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Back to the December 2004 Newsletter Index
Getting The Acton Message Across
The Acton Institute strives to promote a free and virtuous
society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by
religious principles.
To do this, Acton holds seminars, sponsors academic research,
and publishes a wide variety of books, monographs, periodicals
and articles.
Here is a sampling of their activities:
- Journal of Markets and Morality – a peer-reviewed academic
journal promoting dialog between theologians, philosophers,
economists and other scholars on morality in the marketplace.
- Religion and Liberty – an Acton journal that delves
thoughtfully into issues in the areas of religion, politics,
economics, literature and culture. Sample articles:
“The Morality of Intellectual Property Rights,” “An
Orthodox Look at Liberty and Economics in Russia,” “The
Culture of Consumerism: A Catholic and Personalist
Critique.”
- The 2004 Catholic High School Honor Roll - recognized
the top 50 Catholic high schools in the U.S., based on academics,
Catholic identity and civic education. (Mount de Sales Academy,
Catonsville, Md., made the list!)
- Toward Effective Compassion Conference – sponsored by
Acton’s Center for Effective Compassion, the December 2
conference, held in Washington, D.C., addressed practical
and effective ways for charitable organizations to help
people, as opposed to feel-good efforts that may inadvertently
do more harm than good.
- Environmental Newsletter – In its September 2004 edition,
Acton’s online newsletter takes a hard look at environmental
activists’ efforts to ban genetically modified foods. “These
activists, who must believe that ideology is a good substitute
for bread on the table, need to understand some simple truths,”
writes Rev. Michael Oluwatuyi from Nigeria.
- Mainstream media – In October, Acton co-founder and
president, Fr. Robert Sirico, on the syndicated Laura Ingraham
radio show, demolished Sen. John Kerry’s excuses for his
pro-abortion stance; and in a column in The Detroit News,
he presciently pointed out the high priority American voters
give to religious and moral values, weeks before exit polls
confirmed his assertion.
- Acton T-shirts! – You can impress your friends with
a T-shirt with Lord Acton’s picture and his
famous quote, “Power . . . corrupts,” from the online Acton
Book Shoppe, at www.acton.org.
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