EIN: 52-1628303

Institute on Religion and Public Life, Inc.

New York, NY 10010

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[From a report by NCRP]

The Institute on Religion and Public Life and the Acton Institute both seek to influence the religious community through seminars, colloquial sponsored research, book projects, newsletters and joumals. They work to instill a stronger appreciation of the morality of capitalism in the U.S. and around the world.

IRPL publishes First Things (grants) 10 times a year. In the words of its editor, conservative Catholic Richard Neuhaus, "It would be disingenuous of us to pretend to an attitude of disinterestedness and neutrality in the culture wars that wage about us." The President of the Acton Institute expresses a similar social viewpoint, drawing on Hoover Institution Fellow Thomas Sowell's notion of a "conflict of visions" to pose the following two questions:

"Will we pursue an unconstrained and unattainable vision of society planned and controlled from the center? Or will we recognize the limits of the state and place decision making with those most affected, granting the poor the liberty and property needed to restore a vibrant community and economic life?"

May 21, 2018

IRPL at IRC Right Web

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/irpl.php

Andrew J. Weaver
Media Transparency
August 10, 2006

Neocon Catholics target mainline Protestants

Institute on Religion and Democracy leads serious breach of ecumenical good will

When President George W. Bush met with religious journalists in May of 2004, the religious authority he cited most often was not a fellow United Methodist or even another Protestant. It was a man the president affectionately calls "Father Richard." He is Catholic priest Richard John Neuhaus, who, the President explained, "helps me articulate these [religious] things". A senior administration official confirmed to Time magazine that Neuhaus "‘does have a fair amount of under-the-radar influence' on such policies as abortion, stem-cell research, cloning and the defense-of-marriage amendment"

Bill Berkowitz
MediaTransparency.org
December 13, 2003

Corporate captives

story.php?storyID=10

The Acton Institute attacks Health Care Without Harm and environmentally conscious religious activists

Bill Berkowitz
MediaTransparency.org
July 12, 2003

The Corporate/Think Tank Complex

story.php?storyID=11

Father Robert Sirico's Acton Institute and ExxonMobil lash out against corporate responsibility activists