Ave Maria in the Afternoon – September 17, 2024 – Hour 1

Author: Bryant Schoenle Published on: September 17, 2024 Published in: Ave Maria in the Afternoon

Several prominent universities have announced they are adopting a position of “institutional neutrality” rather than make political statements. Steve McGuire has more. We also discuss “fake history” with Joe Pearce and Catholic Civil Rights heroes with Roxanne King.

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Marcus’s Monologue: Church and State

What is the meaning of the Separation of Church and State? Is it intended to protect the government from the Church – or the Church from the government? Marcus discusses.

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We can separate church and state, but not religion and politics

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It took years, but elite colleges are learning the value of institutional neutrality

Colleges and universities are getting out of the business of making political statements. Since the spring, several prominent institutions have announced they will no longer issue statements on social and political events. We discuss it with Steven McGuire.

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It took years, but elite colleges are learning the value of institutional neutrality

Steve McGuire — Steven McGuire is the Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom at the American Council of Trustees and Alumni. Follow him on Twitter @sfmcguire79

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Exposing the False Narrative of Fake History

We live in an age when fake news is rampant. Yet fake news is nothing new. It’s been around for centuries. False narratives about what is happening now and what has happened in the past are always with us. They are a curse which prevents us from understanding where we’ve come from, where we are, and where we’re going. We talk more with Joseph Pearce.

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Exposing the False Narrative of Fake History

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joseph-pearce — Joseph Pearce is the author of numerous literary works including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare and Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know. He's Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative, St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair of Catholic Studies at Thomas More College in Merrimack, NH, editor of the St. Austin Review, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. Visit his website at jpearce.co.

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Catholic Heroes of Civil and Human Rights

Throughout history we can find examples of Catholic men and women –lay and religious, canonized saints and ordinary car mechanics—who defied all odds to advance civil and human rights since the turn of the eighteenth century. We get to know some of them with Roxanne King.