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2 weeks ago | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Jamie Hall |Ryan T. Anderson |Henry Olsen
Published April 30, 2025 First Things From “Letters from Rome 2025—The Papal Interregnum No. 3.”“It’s a perfect time to be here in Rome,” said a bishop friend this week, “because it’s a great experience of the Church—in all her murkiness and all her splendor.” True words, those.
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1 month ago | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Andrew Walker |George Weigel |Nathanael Blake
Published April 1, 2025 First Things Nobody wants to live to be a hundred, except the guy who’s ninety-nine. Or so the saying goes. But it’s not true. Plenty of people have an appetite for life well beyond a century, and they look to science to make it possible. And understandably so. The average American life expectancy in 1900 was forty-seven years.
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1 month ago | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Natalie Dodson |Alexandra DeSanctis |Stanley Kurtz
Published March 26, 2025 The Catholic Thing Here’s a fun fact: In December 1990, the planet had exactly one website, created by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. A year later, total global websites numbered 50.
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1 month ago | 
eppc.org | Natalie Dodson |Rachel Morrison |Francis X. Maier |George Weigel
Published March 17, 2025 PDF On Tuesday, March 17, 20245, EPPC scholars Rachel N. Morrison and Natalie Dodson met with government officials in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) to discuss the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) forthcoming interim final rule (IFR) “Reproductive Health Services”.
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1 month ago | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Natalie Dodson |George Weigel |Andrew Walker
March 19, 2025 (Washington, DC): A first-of-its-kind resource, “Treating Infertility: The New Frontier of Reproductive Medicine,” co-published today by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) and the Heritage Foundation, provides an accessible introduction to restorative reproductive medicine (RRM), an alternative to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies.
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1 month ago | 
eppc.org | Eric Kniffin |Francis X. Maier |Natalie Dodson |George Weigel
Published March 12, 2025 PDF On March 12, Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow Eric Kniffin filed a Supreme Court amicus brief in St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond. This case began after the Oklahoma Attorney General sued the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board for welcoming a partnership with St. Isidore.
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2 months ago | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Nathanael Blake |Stephen White
Published March 6, 2025 These remarks were delivered at Portsmouth Abbey’s Providence symposium on March 6, 2025Our theme today is “pilgrims of hope,” and I promise to talk about that. But I need to start with a caveat. When I sat down to draft these comments, I discovered, rather awkwardly, that all of my heroes are pessimists.
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2 months ago | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Carter Snead |Carrie Gress |Patrick Brown
Published February 20, 2025 Wall Street Journal Father Raymond de Souza makes fine points in his piece “The Pope vs. JD Vance on Immigration” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 14). But the topic warrants additional consideration. First, the Catholic Church has a preferential option for the poor, including immigrants, and especially the persecuted.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Stephen White |Andrew Walker |Carl R. Trueman
Published February 12, 2025 The Catholic Thing Earlier this month, in its regular Artificial Intelligence section, the Wall Street Journal ran a 2,000-word feature – for a newspaper, that’s serious ink – on the AI program “FutureYou.” Developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), FutureYou allows you to talk with your 80-year-old self.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
eppc.org | Francis X. Maier |Carl R. Trueman |Clare Morell |Nathanael Blake
Published February 3, 2025 First Things History is a heartless teacher. Three hundred years before Christ, Carthage was a prosperous commercial empire dominating the Mediterranean, sustained and protected by the world’s most powerful navy. Rome was an ambitious, expanding land power stymied by its weakness on the seas.
