Added as a speaker to Portsmouth Abbey’s conference on Catholicism and the American Experience , being held June 7th to 9th, is Robert P. George, who will be speaking on “Religious Liberty and the Human Good.” Other speakers are George Weigel, who’ll be talking on “Catholics in an Unfamiliar America,” the Bishop of Providence, Thomas Tobin, Roger Kimball, the editor of The New Criterion , former New York Times religion editor Peter Steinfels, and Orthodox writer Jim Forest, a friend and comrade of Dorothy Day’s. Friends who have gone to previous conferences commend it.
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