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The Morning Sun
April 19, 2018
An apocryphal anecdote has John Lennon pronouncing not only wasn't he the greatest rock drummer but Ringo Starr wasn't even the best drummer in the Beatles. As far as I can tell, Lennon never uttered that assessment, but it caught on widely. Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine never uttered, “Play it again, ...
The Winchester Star
April 8, 2018
The Acton Institute's Brooke Levitske put it more bluntly: “Christ expected his followers to treat criminals in prison the way they would treat him, but he said nothing about busting them out of prison.” As a Catholic who believes in strict immigration enforcement, I have argued repeatedly that it is one thing to ...
Kankakee Daily Journal
April 7, 2018
Open borders tour guides in Mexico illegally shepherding 1,500 Central Americans to the United States border declared victory this week. Mexican officials reportedly are offering humanitarian visas to avert a showdown. But the parade of immigration lawlessness marches on — with reckless aiding and ...
Lowell Sun
April 5, 2018
The Acton Institute's Brooke Levitske put it more bluntly: "Christ expected his followers to treat criminals in prison the way they would treat him, but he said nothing about busting them out of prison." As a Catholic who believes in strict immigration enforcement, I have argued repeatedly that it is one thing to ...
The Laconia Daily Sun
April 5, 2018
The Acton Institute's Brooke Levitske put it more bluntly: "Christ expected his followers to treat criminals in prison the way they would treat him, but he said nothing about busting them out of prison." As a Catholic who believes in strict immigration enforcement, I have argued repeatedly that it is one thing to ...
The Oakland Press
April 4, 2018
A man playing the role of Jesus Christ hangs on a cross in a Way of the Cross reenactment, marking Good Friday in San Joaquin de Flores, Costa Rica, Friday, March 30, 2018. Holy Week commemorates the last week of the earthly life of Jesus Christ culminating in his crucifixion on Good Friday and his ...
The Macomb Daily
March 29, 2018
This past week, a magazine formerly known as a gentlemen's quarterly excreted a poisonous lack of substance into the webosphere. Written by a foul-mouthed scribe going by the name of Drawn McHaggard (his name altered to shield the guilty), the piece in question trotskys out all the standard-issue ...
The Oakland Press
March 29, 2018
This past week, a magazine formerly known as a gentlemen's quarterly excreted a poisonous lack of substance into the webosphere. Written by a foul-mouthed scribe going by the name of Drawn McHaggard (his name altered to shield the guilty), the piece in question trotskys out all the standard-issue ...
The Macomb Daily
March 28, 2018
This past week, a magazine formerly known as a gentlemen's quarterly excreted a poisonous lack of substance into the webosphere. Written by a foul-mouthed scribe going by the name of Drawn McHaggard (his name altered to shield the guilty), the piece in question trotskys out all the standard-issue ...
The Oakland Press
March 21, 2018
FILE - In this May 28, 2017 file photo, shows the interior of the Rhema community church, in Franco da Rocha, in the greater Sao Paulo area, Brazil. Brazilian labor authorities have sued to shut down the local church with ties to the Word of Faith Fellowship in the United States, following an investigation by ...
La Croix International
March 19, 2018
This is why it is hard to see a moral equivalence between a group like the Acton Institute, which pushes a free-market ideology, and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Nonetheless, the relationship between money and ideas in the church deserves attention independently from the particular issue ...
The Oakland Press
March 14, 2018
FILE - In this April 7, 2005 file photo, Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, stands beside a stack of books that during his tenure have been awarded four National Book Awards and three Pulitzer Prizes, at the publishing house's New York headquarters. Galassi has chosen ...
The Australian
March 12, 2018
Samuel Gregg, an Australian who heads the free-market Acton Institute in the US, said the furore surrounding the grant amounted to lay members of the Foundation Board observing the Vatican's financial scandals and deciding “enough is enough''. The Papal Foundation has since capped the controversial ...
Eurasia Review
March 8, 2018
*Trey Dimsdale came to the Acton Institute from Fort Worth, Texas, where he served as the Associate Director and Research Fellow in Law and Public Policy for the Richard Land Center for Cultural Engagement. At the Land Center, Trey helped to administrate a very active calendar of events that involved ...
National Catholic Reporter
March 7, 2018
Samuel Gregg, the research director at the Acton Institute, has a chapter called "Understanding Pope Francis." He charts the unhappy history of Argentina in the 20th century, how it went from "riches to rags," and how the culprit was really political manipulation and constriction of the free market, mostly at ...
The Federalist
March 6, 2018
Paul Bonicelli serves as director of programs at the Acton Institute. His career includes a presidential appointment with Senate confirmation as assistant administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development; as a professional staff member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of ...
National Catholic Reporter
March 1, 2018
At The New Republic, read Emily Atkin on "Scott Pruitt vs. The Pope." Atkin examines the rather self-serving religious justifications Pruitt puts forward for his subservience to the extraction industry. I think it is fair to say that Pruitt's views lack the sophistication of the Holy Father's. But my favorite line is this: ...
