Scenes of Clerical Life
January 15, 2001 · Magazine, Russell Hittinger, Books and Arts
A Bishop's Tale
Catholic Scholar and Legal Philosopher
Russell Hittinger
3 articles 1997–2001
Russell Hittinger is a Catholic intellectual and scholar of legal and political philosophy, known for his work on natural law theory and Catholic social teaching. He is the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard on Catholic theology, papal thought, and the life of the Church.
The Catholic Theology of John
January 4, 1999 · Magazine, Russell Hittinger, Books and Arts
During the presidential campaign of 1960, John F. Kennedy, addressing a group of Baptist ministers in Houston, declared that he believed "in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute." His religion, he swore, was "his own private affair," and no public official should request…
THE POPE HITS HOME
June 23, 1997 · Magazine, Russell Hittinger
IN HIS FOURTH VISIT since leaving Krakow for Rome, John Paul II returned home last week at a crucial moment for his native Poland. Sometimes comically, but more often tragically, the cycles of modern European history either begin or end in Poland. The historian Norman Davies aptly called Poland "…