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February 25, 2011

Rev. Sirico: Church Changes How it Deals with Organized Labor

Rev. Robert A. Sirico is interviewed by Joan Frawley Desmond, a reporter for National Catholic Register, in today’s paper: Father Robert Sirico, president of the Acton Institute, a free-market think tank, suggested that the bishops’ response to the union protests marked a new era of episcopal leadership and a more nuanced understanding of economic realities in the United States. Continue Reading...

February 15, 2011

Rev. Sirico: ‘Social Justice’ is a complex concept

Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, published a new column today in the Detroit News: ‘Social Justice’ is a complex concept Rev. Robert Sirico: Faith and Policy A column by Anthony M. Continue Reading...

February 15, 2011

Video: Rev. Robert A. Sirico on Christian Poverty

If you weren’t able to join us in person for the inaugural lecture of the 2011 Acton Lecture Series, fear not: today, we’re pleased to present Rev. Robert A. Sirico’s “Christian Poverty in the Age of Prosperity” for our loyal PowerBlog readers. Continue Reading...

January 18, 2011

Free eBook: A Prescription for Health Care Reform

With health care moving back to center stage in Washington, we’re publishing Dr. Donald Condit’s Acton monograph A Prescription for Health Care Reform as a free eBook readable in a variety of formats. Continue Reading...

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...

November 05, 2010

Wealth and Poverty in Portugal

I’m currently in Lisbon ahead of Acton’s fourth conference in the seven-part series Poverty, Entrepreneurship, and Integral Development. Entitled “Catholic Social Teaching, Free Enterprise, and Poverty”, it will take place on Tuesday, November 9 at the Catholic University of Portugal. Continue Reading...

October 29, 2010

Oslington, Economics, and the Social Encyclicals

Dr. Paul Oslington, professor of economics at Australian Catholic University, has a piece up today that examines the scope of social encyclicals, beginning with Rerum Novarum in 1891 and focusing especially on the similarities and differences between John Paul II’s Centesimus Annus and Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate. Continue Reading...

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