From Finnis to +Chaput

As Michael Moreland recently observed here, we at Villanova did a great job last Friday of celebrating and exploring the work of rockstar jurisprude John Finnis.  The conference was extraordinarily well attended, and, as one speaker commented to me afterwards, he learned more on that day than on any other single day of his life.  There was a lot going on!  The further good news is that, thanks to the speakers' generosity, nearly all of the papers delivered at the conference, including Prof. Finnis's keynote address, will be published in the Villanova Law Review.  That keynote address was a breathtakingly penetrating response to the eight papers and several formal comments delivered earlier in the day.  

Moving from strength to strength, I am delighted to announce that the Most Reverend Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., the recently installed Archbishop of Philadelphia, will deliver the keynote address at Seventh Annual Scarpa Conference on Law, Politics, and Culture to be held at Villanova early next fall. Archbishop Chaput requires no introduction here, of course, and I'll only add that the pre-election season will be an ideal time to hear from Archbishop Chaput on how Catholics can serve the nation by living their Catholic beliefs in political life.