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Video: Is Capitalism Catholic?
On Wednesday, Acton’s President Rev. Robert Sirico was interviewed by the Rome bureau of Catholic News Service regarding the work of the Acton Institute. The Catholic News Service interview “Is...
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Novak Award Winner Assesses Spiritual, Vocational Crisis of Economy
Acton President Rev. Robert Sirico presents the 2012 Novak Award to Prof. Giovanni Patriarca An overflow crowd, which included two current and one former rector of Rome’s pontifical universities,...
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Interview: Rev. Sirico on the Market Economy and the Moral Life
Rev. Robert Sirico, author of “Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy,” appears at a Rome press conference for his book. The Catholic News Agency recently interviewed Acton’s...
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Novak Award Winner reflects on influences of Benedict, Michael Novak
Rome contributor to ZENIT, Stefanie DeAngelo, recently interviewed the Acton Institute’s 2012 Novak Award winner, Professor Giovanni Patriarca. During the interview Prof. Patriarca speaks candidly...
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Video: Sirico on Ayn Rand’s ‘false gospel’
Acton President Rev. Robert A. Sirico appeared in a a video interview released yesterday by Catholic News Service, following a press conference in Rome last week held to introduce his new book...
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Video: Novak Award Winner Says Religion Inspires Hope, Creativity in Crisis
Prof. Giovanni Patriarca, recipient of the Acton Institute’s 2012 Novak Award given recently in Rome at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, was interviewed by RomeReports Television News...
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Magnanimity and Humility Make for Good Entrepreneurs
Alexandre Havard leading a recent “Virtuous Leadership” seminar with CEOs and entrepreneurs in Latvia, one of the most industrialized and wealthy republics of the former Soviet Union Read more on...
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After Pope Benedict Resigns, Fight Against ‘Dictatorship of Relativism’ Goes On
Today, Acton’s Rome office and the world were stunned by what the Dean of the College of Cardinals said was a “bolt out of the blue”: just after midday Benedict XVI informed the public that he would be...
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Benedict Bids Farewell: Church Alive, Not Sinking
I was one of the estimated 200,000 faithful who arose at the crack of dawn to join the crowds swelling St. Peter’s Square and its surrounding streets. I was also joined by millions more by way of...
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Arrivederci Benedetto!
With an elegant white papal helicopter swirling over our heads, Benedict XVI flew into Castel Gandolfo for a final word to faithful living in the diocese of Albano Laziale—my adopted Italian home—and...
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Errata Corrige
I have corrected an error of mistaken identity published on the Acton blog as an audio repost (now corrected here) and reposted with transcript content here. In these posts, I was relating a personal...
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Eulogies to Margaret Thatcher at the Pub (and the Cathedral)
The Pavilion End pub with St. Paul’s Cathedral in the background Last week following Acton’s seminar on morality, virtue, and Catholic social teaching with a group of financiers, bankers, and other...
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London’s Financial Leaders Challenged, Inspired at Acton Seminar
Last April 16, Acton’s Rome office co-sponsored a seminar in London on “The Morality of Work, Commerce and Finance: Lessons from Catholic Social Teaching” with St. Mary Moorfields, the only Roman...
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Desperate Entrepreneur Atop St. Peter’s Pleads to Pope
What a sweet spectacle it is to observe Rome’s pastel-colored cityscape and glowing white marble churches from above St. Peter’s Basilica just before sunset. But this is not what one Italian...
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Lumen Fidei: Lighting Our Way in the Year of Faith
It felt a little like the conclave week all over again inside the Vatican Press Office. Journalists cornering other journalists. Educated guesses and bets. Raised eyebrows of suspicion and plenty of...
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Pope Francis and President Obama discuss religious freedom, poverty alleviation
Pope Francis gives President Obama a copy of his exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel”)Pope Francis, the first Latin American pontiff, and Barack Obama, the first black American...
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PovertyCure’ and ‘Call of the Entrepreneur’ Screened to Central and Eastern...
Rome Office director Kishore Jayabalan presents PoveryCure at the Sorrento “Liberty Camp”On October 8-9, the director of Acton’s Rome office, Kishore Jayabalan, and its operations manager, Michael...
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Italian Edition of ‘The Good That Business Does’ Launched in Rome
Italian edition of “The Good That Business Does” by Robert G. Kennedy (Fede e Cultura, 2014)On Oct. 23, before a capacity-audience at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, the Acton Institute...
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Book Review: ‘Created for Greatness: The Power of Magnanimity’ by Alexandre...
By the end of January, most of us have given up on our New Year’s resolutions. These are goals we enthusiastically set during the silent nights of self-reflection that Christmas affords us. We...
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Holiday vs. Holy Day: Labor Day and Feast of St. Joseph the Worker
When divorced from God’s plan, work is merely labor, a rudderless everyday job. Today May 1 is Labor Day in Italy and in virtually all of Europe. Alas, it is hardly festive. There is not much to...
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