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May 23, 2023

Don’t Divinize the State

One consequence of what Italian philosopher Augusto del Noce calls our present “age of secularization” is the paradoxical modern tendency of atheists to divinize politics and the state. What the Church once undid, ideology would rejoin. Continue Reading...

January 07, 2022

Remembering Latin America’s knight of freedom

January 7, 2022, marks the fifth anniversary of the death of a man who played a major role in spreading throughout Latin America the key ideas that underpin the free society. Continue Reading...

February 03, 2020

Catholics and classical liberals, yesterday and today

In many countries, debates we had 40 years ago are starting to be rehashed: can one be both a Catholic and a classical liberal? It’s good to remember some of the arguments that liberal Catholics used then to justify their positions. Continue Reading...

June 28, 2019

New French language translation on Catholicism and communism on Acton’s transatlantic website

The Acton Institute has posted a new translation as part of its ongoing outreach to the French-speaking world. The article, “La montée du communisme dans des habits catholiques,” describes efforts to use Catholic rhetoric to promote the same statist aims once advanced by the former Communist Party in Eastern Europe. Continue Reading...

June 27, 2018

Statement from Rev. Robert A. Sirico on the Supreme Court’s Janus Decision

The Catholic Church has supported workers’ rights from Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum to the present day when it comes to defending worker safety and human dignity. Catholic social teaching has never said that people may be forced to join unions or financially support unions, private or public. Continue Reading...

July 20, 2017

Samuel Gregg: ‘On that strange, disturbing, and anti-American Civiltà Cattolica article’

On July 13th, Civiltà Cattolica, a Jesuit periodical from Rome, published an article that was largely critical of American culture. The very next day, Samuel Gregg, director of research at the Acton Institute, responded in the Catholic World Report with an article titled “On that strange, disturbing, and anti-American ‘Civiltà Cattolica’ article.” Continue Reading...

April 10, 2017

Lord Acton Meets Lord Krishna: Yoga as the Reign of Conscience

In North America ‘Yoga’ is synonymous with exercise consisting of a series of postures as well as form-fitting and surprisingly comfortable pants. But there’s much more: it’s a philosophy deeply grounded in conscience as the source of virtue. Continue Reading...

December 19, 2016

Some thoughts for Pope Francis on his 80th birthday

This past Saturday, Pope Francis celebrated his 80th birthday and in an opinion piece for The Detroit News on the same day Acton Director of Research Samuel Gregg expressed his primary criticism of the Holy Father. Continue Reading...

April 04, 2016

Samuel Gregg: Catholicism and the Enlightenment

Acton Research Director Samuel Gregg reviews a new book at the Library of Law and Liberty that demolishes the canard that religious figure were “somehow opposed holus bolus to Enlightenment ideas is one that has been steadily discredited over the last 50 years.” Continue Reading...

May 21, 2014

Samuel Gregg: Catholicism’s Compatibility With Capitalism

Sam Gregg, Director of Research for Acton, is featured in an interview with the National Catholic Register. The interview ranges from Gregg’s education and career at Acton to how Catholicism and the free markets dovetail. Continue Reading...

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