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Letter from Rome: The Spiritual Politics of the Holy See
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: Lessons from Detroit’s Decline and Fall
Dear friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: The Noble Failure of Christian Politics
July 2013 Dear friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: Pope Francis’s Economic Examination of Conscience
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: What Italy can learn from the Iron Lady
May 2013 Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome: Pope Francis and Truly Helping the Poor
Dear friends of Istituto Acton,Tradition guides selection of new pope
The election of a new pope is inevitably a major news story, having been depicted numerous times in novels and movies. Encased in the exotic traditions of antiquity along with queues of cardinals draped in blood-red cassocks (intentionally symbolizing the blood they must be willing to shed for the church) while chanting ethereal invocations in Latin to the Holy Spirit — a conclave is the stuff of high drama.Letter from Rome: Elections Italian and Papal
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton, James Joyce once remarked, “Rome reminds me of a man who lives by exhibiting to travelers his grandmother’s corpse.” Not surprising coming from the most representative of 20 th century modernist novelists with his legendary hatred of the Roman Catholic Church. But for all of the ancient ruins and continuing attempts to assign the Church to the progressive ash heap of history, the Vatican and especially the office of the papacy manage to survive.Letter from Rome
Dear friends of Istituto Acton, This month’s letter is going to be about a single subject that has me particularly worked up at the moment: Taxes. And not only because my payroll taxes have gone up and shrunk my take-home pay, which was already far from luxurious given the dollar-exchange rate and the cost of living in a European capital rather than, say, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Cue pity-inducing violins now.)Letter from Rome
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Rome
December 2012 Dear friends of Istituto Acton,Letter from Boston
Dear Friends of Istituto Acton,