Encounters - 2004

Our Lady of Guadalupe. Wikimedia Commons

Ecclesia in America? An Urgent Question

EncountersLorenzo Albacete

The positive contribution of Hispanic culture to the Anglo-Saxon world and the Church’s challenge in serving the Hispanic presence: an interview with Mario Paredes.

University of Chicago, Illinois. Via Wikimedia Commons

Freedom as Ideal, Freedom as Ideology

EncountersLorenzo Albacete

Traces spoke with Jean Bethke Elshtain, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, prominent political philosopher and author of over 20 books.

Family. Photo by Eric Ward via Wikimedia Commons

The Family in Crisis

EncountersMaurizio Maniscalco

An interview with Professor Robert Royal, President of the Faith and Reason Institute in Washington, DC, about the social benefits of the family and its breakdown today, and the central role of education.