March 27, 2013
March 22, 2013
Women of Liberty: Jane Jacobs
March 20, 2013
Women of Liberty: Clare Booth Luce
March 14, 2013
Women of Liberty: Abigail Adams
(March is Women’s History Month. Acton will be highlighting a number of women who have contributed significantly to the issue of liberty during this month.)
In today’s era of texting, Facebooking and emails, one wonders how comfortable our nation’s second First Lady would have felt about these forms of communication. Continue Reading...
March 11, 2013
Women of Liberty: Hildegard of Bingen
(March is Women’s History Month. Acton will be highlighting a number of women who have contributed significantly to the issue of liberty during this month.)
“This strange child” is how Hildegard was once described. Continue Reading...
March 06, 2013
Women of Liberty: Joan of Arc
(March is Women’s History Month. Acton will be highlighting a number of women who have contributed significantly to the issue of liberty during this month.)
Joan of Arc
1412-1431
The Maid of Orleans
Young Joan, by any account, had a plain beginning to an extraordinary life. Continue Reading...
February 19, 2013
Calvin Coolidge: A Rare Kind of Hero
February 11, 2013
After Pope Benedict Resigns, Fight Against ‘Dictatorship of Relativism’ Goes On
Today, Acton’s Rome office and the world were stunned by what the Dean of the College of Cardinals said was a “bolt out of the blue”: just after midday Benedict XVI informed the public that he would be stepping down as the Catholic Church’s pontiff and one of the world’s preeminent moral and spiritual leaders, effective on February 28. Continue Reading...
January 31, 2013
‘Becoming Europe’ or Coming Full Circle?
January 15, 2013