Communications Specialist at Acton Institute. M.A. in World Religions.
Posts by Elise Hilton
February 05, 2013
New England Patriots’ punter Zoltan Mesko is undoubtedly upset that his team didn’t make it to the Super Bowl again this year, but it’s hardly the toughest ordeal of his life.
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February 04, 2013
“The Constitution protects your right to believe and worship, not force your beliefs on others.” That’s a response Acton received via Twitter regarding a blog post on the HHS Mandate. This type of statement is a typical one in our society: you can believe whatever you want, but don’t force your beliefs on anyone else.
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January 31, 2013
On Monday, January 28, the Rev. Robert Sirico participated in a debate, hosted by the Aquinas Institute for Catholic Thought, on the role of government in helping the poor. Fr. Sirico debated Michael Sean Winters, a writer with the
National Catholic Reporter, on the campus of the University of Colorado in Boulder.
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January 30, 2013
Frank Hanna III, CEO of Hanna Capital, LLC, has made Catholic education a special focus. In an interview with the
National Catholic Register, Hanna spoke of the challenges, changes and reasons to champion religious education:
The more I looked into the issues of society, the more I became convinced that a lot of our societal failings happen much sooner; so much of the foundation of our failure was happening in our educational system.
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January 30, 2013
Acton’s Director of Research and author of
Becoming Europe, Samuel Gregg, was featured yesterday on The RJ Moeller Show. Gregg talked about America’s drift towards “social democracy” and other economic themes in his new book; Moeller gives more detail at this post at Values & Capitalism.
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January 28, 2013
In 2011, the Obama administration cut off funding to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that was used to fight human trafficking. The USCCB lost funding for its refusal to provide abortions, sterilizations and artificial birth control in their anti-trafficking programs, as these services are all immoral, according to Catholic teaching.
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January 23, 2013
The wildly-popular BBC production, “Downton Abbey” has offices buzzing on Monday mornings. Like the “Upstairs, Downstairs” of old, “Downton” provides the viewer with two distinct lifestyles in one house: that of Lord and Lady of the manor and of the staff that runs the place.
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January 21, 2013
AU Online’s four part series, Building a Marketplace Theology: From Conception to Execution of an Evangelistic Marketplace Practicum, begins tomorrow, January 22. Enrollment is now open.
Dave Doty, author of Eden’s Bridge, will be speaking on four key issues related to his book and experience.
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January 16, 2013
Author of “Becoming Europe” and Acton’s Director or Research, Samuel Gregg, will be at The Heritage Foundation on Thursday, February 7 to speak on “Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future.”
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January 15, 2013
Registration is now open for Acton University, planned for June 18-21, 2013. Courses for this year’s conference (subject to change) include Theology of Work, Social Entrepreneurship, Rise and Fall of the European Social Market, Fertility’s Impact on the World Economy, and Islam, Markets and the Free Society.
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