Author: Elizabeth Kirk

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We often hear, quite rightly, that the Church and her members should “go to the margins,” to “meet people where they are,” and to practice the art of human encounter, especially with the vulnerable, the poor, and the downtrodden. As Pope Francis exhorted in Evangelii Gaudium, “all of us are asked to obey his call […]

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I was honored to participate recently in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences Workshop entitled “Aquinas’ Social Ontology and Natural Law in Perspective: Insights for and from the Social Sciences.” It was a tremendous privilege as the first day of the conference took place at Fossanova Abbey, where St. Thomas Aquinas died 750 years ago, on […]