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El Greco, "The Laocoön" (crop)

The Human Figure in Art: Watch Now!

Things: Issue Two

Humanum is delighted to offer a video recording of our first in-person event, a presentation by Dr. Sarah Bond on "The Human Figure in Art," to all of our readers. Click here to enjoy it in its entirety.

The presentation took place on April 14, 2023 at the John Paul II Shrine in Washington, D.C.

We thank all who attended and helped make it a success!



Posted on April 28, 2023

Recommended Reading

Konrad Adenauer in 1965.

Comparing Subsidiarity in America v. Germany

Paul Cupp

For a nation built on the ideal of individual liberty, America has a bureaucracy problem. Perhaps no other nation has ever prided itself so much on the principle of individual liberty while also relying on a centralized Leviathan to administer its political apparatus. I don’t mean to say that it is the most bureaucratized nation (it is outdone by both France, China, and others in that regard), but the United States has a unique blind spot about the proportions of its bureaucracy, and this represents a contradiction in its public philosophy.

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Cecil W. Stoughton, Demonstration in Washington, D.C. (1970)

The Roots of American Disorder

Michael Hanby

There are few honest people of any political persuasion, and perhaps no serious ones, who would say that they are happy with what our nation has become. The United States is now a bloated technocratic empire bearing little resemblance to the democratic republic envisioned by its Founders. We are still nominally governed by our eighteenth-century Constitution, but the real sovereignty of this vast, centerless regime seems to be diffused among a multitude of governmental and para-governmental agencies, each with its own mechanisms of enforcement and which together comprise a complex organism that somehow gives each of us unprecedented power while nevertheless leaving us powerless. 

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Wounds in the Body: A Thoughtful Response to the Abuse Crisis in the Church

Sr. Annie Devlin

In 2021 Catholics in France were deeply shaken by the publication of a report revealing the dimensions of abuse within the Catholic Church there: content known at least in part by some, suspected by others, but which had never been documented as such, en masse. In the same period, Dom Dysmas de Lassus, Superior General of the Carthusians, emerged from the silence characteristic of his order and published a 446-page book entitled Risks and Aberrations in the Religious Life.

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