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A superb in-depth biography of Lord Acton, the Institute's namesake, that makes excellent and extensive use of archival materials. This biography describes Acton's extended family of European aristocrats, his cosmopolitan upbringing, and his disrupte...

For it is a most striking thing that the views of pure democracy...were almost entirely unrepresented in [the American] convention.
~ Lord Acton

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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

Paola Fantini has expanded her blog post on Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone's new work on Catholic social doctrine into a book review for the forthcoming Religion & Liberty quarterly published by the Acton Institute. She has also translated the prologue to the book by Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Kirill. These articles are the first to translate anything from Cardinal Bertone's “The Ethics of the Common Good in Catholic Social Doctrine” (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2008) into English. The Italian title is "L'etica del Bene Comune nella Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa."

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In the Liberal Tradition

Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973)

Jacques Maritain (1882 - 1973)“Man is by no means for the State. The State is for man.”