Join the IHE for a virtual event on The Disintegrating Conscience and the Decline of Modernity, a new book by Steven D. Smith, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego. Professor Smith will be joined by Kevin C. Walsh, Knights of Columbus Professor of Law and the Catholic Tradition at The Catholic University of […]

Join the IHE for its second Annual Lecture on Catholic Political Thought. Dr. Gregory M. Reichberg will give this year’s lecture, “Thomism Goes to War.”  Saint Thomas Aquinas is often credited, alongside Saint Augustine, with being the initiator of what has come to be called the “just war tradition.” Indeed, Aquinas’s short Summa Theologiae article (II-II, q. 40, a. 1) […]

Join the IHE for a thoughtful discussion with V. Bradley Lewis, moderated by Father Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. The past few years have seen a burst of interest in the ancient idea of the common good as the purpose and standard of political life. Catholic Social Teaching has characterized the common good as an ensemble of conditions that allow […]

The IHE is proud to host a book panel on Soldiers of God in a Secular World: Catholic Theology and Twentieth Century French Politics (Harvard Press, 2021) by Sarah Shortall (Notre Dame). Secularism has been a cornerstone of French political culture since 1905, when the republic formalized the separation of church and state. At times the […]

The IHE’s First Annual Lecture on Catholic Political Thought will be delivered by Professor Russell Hittinger, who has recently joined the IHE and The Catholic University of America. The lecture is entitled “How to Inherit a Kingdom: Reflections on the Situation of Catholic Political Thought.” This event will take place on Thursday, October 6 at […]