
Marc O. DeGirolami
Co-Host at Legal Spirits
St. John Henry Newman Professor of Law Co-Director, Center for Law and the Human Person The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
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4 days ago |
thepublicdiscourse.com | Marc O. DeGirolami
Editors’ Note: In recognition of the 100th anniversary of Pierce v. Society of Sisters, this article is published as the third in a three-part series on religious freedom. What can the minority in a democracy reasonably expect from the majority?
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1 month ago |
humanperson.law.edu | Marc O. DeGirolami
It was a great honor and pleasure for Kevin and me to host my fried and former colleague, Professor Mark Movsesian of St. John’s Law School. In this episode of Sub Deo, we discuss some of the most contentious and emotionally fraught cases in the law and religion canon–the wedding-vendor cases–pitting the rights of the traditional religious against LGBT persons.
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1 month ago |
humanperson.law.edu | Marc O. DeGirolami
That’s by and large the subject of our discussion on this new podcast, as Kevin and I chatted about some comments he will offer in response to Jonathan Gienapp’s “Against Constitutional Originalism” at a conference at Yale. It gave us a chance to revisit one of my favorite old cases, Calder v. Bull (1798), and the opinion of Justice Paterson (pictured above) in the case.
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2 months ago |
humanperson.law.edu | Marc O. DeGirolami
These are the topics, rather close to home, that Kevin and I take up in this episode of Sub Deo. Listen in!
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Mar 5, 2025 |
humanperson.law.edu | Marc O. DeGirolami
A follow-up Sub Deo podcast to our last concerning the Bruen case, in this episode Kevin and I reflect on the methodology of United Stated v. Rahimi and think about judicial prudence in light of a wonderful old classic of constitutional theory from the 1980s, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review, by Christopher Wolfe. Listen in!
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The priest-penitent privilege became the spiritual privilege. It overgrew its limits and some states today are responding by eliminating it. Saving it would require taking theology seriously. But we can't do that. So the privilege will die. And it probably should.

The priest-penitent privilege became the spiritual privilege. It overgrew its limits and some states today are responding by eliminating it. Saving it would require taking theology seriously. But we can't do that. So the privilege will die. And it probably should.

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