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The Rise of the Nones and American Law

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.