On September 7, students in the M.A. in Human Rights program meet with the Religious Freedom Institute’s president, Thomas Farr, to learn about the understanding and promotion of religious freedom as a human right. Dr. Farr shared his experience in transitioning from a career in the U.S. Army and at the State Department to his […]
In September, the Catholic University community gathered for our annual Mass of the Holy Spirit to mark the start of the new academic year. I prayed for my students and my colleagues – and I hope that they prayed for me. This year, a rare chalice from 15th century Ireland was used in our celebration […]
by José Freire Nunes, M.A. Student The current MA in Human Rights class had the privilege of attending a remote presentation last Wednesday given by Anilda Rodrigues, program officer for the World Youth Alliance in the United States. The World Youth Alliance (“WYA”) is a non-governmental organization started in 1999 by 21-year-old Anna Halpine […]
(CNN Español) — Daniel Ortega está moviendo a Nicaragua en la dirección de un Estado autoritario. Ha apresado a varios oponentes políticos antes de las más recientes y cuestionadas elecciones presidenciales para mantenerse en el poder. Sin embargo, hay una institución que no ha sido capaz de silenciar: la Iglesia católica.
By Human Rights Graduate Student, Veronica Smaldone The newest cohort for the MA in Human Rights visited the Museum of the Bible as part of the program’s orientation held on Friday, August 26. After an introduction by Program Director William Saunders, the University’s Provost, Aaron Dominguez, Professors Bradley Lewis and David Walsh, and Chinese human […]
The fight against Lucifer was going pretty well – until the devilish enginery appeared. As John Milton depicts the battle of Satan’s rebellious angels against the forces of Heaven in his epic poem “Paradise Lost,” the demons were on the backfoot, until they devise “implements of mischief” that will “dash/To pieces, and orewhelm whatever stands/Adverse, that […]
This past Thursday there was an interesting exchange between White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and a correspondent for the Catholic Eternal World Television Network. When Jean-Pierre was asked about the White House’s reaction to the latest persecution of Catholics in Nicaragua — the abduction of a bishop, incarceration of priests and seminarians, and the shutting down of Catholic radio stations […]
Michael Gorman School of Philosophy, CUA Few of us like to admit to being wrong. We drag our feet before doing so. Sometimes we don’t do it at all, but instead cling to whatever foolish thing we have thought or said. Why hang on to error? Why be wrong when we don’t need to be? […]
By Lucia A. Silecchia “Navigating home,” she said in that assertive, mechanical voice of a well-used GPS system. She calculated the way that would route the car homeward, chiming in from time to time to offer directions and guidance on the way back home. There is something oddly comforting in both her utter confidence and in […]
By IHE Fellow Angela Knobel “We suffer because of our dependence on others. And we must choose this suffering. Much of life is an attempt to distinguish between those sufferings that we ought to try to weed out of the soil of our lives and those sufferings that are seeds that might bear fruit. By […]
This past month, William Saunders, Director of the M.A. in Human Rights Program, taught at the Free Society Seminar. The seminar was founded in 2001 by Catholic intellectual Michael Novak with the aim of creating a dialogue with students in countries formerly in the Soviet Union about the various political, economic, and moral-cultural elements essential […]
