Spiritual Libertarianism
On April 6, Mark Silk gave the following talk at a Boston College colloquium titled “Why Libertarianism Isn’t Liberal.” Thirty years ago, when I was in the process of transforming (or should I say...
View ArticleSame Sex Marriage Comes to Alabama
By Connor Flynn On March 12, 2014, Alabama Circuit Court Judge Karen Hall rejected a petition for divorce from Shrie and Kirsten Richmond, two women who were married in Idaho in 2012. Granting them a...
View ArticleDavid Gibson reports on pope’s American tour
By William Winter ’18 Tight security, careful orchestration, and anticipated criticism kept Pope Francis from indulging his usual penchant for speaking off the cuff and wading into crowds, veteran...
View ArticleShowdown at the Bishops Synod
Print by Stephen Alcorn By Mark Silk Everyone interested in the future of the Catholic church is now focused on the Synod of Bishops on the Family – the showdown in Rome between progressive forces...
View ArticlePapa Francisco, Si; Catholic Social Teaching, Not So Much
By Andrew Walsh America loves a papal visit. For the tenth time since the Pope Paul VI made a one-day stop in New York in 1964, a familiar pattern of joyful adulation played out as Pope Francis...
View ArticleNo, The Anglican Communion Did Not Suspend the Episcopal Church
By Frank Kirkpatrick Just when you thought the travails of the Episcopal Church in the United States (known as TEC) over issues of sexuality had settled down or gone underground, a group of leaders of...
View ArticleObamacare’s Contraception Mandate, Post-Scalia
by Christina Claxton ’16 “Uterus is back on the menu at the Supreme Court,” wrote Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick in her November 6 dispatch on the day’s big judicial news. The Supreme Court had agreed to hear...
View ArticleJonathan Sarna, 2016 Greenberg Distinguished Fellow, Provides New Insight on...
by Andrew Walsh Evidence is emerging that Jewish voters were mobilizing to participate in American political campaigns far earlier than previously suspected—as early as Abraham Lincoln’s 1864...
View ArticleE.J. Dionne 2016 Berkman Award Winner for Excellence in Journalism
by Christine McCarthy McMorris… On Thursday, November 17, 2016 Mr. Dionne visited Trinity College as the seventh recipient of the College’s Moses Berkman Memorial Journalism Award, in recognition of...
View ArticleLeonard Greenberg – A source of towering strength and commitment
Leonard E. Greenberg, who died Monday at the age of 89, was a native son of Hartford who never lacked the courage of his convictions. He walked into Trinity College as one of the local boys – mostly...
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