Dear all,<\/p>\n
Following on from our last meeting on 2 November, our next meeting will be held virtually on\u00a0Monday, 7 December from 6 – 7:30pm GMT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Please look out for the Calendar invite with Zoom dial-in details, which I shall circulate under separate cover.<\/p>\n Dr. Sam Gregg will be our next guest speaker (bio below).<\/p>\n Our subject is :<\/p>\n Session 2: The origins of legal authority and the limits of the law<\/strong> As you can tell, a number of these points are being hotly debated in government, in the courts, and in the press. It should make for a lively discussion,\u00a0not least because the UK Government lockdown is subject to review on 2 December !<\/p>\n We look forward to ‘seeing you’ on the 7th December and will circulate later this week a couple of preparatory readings for those who are interested.<\/p>\n Jean P. Casey Dr. Samuel Gregg BIO<\/strong> Gregg oversees Acton\u2019s research program and team of scholars and is responsible for oversight of research international programing, including budgeting, management, personnel, publishing, and program development and implementation.<\/p>\n He is the author of thirteen books, including\u00a0Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(<\/em>2001),\u00a0On Ordered Liberty<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2003), his prize-winning\u00a0The Commercial Society<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2007),\u00a0Wilhelm R\u00f6pke\u2019s Political Economy<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2010),\u00a0Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2013),\u00a0For God and Profit: How Banking and Finance Can Serve the Common Good<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2016), and\u00a0Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2019). He has also co-edited books such as\u00a0Profit, Prudence and Virtue: Essays in Ethics, Business and Management<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2009), and\u00a0Natural Law, Economics and the Common Good<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(2012).<\/p>\n He has also been cited in the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>, the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0Forbes<\/em>, the\u00a0Weekly Standard<\/em>,\u00a0Time Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0Christian Science Monitor<\/em>, the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>, the\u00a0New Yorker<\/em>, and Holy See\u2019s\u00a0L\u2019Osservatore Romano<\/em>.<\/p>\n In 2001, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Member of the Mont P\u00e8lerin Society in 2004. In 2008, he was elected a member of the Philadelphia Society, and a member of the Royal Economic Society. In 2017, he was made a Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University.\u00a0He served as President of the Philadelphia Society from 2019-2020.<\/p>\n He is the General Editor of Lexington Books\u2019 Studies in Ethics and Economics Series. He also sits on the Academic Advisory Boards of Campion College, Sydney; the La Fundaci\u00f3n Burke, Madrid; the Instituto Fe y Libertad; and the Institute of Economic Affairs, London; as well as the editorial boards of the\u00a0Journal of Markets and Morality<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Revista Valores en la sociedad industrial<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear all, Following on from our last meeting on 2 November, our next meeting will be held virtually on\u00a0Monday, 7 December from 6 – 7:30pm GMT. Please look out for the Calendar invite with Zoom dial-in details, which I shall circulate under separate cover. Dr. Sam Gregg will be our next guest speaker (bio below). Our subject is : Session 2: The origins of legal authority and the limits of the law Topics to be addressed: \u00b7\u00a0Social contract theory and the limits of state authority as seen by Catholic\u00a0social teaching \u00b7\u00a0The role of the conscience and the right to conscientious…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15094,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13332\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centesimusannus-stg.catholica.va\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTopics to be addressed:
\n\u00b7\u00a0Social contract theory and the limits of state authority as seen by Catholic\u00a0social teaching
\n\u00b7\u00a0The role of the conscience and the right to conscientious objection
\n\u00b7\u00a0Curtailing civil liberties \u2013 when\/if ever is this justified?
\n\u00b7\u00a0The legality and morality of government responses to Covid-19: lockdowns,\u00a0restrictions on fundamental freedoms; track and trace; mandated church\u00a0closures; mandatory vaccines<\/p>\n
\nUK Coordinator, CAPPF<\/p>\n
\nDr. Samuel Gregg\u00a0<\/strong>is research director at the Acton Institute. He has written and spoken extensively on questions of political economy, economic history, ethics in finance, and natural law theory. He has an MA from the University of Melbourne, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in moral philosophy and political economy from the University of Oxford.<\/p>\n