Return to Rome 
(HT: K-Lo at NRO)
I mentioned, and republished, this letter two days ago on this blog when it contained only the signatures of its
original signatories. The Becket Fund has now published the letter as a pdf online. You can get it here. But, as my fellow patheos blogger K-Lo states, “keep an eye here … for periodic updates on the letter on the mandate Notre Dame’s Carter Snead has been organizing since Friday. It is an impressive list.. and still growing.” I am proud to have placed my own name alongside those of such accomplished men and women.
Here is the list of names that appear in the letter as of high noon CST on February 12, 2012:
Signed:
John Garvey
President, The Catholic University of America
Mary Ann Glendon
Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University
Robert P. George
McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
O. Carter Snead
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Yuval Levin
Hertog Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
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[Note: Affiliations provided for identification purposes only]
University and College Professors
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School,
Department of Political Science and the Committee on International Relations,
The University of Chicago
Michael W. McConnell
Richard and Frances Mallery Professor of Law & Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center,
Stanford University
Donald Landry, Samuel Bard Professor of Medicine & Chair, Department of Medicine &
Physician-in-Chief, Columbia University
Thomas F. Farr
Director of the Religious Freedom Project, Georgetown University
Richard W. Garnett
Associate Dean and Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
John B. Londregan
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Patrick MacKinley Brennan
John F. Scarpa Chair in Catholic Legal Studies and Professor of Law, Villanova University
Mark C. Murphy
McDevitt Professor of Religious Philosophy, Georgetown University
Patrick Griffin
Department Chair and Madden-Hennebry Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
John Cavadini
Director, Institute for Church Life and Associate Professor of Theology,
University of Notre Dame
Gary Anderson
Hesburgh Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame
Christian Smith
William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology & Director, Center for the Study of Religion and
Society, University of Notre Dame
Harindra Joseph F. Fernando
Wayne and Diana Murdy Endowed Professor of Engineering and Geosciences,
University of Notre Dame
William N. Evans
Keough-Hesburgh Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Steven Smith
Class of 1975 Endowed Professor of Law, University of San Diego
Larry Alexander
Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
W. Cole Durham, Jr.
Susa Young Gates University Professor of Law and
Director, International Center for Law and Religion Studies
J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
Lynn D. Wardle
Bruce C. Hafen Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School
Prof. Alan Mittleman
Professor of Modern Jewish Thought
The Jewish Theological Seminary
Rabbi Meir Y. Soloveichik
Director, Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University
Gilbert Meilaender
Duesenberg Professor in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University
Russell D. Moore, Ph.D.
Dean and Professor of Christian Theology and Ethics,
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Thomas Kelly
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
Michael Stokes Paulsen
Distinguished University Chair & Professor of Law, The University of St. Thomas
David Lyle Jeffrey
Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities, Baylor University
Edward R. Dougherty
Robert M. Kennedy ’26 Chair
Director, Genomic Signal Processing Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A & M University
Director, Computational Biology Division
Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, AZ
Paolo Carozza
Professor of Law and Director, Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame
Philip Bess
Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
Timothy S. Fuerst
Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Gerard V. Bradley
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Amy Barrett
Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
Sean Kelsey
Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame
Gabriel Said Reynolds
Tisch Family Associate Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology and Director of
Undergraduate Studies, University of Notre Dame
David O’Connor
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Associate Professor of Classics,
University of Notre Dame
Joseph Kaboski
David F. and Erin M. Seng Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Patrick Deneen
Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor
Director, The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy
Department of Government, Georgetown University
Vincent Phillip Muñoz
Tocqueville Associate Professor of Political Science
Concurrent Associate Professor of Law
Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
John O’Callaghan
Director, Jacques Maritain Center & Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Notre Dame
Daniel Philpott
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Mike Pries
Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
John F. Gaski
Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Notre Dame
Duncan G. Stroik
Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame
Rev. Wilson D. Miscamble, C.S.C.
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Bryan T. McGraw
Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations, Wheaton College
Timothy Samuel Shah
Associate Director & Scholar in Residence, Religious Freedom Project,
Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs, and
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
Jacqueline M. Nolan-Haley
Professor of Law and Director, ADR & Conflict Resolution Program, Fordham University
Rev. Thomas V. Berg
Professor of Moral Theology, St. Joseph’s Seminary-Dunwoodie
William S. Brewbaker III
Associate Dean and William Alfred Rose Professor of Law, University of Alabama
William B. Hurlbut, M.D.
