By IHE Scholar Lucia A. Silecchia Every year, when I flip my calendar to December, thoughts of Christmas overwhelm me with anticipation of the joys to come and the great gift of Christ’s Nativity. Yet, when I open that same calendar to the month of March, my initial thought has never been, “The Solemnity of […]
By IHE Graduate Fellow Thomas Holman These days we are exposed to a lot of cross-cutting accusations of irrationality. A near-ubiquitous trope in contemporary political discussion is that those with whom we disagree are stupid or need to be reeducated. The people on the other side of the argument are just not being reasonable. But […]
By M.A. Student Megan Witt On Wednesday, February 22, the Masters in Human Rights students were lucky to have Professor Robert George join their capstone course virtually as a guest lecturer. Professor George has a very impressive background in the field of human rights. He currently teaches at Princeton University as the sixth McCormick Professor […]
NATIONAL REVIEW | COMMENTARY By: Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
By M.A. Student Josè Nunes On February 2, 2023, Dr. Jakub Grygiel – a professor in the Politics Department of the Catholic University of America – spoke via Zoom with the human rights cohort about the weaponization of the U.S State Department to advance a particular ideological agenda through American foreign policy. Previously, he served […]
By M.A. Student Megan Witt On February 8th, in substitution for their weekly Capstone class, the Masters of Human Rights students traveled to the Embassy of the Republic of Rwanda in Northwest, D.C. Prof. Saunders chose to visit the embassy in honor of St. Bahkita’s feast day, one of the patron saints of the program. […]
NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER | OPINION By: Kathy Schiffer | Featuring Andrea Picciotti-Bayer and Joseph Capizzi, Ph.D.
THE WASHINGTON POST | LETTER TO THE EDITOR By: Andrea Picciotti-Bayer
By M.A. Student Vincent Schiffiano This past week I attended the March for Life in Washington DC. There are few things which truly amaze me in politics, but the March is one of them. I began my day with a walk through the National Mall down the reflecting pool to the Lincoln Memorial. From the […]
By M.A. Student Nicole Stone “Ho ho, hey hey, Roe v Wade has gone away!” The exuberant college students around me cheered over and over as we approached the end of the March for Life, walking up the hill to end at the Supreme Court building. In years past, I’d heard a different version of […]
By M.A. Student Megan Witt Since I was a child I have been lucky enough to attend the March for Life. It was always something my family looked forward to doing together. As a child though, I never fully grasped the reality of the situation. That there were hundreds of thousands of lives being taken […]
By M.A. Student José Freire Nunes Nellie Gray – a successful U.S government attorney and convert to the Catholic faith – decided to resign in 1973 from her professional position and dedicate herself to the pro-life cause. Her decision was motivated by the Supreme Court ruling on Roe v. Wade whereby the justices acknowledged abortion […]
