Panel Discussion series relating to Free Speech "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise," said the late Winston Churchill in 1947. "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried . . ." Join the panel as they consider...
Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope, the meaning of death, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...
Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope, the meaning of death, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...
Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope, the meaning of death, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...
Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope, the meaning of death, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...
The Las Casas Institute in partnership with St Mary's University and the Pastoral Review are holding a two-part online symposium on Fratelli Tutti. In the first part of the event, the Las Casas Institute is hosting a Zoom panel discussion entitled “Being Without Borders: What does Fratelli Tutti mean for British Society?” Inter-faith dialogue: Professor...
Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope, the meaning of death, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. The discussion will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars...
Book launch Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking Through Catholic Social Teaching by Edward Hadas For more than a century, the teaching authority of the Catholic Church has attempted to walk along with the modern world, criticizing what is bad and praising what is good. Counsels of Imperfection described the current state of that fairly bumpy...
Reading Group: Pope Benedict XVI's Spe Salvi Over six weeks the reading group will discuss this too often neglected encyclical. Topics include the nature of specifically Christian hope, the meaning of death, and the secularisation and loss of hope in the modern world. The encyclical can be accessed here. The discussion will be led by...
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...