Featuring: Joseph Capizzi, Ed Condon, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, and Andrea Picciotti-Bayer The Institute for Human Ecology and the Catholic Information Center hosted a panel discussion to celebrate the life and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI.
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER | Commentaries By: Andrea Picciotti-Bayer and V. Bradley Lewis COMMENTARY: It is our responsibility to work toward the fulfillment of his vision. No pope in history has defended religious freedom with such eloquence and authority as Benedict XVI. His understanding of this complex subject wonderfully clarified the relationship between religion and freedom, […]
REASON | Religion By: Stephanie Slade To truly care about virtue is to recognize that it matters how you win: Ends don’t justify means. For many members of the so-called New Right, one thing is clear: Classical liberal principles are not getting the job done. The left, after all, has no compunction about using the […]
By Lauren Revay I remember as a child having a weekly coloring page depicting a different scene from Scripture. In a sense, the scene came alive well before I could read or understand what was contained within the rich words of the Gospels. Little did I know that many years later those scenes would not […]
Essay | ONLINE LIBRARY OF LIBERTY By: Jennifer A. Frey Few people have written more powerfully, passionately, and poignantly about the value of liberal learning than Roosevelt Montás. For Montás, the issue of liberal education is deeply personal: liberal learning, grounded in the classical texts of the Western tradition, transformed his life. It is not […]
FIRST THINGS By: Jennifer A. Frey In the mid-1980s, the Catholic philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe drew up a syllabus of errors, which she delivered—rather appropriately—in Rome, to a group of moral theologians. Her syllabus consisted of twenty theses, commonly held by her fellow analytic philosophers, that she deemed “inimical to the Christian religion” and that could, […]
FOX NEWS By: Andrea Picciotti-Bayer The “Respect for Marriage Act” will soon become the law of the land despite serious concerns over the act’s failure to shield people who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman from reprisal. While our elected leaders in Washington may be indifferent to this real threat to individual liberty, all […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia Several years ago, I was standing in a checkout line behind two women deep in conversation. I couldn’t help overhearing that one was recently widowed and struggling to adjust to this new season of life. Most of their conversation, however, was drowned out by the lilting strains of “It’s the Most Wonderful […]
THE NATIONAL REVIEW By: Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
By Lucia A. Silecchia “Over the river and through the woods …” “From Atlantic to Pacific, gee the traffic is terrific …” Popular songs in our canon of carols and songs have travel as a key theme. The jarring reference to traffic is a realistic acknowledgement that those travels have their challenges! In the days ahead, […]
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