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Laudato Si’ called the Catholic community to an ecological conversion, a reorientation of our habits of mind toward a deeper consideration of creation and our responsibilities for its care. Is this a radical innovation? Or can we discern an intellectual patrimony at the heart of the discussion? In this lecture, Christopher Thompson invites us to reflect more deeply on the elements of ecological concern and consider the intellectual tradition inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas as a resource and guide going forward. “Green Thomism,” Thompson proposes, opens a path toward a renewed engagement with the Thomistic tradition as well as its contribution to contemporary ecological concern. …
Join former Planned Parenthood clinic director and author of the memoir "Unplanned" Abby Johnson, alongside co-director and screenwriter Chuck Konzelman ND '82, co-director and producer Cary Solomon, and de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture Cardinal George Fellow Mary FioRito for an interactive discussion about the upcoming film Unplanned…
The McGrath Institute for Church Life hosts the 2019 Human Dignity lecture, with world-renowned speaker, Obianuju “Uju” Ekeocha. Ms. Ekeocha is the founder and president of Culture of Life Africa, and author of “Target Africa: Ideological Neo-colonialism of the Twenty-first Century.” She has spoken before the United Nations and the Canadian Parliament. She has also appeared on the BBC’s “Focus on Africa.”…
"Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." – Margaret Sanger, The Pivot of Civilization
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