By Lucia A. Silecchia The groundhog spoketh. I rarely attach much weight to the opinions of rodents. Yet, when February rolls around, I do pay some amused attention to the prognostications of a certain Punxsutawney Phil — not to be confused with his less renowned colleagues, Staten Island Chuck, Essex Ed, Buckeye Chuck, and the […]
NATIONAL REVIEW | COMMENTARY By: V. Bradley Lewis
By Lucia A. Silecchia With a new year still in its infancy, I find myself surrounded by new calendars. In so many different ways, these are tangible reminders of the importance of time. Scripture speaks often about the sacredness of time, with the assurance that “[t]here is a time for everything, and a season for […]
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER | COMMENTARY By: Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer As our current government leaders move to pass the so-called Equality Act, a necessary lesson on what religious freedom in the United States really means and how we must combat the current war being waged upon it. In addition to being the day in which we […]
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 […]
Jennifer A. Frey, Liberal Education and Human Flourishing
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 M.A. Student Erica Lizza Students in this year’s M.A. in Human Rights cohort met last week with Professor Mark Rienzi of the Columbus School of Law, who also serves as president of Becket Law, a public-interest law firm that specializes in religious liberty litigation. Professor Rienzi spoke about his trajectory in the […]
