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Robert A. Sirico
Father Sirico is co-founder and president emeritus of the Acton Institute (acton.org) and the founder of the St. John Henry Newman Institute (jhni.org), both in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Things Worth Remembering: The Divine Beauty of Imperfection
Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Pied Beauty’ teaches us to see in every speckled, contradictory thing an icon of the God who did not disdain to be born among…
December 28, 2025
Robert A. Sirico

The Dissident Beijing Can’t Break
Closing arguments start Thursday in the trial that could jail Jimmy Lai, a devout Catholic and Hong Kong’s most famous pro-democracy activist, for life.
August 13, 2025
Robert A. Sirico
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