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January 10, 2011

Obamacare and the Threat to Human Dignity

From the Jan. 5 Acton News & Commentary. This is an edited excerpt of “Health-Care Counter-Reform,” a longer piece Dr. Condit wrote for the November 2010 issue of the Linacre Quarterly, published by the Catholic Medical Association. Continue Reading...

December 06, 2010

Acton Rome event on Ethics, Aging and Health Care

Last Thursday at Rome’s (but technically part of Vatican City) Pontifical Lateran University, Istituto Acton held a day-long conference on “Ethics, Aging and the Coming Healthcare Challenge.” It was a successful event, if a bit unusual compared to some of our other Roman gatherings. Continue Reading...

November 24, 2010

Catholic Social Teaching and the Tea Party Movement

Kevin J. Jones of the Catholic News Agency interviewed Acton’s Rev. Robert A. Sirico and Dr. Steven Schneck, Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies at the Catholic University of America, to find out how the Tea Party lines up with Catholic Social Teaching. Continue Reading...

October 27, 2010

Juan Williams’ Firing Might Produce Desired Results

Published today in Acton News & Commentary. Sign up for the free weekly email newsletter from the Acton Institute here. Juan Williams’ Firing Might Produce Desired Results By Bruce Edward Walker It was a tough few days last week in Radio Wobegone. Continue Reading...

October 19, 2010

Rev. Robert Sirico: Tea Party Must Define Ideas

A new Detroit News column by Acton Institute President and co-founder Rev. Robert A. Sirico: Tea party must define ideas By Father Robert Sirico If the recent analysis by the New York Times on the success of the tea party movement is correct, the influence of this movement favoring limited government and low levels of taxation may have a decided impact in the upcoming elections, particularly in holding the Republican leadership’s feet to the fire on a variety of related issues. Continue Reading...

October 13, 2010

Catholics and the Tea Party

A good give-and-take on the tea party movement on Our Sunday Visitor. Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, weighs in: Many of the stances tea party activists have taken on political issues also would resonate with Catholic voters, Father Sirico said. Continue Reading...

August 10, 2010

Audio: Rev. Sirico on ‘The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Service to the Poor’

On the new Reclaiming the Culture radio show, host Dolores Meehan recently interviewed Acton President Rev. Robert A. Sirico on the subject of “The Principle of Subsidiarity and the Service to the Poor.” Continue Reading...

August 04, 2010

Health Care Subsidiarity in the UK and the US

A recent New York Times story reports that the new British government plans to “decentralize” the National Health Care system as part of its new austerity measures. Practical details of the plan are still sketchy. Continue Reading...

July 22, 2010

Nullification and Subsidiarity

Thomas Jefferson’s long-forgotten theory of state nullification may have found an ideal time for a resurgence, as the Tea Party and other groups advocate limited government as a solution to many of our current problems in health care, the economic crisis, our broken educational system, and the relentless expansion of government. Continue Reading...

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