Las Casas Institute

The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The 'Christian Literary Imagination Series' will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in...

A Transatlantic Dialogue October 2020 is an intensely busy month around the world for elections in democratic states and other societies. Before Americans officially vote on 3 November, at least 11 other national elections and three major referenda will have taken place—from New Zealand to Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania to Bolivia, Tanzania to Chile. The stakes are...

The Christian Literary Imagination Series Over the course of the 2020-2021 academic year, the Future of the Humanities Project is sponsoring a series of webinars on the Christian literary imagination in collaboration with Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The 'Christian Literary Imagination Series' will explore the role and function of the arts and humanities in...

In his recent encyclical, Fratelli tutti, Pope Francis presents a 're-envisaging the social role of property'. While the Pope restates and develops Catholic social teaching (CST) on this point, the fundamentals of this teaching are perennial. While affirming the right to private property, CST underscores divine purposes integral to this right. These purposes contextualize this right...