the Boundaries of Assisted Reproductive Technology and Physiological Autonomy
Get PDFThis essay examines, critically, the wide successes of assisted reproductive technology (ART). With these successes have come concerns regarding its potential advancement of the boundaries of fecundity and of new levels of physiological freedom. One particular advancement involves efforts to utilize a phenomenon of nature termed parthenogenesis, or asexual reproduction. The potential for adapting this occurrence as a form of assisted reproduction is of particular interest for members of the LGBTQ community, holding great promise for embryo research and regenerative medicine. Parthenogenetic embryos could be derived from unfertilized human eggs and, thus, blunt--if not resolve--ethical concerns over experimentation on human embryos. These research embryos would, in turn, be a valuable source for producing stem cells which could then facilitate the growth of tissues for organ transplants. As a tool for expanding human fecundity, however, human use of parthenogenesis would be little more than a vain, glorious, and dangerous, scientific achievement. Having new avenues of reproduction for members of the transgender and lesbian communities is noble indeed. However, because there are other more practical and safer assisted reproductive technologies available to establish a family unit, this is an insufficient reason for experimentation in human parthenogenesis
Inaugural Lecture With Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
No full textOn September 27, 2022, the Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) hosted a special inaugural lecture by The Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Justice Alito was named the Honorary Chair of the Advisory Council of CIT last April
The New Disestablishments
Get PDFThis Article attempts to map out a set of social and legal phenomena-features of what it calls the new establishment, responses to it, and possible implications of dissenting new disestablishments-without offering an evaluation either of the new establishment or the new disestablishments. That is, this Article tries to point out the structural conditions within which claims of religious free exercise are now situated, but it does not opine on the morality or justice of the general social structure or the dissenting views that it discusses. Like everyone, I have my views about these subjects, but I have tried, as much as possible, not to cheerlead for any position and to remain descriptive, to understand better the social and legal conditions that now attend these fraught conflicts
No Way to Treat a Child
No full textThe final presentation of the day reflected on the scope and magnitude of the current child welfare crisis. While noting that the problem is significant, the presentation also offered hope that it is also solvable
Human Rights Compliance: Faith Perspectives on Business Accountability for Human Rights
No full textCatholic Law’s Compliance, Investigations, & Corporate Responsibility (CICR) Program, in collaboration with Paul Hastings LLP, hosted its penultimate event of the year in the Business Accountability for Human Rights series. The program, “Human Rights Compliance: Faith Perspectives on Business Accountability for Human Rights,” focused on how faith traditions can contribute to the dialogue on business accountability for human rights and the extent to which they can act on these issues
