March 07, 2018
August 08, 2017
Samuel Gregg on the Pope’s problematic view of Venezuela
In a new article for the WSJ, writer William McGurn writes that while Pope Francis and the Vatican have stubbornly resisted speaking out against Venezuela’s regime, a recent uprising in Venezuela pushed the Vatican to finally admit “profound concern.” Continue Reading...
July 25, 2017
New teaching program aims to revive Catholic education
For the past decade, Catholic education has been on the decline. Data from the 2016-2017 National Catholic Education Association Report shows that since 2006, the number of Catholic schools has decreased by 14 percent and the number of students attending Catholic school has decreased by 17.6 percent. Continue Reading...
December 28, 2016
Commentary: Power and the poor
In this week’s Acton Commentary I examine the foundations of what is today identified as the “preferential option for the poor” in writings that appeared 125 years ago, Pope Leo’s Rerum Novarum and Abraham Kuyper’s “The Social Question and the Christian Religion.” Continue Reading...
December 13, 2016
A ‘Pinocchio’ Rating for Pope Francis
December 09, 2016
Leo XIII and Kuyper on the social question
This year marks the 125th anniversary of two key documents in the development of modern Christian social thought: the papal encyclical Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII and the speech “The Social Question and the Christian Religion” by Abraham Kuyper. Continue Reading...
October 24, 2016
Samuel Gregg interviewed on new book ‘For God and Profit’
September 09, 2016
The financial mess of the Vatican
July 29, 2016
Remembering Pope John Paul II’s advice: ‘Do not be afraid’
July 21, 2016