Posts by Michael Severance
November 29, 2018
Why would a lay Dominican woman from the so-called “dark ages” have any lasting relevance in today’s world?
For one reason, Catherine of Siena, was no ordinary woman. And she eventually became no ordinary saint. Continue Reading...
September 17, 2018
Rev. Robert Sirico’s ‘Catholique et Libéral’ launched in Paris
Recently, on September 6, Acton’s president and co-founder Rev. Robert Sirico launched his first trade press book in French Catholique et Libéral. Les raisons morales d’une économie libre (Editions Salavator, trans. Continue Reading...
February 13, 2018
Fact check on China as ‘best’ model of Catholic Social Teaching
Dominating the Vatican news cycle over the past week was a controversial statement made by the Chancellor of the Vatican’s Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences. In a Spanish interview, it was the Argentine Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo who said upon returning to Rome from Beijing: “Right now, those who are the best at implementing the [Catholic] Church’s social doctrine are the Chinese.” Continue Reading...
December 05, 2017
Rome conference on Jesuits, globalization reaps record attendance
On November 29 the Acton Institute filled the Pontifical Gregorian University’s aula magna to maximum capacity with at least 380 participants, a record attendance during Acton’s 17 years of academic programming in Rome. Continue Reading...
November 27, 2017
Natural rights revisited during Salamanca University’s 800th anniversary
Note: Some PowerBlog readers might be wondering why the Acton Institute is holding a Rome, Italy, conference on November 29: Globalization, Justice, and the Economy on 16th and 17th Century Spanish scholasticism (The conference will be broadcast on LiveStream. Continue Reading...
December 13, 2016
Basta! Explaining why Italy stood united against constitutional reform
November 18, 2016
Pope Francis to entrepreneurs: Do good, despite what culture says
November 16, 2016
Rev. Robert A. Sirico: Pope Francis and the condemnation of money
November 10, 2016
An Italian view of America’s election results: Berlusconi reincarnate, financial penance
September 22, 2016