Catholic Social Scientists at St. John's

The Society of Catholic Social Scientists gathered recently at St. John's University Law School in New York.  I was not able to attend, but it looks like it would have been worth my while, with speakers including Richard John Neuhaus, Abp. Charles Chaput, John Breen, Edward Gaffney, Joseph Koterski, S.J., and our own Richard Myers, to name just a few.  Abp. Chaput's address is available here.  An excerpt:

People often say we're living at a "post-Christian" moment. That's supposed to describe the fact that Western nations have abandoned or greatly downplayed their Christian heritage in recent decades. But our "post-Christian" moment actually looks a lot like the pre-Christian moment. The signs of our times in the developed nations-morally, intellectually, spiritually and even demographically-are uncomfortably similar to the signs in the world at the time of the Incarnation.