Cathy Kaveny on Prophecy and Casuistry, Abortion and Torture

I highly recommend this terrific essay by Cathy Kaveny, who, as many of you know, holds the John P. Murphy Foundation Professorship at Notre Dame Law School; she is also Professor of Theology at Notre Dame.  (Among her many other accomplishments:  She survived a semester as my student, at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where I was co-teaching a course with Robin Lovin.)  Cathy's essay was the basis for her Donald A. Giannella Memorial Lecture at Villanova Law School, on February 23, 2005.

M. Cathleen Kaveny, Prophecy and Casuistry:  Abortion, Torture and Moral Discourse, 51 Villanova Law Review 499-579 (2006)