Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. This is an important and exciting book about how we do and should think about right and wrong. MacIntyre tries to combine Marx and Thomas – we will try to decide how well he succeeds. The group will be...
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. This is an important and exciting book about how we do and should think about right and wrong. MacIntyre tries to combine Marx and Thomas – we will try to decide how well he succeeds. The group will be...
The Road to Reconciliation and Restoration: a journey of courage and compassion The 2022 Las Casas Annual Lecture will be given by Baroness Nuala O'Loan. This is a hybrid event, free and open to all. Registration is required. If you would like to attend the lecture in person, please email lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk If you would like...
Catholic Peacebuilding and Mining - Integral Peace, Development, and Ecology Edited by Caesar A. Montevecchio and Gerard F. Powers This book explores the role of Catholic peacebuilding in addressing the global mining industry. Mining is intimately linked to issues of conflict, human rights, sustainable development, governance, and environmental justice. As an institution of significant scope and...
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. This is an important and exciting book about how we do and should think about right and wrong. MacIntyre tries to combine Marx and Thomas – we will try to decide how well he succeeds. The group will be...
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Alasdair MacIntyre's Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. This is an important and exciting book about how we do and should think about right and wrong. MacIntyre tries to combine Marx and Thomas – we will try to decide how well he succeeds. The group will be...
A lecture by Professor Samuel Moyn, Henry R Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale University, on the Catholic contribution to modern human rights. Respondent: Edward Hadas. Chaired by Dr Clare Broome Saunders.
Discussion group Weekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day's The Long Loneliness. Dorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism, she founded the Catholic Worker movement, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography, The Long...
Debates about Catholic social doctrine often revolve around whether a given theory or practice is compatible with the magisterium or not.  There is a scholarly literature on the nature and scope of the magisterium, but little has been written on the magisterium as it pertains to social doctrine. This paper explores what the magisterial documents and...