
WashingtonA blessed Thanksgiving to PowerBlog readers. [New York, 3 October 1789] By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation...

Giancarlo Ibárgüen, President of Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City, Guatemala, received the institute’s first Guardian of Freedom Award in a ceremony at the university’s campus on Nov. 16. More ...

It’s ironic – and tragic – that as the world celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Communism’s defeat in Europe, the comic-opera that is Hugo Chavez’s “21st century socialist” Venezuela is descending to new lows of absurdity. Beneath the ...

Acton Institute One of two Acton Commentaries for the week.
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Rev. Robert A. Sirico looks at the administration’s health care reform initiative and warns of threats to human dignity, a “crowding out” of private initiative in the charitable sector, and a dampening of innovation and competitiveness in the health care industry.

Some of the aspects of the movement in ‘new economics’ highlighted by Sumita Kale sound quite promising. Fo...

Acton Institute New column by Rev. Sirico that was published in the Detroit News.
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As the health care debate moves to the U.S. Senate, much of the focus has been on how the Catholic bishops' support of the amendment by U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak, the Menominee Democrat, to prohibit the use of tax dollars to fund abortion was a major victory for the pro-life side. ...

My new column on health care was published in the Detroit News today. Full text follows: As the health care debate moves to the U.S. Senate, much of the focus has been on how the Catholic bishops’ support of the amendment by U.S. Rep. ...

Last week, I joined a group of Christian leaders in Washington to announce the publication of the Manhattan Declaration...

Awhile back I referenced the Post-Reformation Digital Library, a project which I had some role in developing. I’m appending below the full news release. This is a great resource that’s already getting some recognition around the world. It...

Contrary to the belief of some, the two realities referred to in the title of this post are not identical...

President Ronald Reagan was far from the common Republican. If anything he was the exception to the rule in a party dominated by moderates and pragmatists...

I have been thinking a lot about the way we sell church-related goods and services. I have been thinking about that and about Jesus overturning the tables of the money changers and sacrificial animal sellers in the temple...



