The Oakland Press
February 28, 2018
In this April 18, 2016, photo a person looks at Intuit TurboTax software on display at a retailer in Foster City, Calif. Tax returns surge over Presidents Day weekend, with the IRS saying it receives more phone calls on the day after Presidents Day than on any other day of the year. Filing online is the most ...
The Federalist
February 27, 2018
She recently completed an MA in John Paul II Philosophical Studies at the Catholic University of Lublin in Poland and has participated in programs hosted by: the Acton Institute, the Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society, the Hildebrand Project, and the Philos Project. Photo israeltourism / Wikimedia.
National Catholic Reporter
February 27, 2018
... people who directly or indirectly attack the pope a "strategic partner" with your seminary? I understand the need to fundraise, but there comes a point at which the Catholic integrity of our institutions is called in to doubt from such associations. What's next? Making the Acton Institute a "strategic partner"?
National Catholic Reporter
February 26, 2018
As a columnist, it is difficult to know whether to even call attention to this kind of nonsense. You hope it will be seen for the ludicrous ranting that it is. But, then you see people like Samuel Gregg, research director of the Acton Institute, retweeting an article in the increasingly fringe-prone Catholic Herald, and ...
Eurasia Review
December 31, 1999
*Trey Dimsdale came to the Acton Institute from Fort Worth, Texas, where he served as the Associate Director and Research Fellow in Law and Public Policy for the Richard Land Center for Cultural Engagement. At the Land Center, Trey helped to administrate a very active calendar of events that involved ...
The Federalist
December 31, 1999
Bolton gives the president the chance to complete his national security team with someone who appears to know the president's mind, knows the role of the United States in the world, and knows the American public. That's also pretty good. Paul Bonicelli serves as director of programs at the Acton Institute.
The Morning Sun
December 31, 1999
... forever upward,” writes Easterbrook. Who can doubt him, given the ample evidence? Bruce Edward Walker (walker.editorial@gmail.com) is a Morning Sun columnist, contributor to The Federalist, creative-writing instructor, freelance writer, and host of the Acton Institute's “Upstream” pop-culture podcast.
Eurasia Review
December 31, 1999
“The saddest country I went to was Romania, years ago, during Ceaușescu's rule.” This is how the famous British actor Christopher Lee described his encounter with my native land at a time when the Cold War was threatening the stability of the planet. In 1989, Communism finally collapsed. My generation ...
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— Lord Acton
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The Acton Institute's activities are governed by a Board of Directors. Each member of our board believes in the importance of the Acton Institute's work to promote the compatibility of faith and freedom.
- Mr. David Humphreys - Chairman,
Tamko Asphalt Products
- Mrs. Betsy DeVos - Treasurer,
The Windquest Group, Inc.
- Dr. Alejandro A. Chafuen - Secretary,
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
- Rev. Robert A. Sirico - President,
The Acton Institute
- Mr. Barry Conner,
America's Home Place
- Mr. Robert Costello,
Social Security Choice.org
- Mr. Frank Hanna III, HBR Capital, Ltd.
- Mr. Alejandro Garza Lagüera, Pulsar International
- Mr. David Milroy,
Reams Asset Management Company
- Mr. J.C. Huizenga,
National Heritage Academies
- Mr. Sidney J. Jansma, Jr., Wolverine Gas and Oil Corporation
- Rev. Ren Broekhuizen, Pastor,
Ridge Point Community Church
Acton Board of Advisors
- Dr. William B. Allen,
Michigan State University
- Mr. Doug Bandow,
Cato Institute
- Rev. John Michael Beers,
Pontifical College Josephinum
- Mr. F. Joseph Bradley, Audio Alert, Inc.
- Dr. Rocco Buttiglione,
International Academy of Philosophy
- Sr. Connie Driscoll, St. Martin de Porres House of Hope
- Dr. Rufus Fears,
University of Oklahoma
- Rev. Joseph Ganssle, OFM, Marian Associates
- Dr. Steve Hanke,
Johns Hopkins University
- Dr. James C. Holland,
Shepherd College
- Mr. James L. Johnston,
Amoco Corporation (ret.)
- Rabbi Daniel Lapin,
Toward Tradition
- Dr. Leonard P. Liggio,
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
- Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse,
George Mason University
- Dr. Ronald Nash,
Reformed Theological Seminary
- Mr. Michael Novak,
American Enterprise Institute
- Rev. Dr. Edmund Opitz,
Foundation for Economic Education (ret.)
- Rev. James Sadowsky, SJ,
Fordham University
- Rev. James V. Schall, SJ,
Georgetown University
- Mr. Harry Veryser,
Walsh College
mediatransparency.org
The Acton Institute's central mission is to counter what it sees as "the clergy's disturbing bias against the business community and free enterprise," principally by convening three-day conferences for seminarians and divinity students in order to "introduce them to the moral and ethical basis of free market economies."
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