Ruth Institute Blog

The president of the U.S. episcopal conference drew an unusually large crowd at the Mormon Brigham Young University, telling his audience that Catholics and Mormons have to unite to defend common values.
Cardinal Francis George, archbishop of Chicago, addressed a group of about 12,000 on Tuesday, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.
“I’m personally grateful,” Cardinal George said, “that, after 180 years of living mostly apart from one another, Catholics and Latter-day Saints have come to see one another as trustworthy partners in the defense of shared moral principles.”

The Ruth Institute will be providing speakers for the Stand for the Family Symposium at BYU. We are also sponsoring the student Essay Contests, which attracted over 150 entries from undergraduates, graduate students and law students. We are psyched!