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Professor Robert George Addresses Human Rights During Kickoff Event
More than 80 students, faculty, and members of the local community gathered for a discussion of human rights and religious liberty with Robert George, Princeton University’s McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at The Catholic University of America’s Heritage Hall on Sept. 20th.
The Leisure of Work
A moment’s reflection on the development of science and technology suggests that, rather that render humans obsolete, innovation multiplies the need, and opportunity, for personal work. Times change, people adapt, and society flourishes when people are allowed to try out new ways of doing things, and to benefit from their experiments.
Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship: Podcasts
Interested in what happened at the recent Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship? Check out talks given by speakers Joseph Capizzi, Father Dominic Legge, and Adrian Vermeule.
Former CIA Acting Director Recounts 9/11 and Lessons Learned
On the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA, participated in a public conservation with Nicholas Dujmovic, director of Catholic University’s Intelligence Studies Program.
Catholic University Law Hosts Constitution Day Lecture Given By IHE Fellow
On September 17, 2018, Dr. Daniel Burns, Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Dallas and Visiting Research Associate in Politics and Fellow, Institute for Human Ecology, delivered the Constitution Day lecture entitled “What Makes Freedom of Religion Different from Freedom of Speech?”
A New Master of Arts in Human Rights
The Institute for Human Ecology is pleased to announce the launch of a new Master of Arts in Human Rights, designed for graduate students from the United States as well as abroad, with diverse academic interests and backgrounds, who wish to study human rights from a distinctly Catholic perspective.
Freddie Gray & The Baltimore Riots:
Lessons in 21st Century Policing Leadership
Kevin Davis, Baltimore’s 39th Police Commissioner, will recount a big city police culture and its relationship with its residents in his presentation of the historic riots in 2015.
Healing the Breach of Trust: Laity, Leadership, and the Crisis
This fall we will launch a series of conferences on the Church’s current crisis. This first session will be an introduction to a series that will extend into the spring, and perhaps the full year.
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Featured Fellows
Reverend Monsignor Anthony R. Frontiero, S.T.D.
Vice Rector and Director of Human Formation at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary
Expertise: Social Ethics, Moral Theology and Religion, Social Theory
George Garvey
Emeritus Ordinary Professor of Law at The Catholic University of America
Expertise: Economic regulatory law and policy; history and application of Catholic Social Doctrine; Catholic Education
Lucia Ann Silecchia, J.D.
Professor of Law, and Director, Summer Law Program in Rome, The Catholic University of America
Expertise: Environmental Law and Ethics; Catholic Social Thought & Law; Catholic Higher Education
Brandon Vaidyanathan
Associate Professor of Sociology, The Catholic University of America
Expertise: Work and Professions; Religion and Globalization; Religion, Science, and HealthA Catechism for Business
A Catechism for Business draws together the Church’s social doctrine on business, organized by topic and question. It serves as a reference guide for Catholic business leaders who wish to deepen their faith and grow in their understanding of Catholic social doctrine as applied to business.
“A Catechism for Business fills a critical need in today’s complex world, where moral answers to questions are not always clear-cut. This well-organized and concise book is an absolute must for business people and policy makers ‘in the trenches’ as well as for academics, and even theologians focused on the common good.”
– Luanne Zurlo, Founder and former President and Executive Director, WorldFund