Welcome to Tom Berg!

I'd like to welcome our newest blogista, Tom Berg of St. Thomas Law in Minnesota. He is the director of St Tommy's new Terrence J. Murphy Institute for Catholic Law, Thought and Policy, which is sponsoring the program next weekend on "The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Good Society," about which Tom's colleague Greg Sisk posted below (Tom: I've almost figured out what I'm going to say on Saturday!). Tom's bio in the sidebar will provide the vital statistics, but I will note that Tom is a noted Church/State scholar, as well as a very thoughtful commentator on many aspects of religion in law, politics and culture. As our first non-Catholic blogista, he will add a dash of ecumenical spice to our discussions. I know that all the MOJers are delighted to have Tom aboard, and that our readers will benefit from his insights. A word of advice to Tom: hanging around with all these Catholics can be dangerous.... The phrase "all roads lead to Rome" has more than one meaning!

-- Mark