Physician and Consulting Professor, Neuroscience Institute, Stanford University
Micah J. Watson
Director, Center for Politics and Religion and Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Union University
Helen Alvaré
Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University
Michael Moreland,
Associate Professor of Law, Villanova University
V. Bradley Lewis
Associate Professor of Philosophy, The Catholic University of America
Mark Rienzi
Senior Counsel, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
Assistant Professor of Law, the Catholic University of America
Patrick Lee
Professor of Philosophy, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Francis J. Beckwith
Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, Baylor University
William Imboden
Assistant Professor, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas
Christopher Tollefsen
Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina
Thomas A. Cavanaugh
Professor of Philosophy, University of San Francisco
C. Ben Mitchell
Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy, Union University
Gerald R. McDermott
Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion, Roanoke College
Robert D. Benne
Director of the Center for Religion and Society, Roanoke College
Douglas Henry
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University
Richard Stith
Professor of Law, Valparaiso University
Thomas S. Kidd
Associate Professor of History and Senior Fellow, Institute of Religion, Baylor University
Joseph Knippenberg
Professor of Politics, Oglethorpe University
John D. Woodbridge
Research Professor of Church History and Christian Thought,
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Rev Prof D. A. Carson
Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
President, The Gospel Coalition
University/College/Seminary Presidents, Deans, and Board Members
Stephen D. Minnis
President, Benedictine College
Robert Bryan Sloan Jr
President, Houston Baptist University
Sister Mary Sarah Galbraith, O.P.
President, Aquinas College (TN)
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
President, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Daniel Akin
President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Timothy O’Donnell
President, Christendom College
David Dockery
President, Union University
Dr. William K. Thierfelder
President, Belmont Abbey College
Carl E. Zylstra
President, Dordt College
Michael F. McLean
President, Thomas Aquinas College (CA)
Samuel W. “Dub” Oliver, Ph.D.
President, East Texas Baptist University
H. James Towey
President, Ave Maria University
Bernard F. O’Connor
President, DeSales University
Father Terence Henry, TOR
President, Franciscan University of Steubenville
William Edmund Fahey
President, The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (NH)
Marianne Evans Mount
President, Catholic Distance University
Brian Kelly
Dean, Thomas Aquinas College (CA)
Thomas Hibbs
Honors College Dean and Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Culture, Baylor University
Donna Bethell
Chairman of the Board, Christendom College
Journalists
R. R. Reno
Editor, First Things
Ryan Anderson
Editor, Public Discourse
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Editor at Large, National Review Online
Ramesh Ponnuru
Senior Editor, National Review
Matt Schmitz
Deputy Editor, First Things
Justin Taylor
Blogger, “Between Two Worlds,” The Gospel Coalition
Independent Scholars and Activists
Nancy Matthews
Former Chancellor of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport
George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies,
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Chuck Colson
Founder, Prison Fellowship Ministries
Edward Whelan
President, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Michael Novak
George Frederick Jewett Scholar Emeritus in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy,
American Enterprise Institute
Board member, Ave Maria University
Michael Cromartie
Evangelicals and Civic Life Program
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Brian W. Walsh,
Executive Director, American Religious Freedom Program
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Patrick Fagan
Senior Fellow and Director, Marriage & Religion Research Institute
Austin Ruse
President, C-FAM
Father Jonathan Morris
Author, Televison Analyst
Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral, NYC
Maggie Gallagher
Institute for Marriage and Public Policy
Robert C. Odle, Jr.
Partner, Weil Gotshal and Manges
William Saunders
Senior Vice President and Senior Counsel
Americans United for Life
Charmaine Yoest
President, Americans United for Life
Nikolas T. Nikas
President and General Counsel
Bioethics Defense Fund
Dorinda C. Bordlee
VP, Chief Counsel
Bioethics Defense Fund
Elizabeth Kirk
University of Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life
Matthew J. Franck
Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution,
The Witherspoon Institute
Kristina Arriaga
Executive Director, The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty
