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“Buildings of Worship as Cultural Heritage in Italy – New Scenarios for the Management and Reuse of Catholic Churches Between Canon Law and State Law” By Davide Dimodugno

Oct 10, 2023Canopy ForumLiterature HighlightsCatholicism, Christianity, Dimodugno, Davide, October 2023, Philosophy

Buildings of Worship as Cultural Heritage in Italy – New Scenarios for the Management and Reuse of Catholic Churches Between Canon Law and State LawDavide Dimodugno Excerpted and translated from Gli edifici di culto come beni culturali in Italia. Nuovi scenari per la gestione e il riuso delle chiese cattoliche tra diritto canonico e diritto statale…

“‘60s Dreaming: Social Uplift Aims and Contradictions” by R. Drew Smith

Oct 5, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, History, Human Rights / Civil Rights, October 2023, Smith, R. Drew

“Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.” Colorized by Jordan J. Lloyd on Unsplash. O n August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial a speech that 60 years later possesses enduring significance for the struggle to achieve equal social opportunity as delineated within America’s founding principles. In the…

“An Illustrative Approach to Religious Freedom Violations in Nigeria” by Dennis P. Petri

Sep 28, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Petri, Dennis P., Philosophy of Religion, September 2023

Lagos, Nigeria by Nupo Deyon Daniel on Unsplash. Nigeria is a multi-ethnic and culturally diverse federation of 36 autonomous states and the Federal Capital Territory. The political landscape is partly dominated by the ruling All Progressives Congress party (APC), which controls the executive arm of government and holds majority seats at both the Senate and…

“Three Contemporary Catholic Approaches to Democracy” by Matthew P. Cavedon

Sep 19, 2023Canopy ForumSeriesCatholicism, Cavedon, Matthew P., Christianity, Constitutional Law, Politics, September 2023

Image: Church Altar Pews (Pixabay) This article is part of our “Reassessing Democracy: Contemporary Perspectives” series. If you’d like to explore other articles in this series, click here. T here is no single Catholic political philosophy. Some intellectuals, like twentieth-century philosopher Heinrich Rommen, have even suggested that “Catholic political philosophy” is a contradiction in terms, given the…

“Under the Protection of God: Does the Preamble of the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 Allow Freedom of Expression solely for Christians?” by Damião Benilson Gomes de Melo, Rafaela Albuquerque Fires & J. Ernesto Pimentel Filho

Sep 8, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysAlbuquerque, Rafaela, Christianity, Constitutional Law, Latin America (Geography), Melo, Benilson, Pimentel Filho, J. Ernesto, September 2023

Picture of the Supremo Tribunal Federal in Brazil by Dennis W. Asfour (CC BY-SA 4.0). In Brazil, the constitutional preamble of the 1988 Federal Constitution contains the expression “under the protection of God,” which has sparked debates for many years regarding its legally binding relevance. A landmark decision (the ADI 2076) even addressed whether the…

“Watering the Seeds of Consciousness through Sound : Logos, Shabd, and the Implications for Natural Law” by Sunil Rao

Aug 17, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysAugust 2023, Christianity, Human Rights / Civil Rights, Philosophy, Rao, Sunil

Heraclitus, ‘the weeping philosopher’, by Johannes Moreelse (PD-US). The human inclination to search for timeless and transcendent truths, and transform them into laws that promote justice, is deeply rooted in our collective consciousness. It also lies at the heart of classical natural law theory, which has its roots in ancient Greek philosophy and Christian theology.…

“Faith in Interpretation” by Aaron J. Walayat

Aug 15, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysAugust 2023, Christianity, Constitutional Law, Philosophy, Walayat, Aaron J.

Abraham and the Angels by Andries Snellinck (PD-US). What is the relationship between faith and constitutional interpretation? Superficially understood, this could refer to popular polemic of taking the specific religious faiths (religious affiliations) of Supreme Court justices, reducing these affiliations to political opinions, and construing these observations with the justice’s interpretive ideology. More esoterically, “faith”…

“The Right to Conscientious Objection Under Martial Law in Ukraine” by Illia Roskoshnyi

Aug 8, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysAugust 2023, Christianity, Europe (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, Roskoshnyi, Illia

From the President of Ukraine (PD-US). The right to conscientious objection to military service as a fundamental human right is recognized and guaranteed at the international level. This opposition may rest upon reasons of religious belief, philosophy, morality, ethicality, emotional or political grounds. However, at the same time, the recognition of the right to conscientious…

“‘A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast’*: Early Modern Christian German-speakers, and the Rights of Other Creatures” by Anthony Roeber

Jul 20, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysChristianity, Europe (Geography), Human Rights / Civil Rights, July 2023, Roeber, Anthony

*(Proverbs: 12:10); “The Good Shepherd, St. Botolph without Aldersgate” by Andrewrabbott (CC BY-SA 4.0). The present essay explores why the various versions of Christianity that emerged in North America by the early nineteenth century contributed almost nothing to the emerging concern about the rights of animals and the prevention of cruelty. Despite the gradual emergence…

Law, African Religion, and Environmentalism by Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu

Jul 15, 2023Canopy ForumEssaysAfrica (Geography), Christianity, Ethics, Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony, Religious Freedom

Mazah Hills, Jos, Nigeria. Photo by Victor Salami Oyale (CC BY-SA 4.0). In 2022, I was invited by Harvard Divinity School at Cambridge for a conference titled “Ecological Spiritualities” to present my paper, on African eco-spirituality. While preparing the paper with a focus on the Indigenous experience, I carried out a survey which revealed that, although several…