I have been in the student presentation sessions at the BYU Stand for the Family conference. The Ruth Institute sponsored the Call for Papers. We arranged for the judging and awarding of prizes. We had over 150 papers entered in our essay contest. The first place winner for undergraduate papers was Alyssa Brown. Her paper was a critique of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. She won first place from a field of over 100 entries in the undergraduate category.
Steve Francis won first place for the graduate papers with a paper on the New Natural Law and the definition of marriage. Sterling Olander won the first prize for a paper he wrote for a Law and Logic class, “Logical Fallacies Used by the Courts to Justify Same Sex Marriage Validate a Slippery Slope.” All these papers are works in progress, and may be substantially revised before they get published. We will be posting them on the Ruth Institute Marriage Library site, in the meantime.
Thanks to all students for their efforts!
Catholic Teaching Validated by Lived Experience
January 8, 2025
In this conversation, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse and Dr. Deborah Savage discuss the Catholic Church’s teachings on contraception, the importance of lived experience in understanding these teachings, and the challenges posed by the sexual revolution.
