On Monday night, Parliament passed a bill allowing Prime Minister Theresa May to withdraw the United Kingdom from the European Union under Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. On the same day

Communicating the underlying pillars of a free and virtuous society is sometimes like describing the Kingdom of God: We can envision it, but detailing its operations to non-believers can be

Carnival celebrations in the southern provinces of Limburg and Noord-Brabant have ended. Reality is setting in, and we now find ourselves in the final stretch toward the Dutch parliamentary

In a recent article for The Catholic World Report, Acton’s research director, Samuel Gregg criticizes the European Union for its aggressive secularism and separating itself from its

As Easter approaches, who could imagine the holiday without Cadbury’s creme eggs (under the original recipe, at least)? Appropriately, the founding of Cadbury’s, whose invention has become a

In my hometown in the southeast of England, the evidence of generations of philanthropy can be found everywhere. In the middle of the nineteenth century, one of the wealthier residents of

As a setback in the House of Lords leaves the UK debating how best to accomplish its departure from the European Union, perhaps the most neglected question is the moral one. Rev. Dr. Richard

One of the aspects that I left out of my article yesterday on fifth European Catholic-Orthodox Forum statement worth noting is its declaration on the origins of religious liberty. Freedom of

Leaders from the world’s two largest churches say that Christians in the West are facing “unprecedented” hurdles to living out their vocation according to their conscience. A statement from

When Tzvetan Todorov died on February 7, the Bulgarian/French philosopher and literary critic was lamented only in certain intellectual ghettoes. To the men and women eulogizing Todorov in

Temporary employment is permanent in Europe, especially for the young. A recent article by Liz Alderman for the New York Times rips the veil on an increasingly worrisome trend that, given

On Wednesday, February 15, the European Parliament approved the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), a free trade agreement abolishing most trade restrictions between the