Murphy Institute co-director Msgr. Martin Schlag and program manager Michelle Rash partnered with the Minnesota Catholic Conference to offer a 7-course series on Catholic Social Teaching for Latinos at St. Odilia’s, making the treasures of the social doctrine available to all Catholics. Read more about this exciting new initiative in its recent coverage by The Catholic Spirit.
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Murphy Institute co-director Professor Gregory Sisk will speak at the March 23 symposium “The Rise of the Nones and American Law” hosted by the Center for Law and Religion at St. John’s Law School and the St. John’s Journal for Catholic Legal Studies. Professor Sisk has done extensive study of the growing demographic of “nones”, those who do not claim any religious affiliation, most recently featured in his 2021 paper “Where to Place the “Nones” in the Church and State Debate? Empirical Evidence from Establishment Clause Cases in Federal Court” co-authored by Professor Michael Heise of Cornell Law School.
Additional information on the symposium is available on the St. John’s Center for Law and Religion website.
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A Simple Priest with a Big Dream: Monsignor Terrence Murphy’s Vision of a Catholic University
A digital archive featuring a collection of Msgr. Murphy’s original manuscripts is now available for viewing in full. This collection of over 150 sermons, dedications and addresses was a generous gift made by the Murphy family to the Murphy Institute and we are thrilled to have it accessible to the public.
Former Murphy Institute graduate assistant Joan Wieland (’20, ’22 CSMA) was integral to the publishing efforts of the archive and had her graduate student essay “A Simple Priest with a Big Dream: Monsignor Terrence Murphy’s Vison of a Catholic University” featured in the fall edition of Lumen magazine. Joan also authored a foreword to the archive which is available along with the collection.
The Msgr. Murphy archive is accessible through the Murphy Institute homepage.
Murphy Institute co-director and law professor Gregory Sisk recently published his article “How Qualified Immunity Condones Rogue Behavior by Government Officers” which is now available on SSRN.
Murphy Institute co-director and law professor Gregory Sisk conducted a study that measured faculty scholarly impact in law schools nationwide. His study was the topic of an article by Reuters where he explained how he came to rank the nation’s top universities.
An office space on the fourth floor of the School of Law that has long been overflow storage was renovated this summer into a library for Murphy Institute. The catalog available was curated to include texts relevant to the intersection of law, policy, and Catholic thought with a bulk of the collection coming from the generous donation of Professor Thomas Berg, a founding co-director of the institute.
The Murphy Institute library is located in MSL 441. A full catalog listing is available here.