Pastoral Resources

Decisive action has been taken on the home front with passage of the USA Patriot Act, which has strengthened the hand of law enforcement agencies to stop terrorists before they can act.

For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president?

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness.

I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.

Christianity is part of the common law.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

I am not afraid of being sued by white businessmen. In fact, I should welcome such a law suit.

Not a season passes without new disclosures showing Nixon's numerous attempts at criminal use of his presidential powers and in fact the scorn he held for the rule of law.

Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.

Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.

This is not to condone torture, which is still prohibited by the Torture Convention and federal criminal law.

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

Congress's definition of torture in those laws - the infliction of severe mental or physical pain - leaves room for interrogation methods that go beyond polite conversation.