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The Ethics and Public Policy Center is Washington’s premier research institute on issues of religion and society. The Catholic Studies Project has been an integral part of the Center’s program for the past twenty-five years. [Read More]

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Life: A 'Dangerous' Choice By Colleen Carroll Campbell Friday, February 5, 2010 Only abortion could rouse America's feminist establishment to defend the sanctity of Super Bowl Sunday.

Papal Environmentalism: Pro-Life and Pro-Marriage By George Weigel Wednesday, February 3, 2010 According to Pope Benedict XVI, a consistent Catholic environmentalism must include the defense of life from conception until natural death and the defense of marriage as the stable union of a man and a woman.

It's 2008 All Over Again By Colleen Carroll Campbell Friday, January 29, 2010 Barack Obama's presidency was supposed to unfold like a scene from "Avatar." Instead, it's looking more like "Groundhog Day."

Lord, Please Don’t Hear This Prayer – Yet Again By George Weigel Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Formulaic Prayers of the Faithful used in many Catholic parishes seem to assume that the world of politics is, somehow, the real world: after a brief intercessory nod to the pope, the bishops, or both, we're immediately invited to pray for sundry social and political causes, never identified as such but wrapped in the gauziness of Feel Good Prayer.

EPPC on Book TV

Weigel Featured on "In Depth"

On Sunday, June 1, EPPC Distinguished Senior Fellow George Weigel was featured on C-SPAN2/Book TV's program "In Depth."

Click here to view the program online.

The Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society
Now in its 18th year

EPPC's annual Tertio Millennio Seminar in Kraków, Poland is accepting applications for the upcoming session. To learn more, visit the seminar's homepage: TertioMillennioSeminar.org.

Faith & Culture

A New Christian Vision of Marriage

EPPC Fellow Colleen Carroll Campbell talks with theologian Mary Shivanandan, author of Crossing the Threshold of Love, about how Pope John Paul II's theology of the body relates to marriage. The television show, "Faith & Culture," airs Sunday, Feb. 7, at 10:30 a.m. ET, and Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 11 p.m. ET, on EWTN, the world's largest religious media network.

Relevant Catholic Commentary

The Catholic Difference

Read timely commentary written by Catholic Studies director, George Weigel published nationally in The Catholic Difference, a syndicated column.

An Exchange

War and Statecraft
EPPC's George Weigel debates the Archbishop of Canterbury

In the March 2004 issue of First Things, Senior Fellow George Weigel participates in an exchange with Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, on just war theory and America's fight against terrorism.