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by bcadmin | Jan 18, 2022 | Buck v. Bell, Carleton, Casti Connubii, Echoes of Catholic Minnesota, John Hendren Bell, Minnesota’s Catholic Supreme Court justice, News, Pierce Butler, Ramsey County Attorney, State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded, U.S. Supreme Court, Warren G. Harding | 0 |
On May 2, 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its verdict in the case Buck v. Bell. The court ruled in favor of John Hendren Bell, superintendent of the State Colony for Epileptics and Feeble Minded*, upholding a Virginia statute that favored involuntary sterilization of individuals who were deemed mentally unfit. Only one justice dissented. He was Pierce Butler, a Catholic and native of Minnesota.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2020 | 1870, 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, 2020, Casti Connubii, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Dogmatic Constitution Pastor Aeternus, First Vatican Council, Gerald Kelly S.J., Infallibility: The Unopened Gift, John Ford S.J., July 18, News, Pope Pius IX, Pope Pius XI, Pope St. John Paul II, Russell Shaw, section 25 of Lumen Gentium, The Catholic Thing, Vatican I | 0 |
Russell Shaw: Popes retain their right to make infallible pronouncements, but there is little danger the Church will ever become an infallibility factory.
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