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Images from “Venice and Ravenna: Gates to the East.”

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TRI :: Jun.10.2008 :: Announcements :: No Comments »

On July 15, 1099, Godfrey de Bouillon led his warrior knights over the ramparts of Jerusalem and wrested control of the Holy City from the much larger force of Fatimid Muslims who were occupying it. On the 900th anniversary of this event that inspired Tasso’s magnificent epic, La Gerusalemme liberata, some 500 “physical and cultural descendants” of the Crusaders gathered in Jerusalem to apologize. Continue Reading »

Christopher Check :: Apr.11.2008 :: Announcements :: 2 Comments »

We’re pleased to announce the return of The Autodidact, which can now be found at the new site for The Rockford Institute Center for the Restoration of Humane Learning, TRIAcademy.org. Our thanks to Jim Vogel, who has designed and is maintaining the site, and who is working to promote the courses produced by the CRHL, which have been designed for autodidacts. Dr. Fleming’s latest post begins:

A student, troubled by conflicting views of Islam (religion of peace or religion of terrorism), writes in to ask:

“How does one weed through the often contradictory and opposing information found in our history books? . . .

To read more, visit TRIAcademy.org.

TRI :: Jun.06.2007 :: Announcements :: Comments Off

On Friday, May 18, The Rockford Institute hosted a public lecture featuring Chronicles’ Executive Editor Scott P. Richert on “Pope Benedict XVI and Islam: Allah the Irrational.” Mr. Richert gave an in-depth analysis of Pope Benedict XVI’s controversial and oft-misunderstood Regensburg speech. Watch for an ad on this site for a CD recording of this important lecture.

TRI :: May.21.2007 :: Announcements :: Comments Off

Welcome to the new virtual home of The Rockford Institute. Please bear with us as we clean up the construction mess and plan new additions.

We hope to introduce several new features in the next few weeks. For example: Stop by the new Events Blog, to find out the latest on Institute events.

If you notice a link that is not working, please report it in the comments. Thank you for your patience.

TRI :: May.03.2007 :: Announcements :: Comments Off

The Rockford Institute is pleased to welcome to its Board of Directors Dr. Peter Stanlis and Mr. Raymond J. Welder, III.

Dr. Stanlis is Professor Emeritus of English at Rockford College and has for decades been a giant on the American right. His scholarly work on British political theorist Edmund Burke, which includes Edmund Burke and the Natural Law, has contributed mightily to an authentic and profound understanding of the conservative tradition in American political thought. He was appointed by President Reagan to the National Council for the Humanities where he served for six years. A lifelong friend of Robert Frost, Dr. Stanlis has recently completed a book on the poet, Robert Frost: The Poet as Philosopher. Dr. Stanlis is the winner of The Rockford Institute’s Good and Faithful Servant Award, a periodic prize given by the Institute to honor local heroes, who have devoted their lives to service in the Rockford community.

Mr. Welder, a practicing geologist, is president of Welder Exploration and Production Inc., a privately held oil and gas company based in San Antonio, Texas that operates chiefly in the Southern and Coastal Bend regions of Texas. Mr. Welder is a descendent of one of South Texas’s oldest families, which helps to explain his passion for and in-depth knowledge of the history of the region. He remembers fondly his parents throwing him birthday parties at the Presidio in Goliad when he was a boy. He has been a Chronicles reader since his undergraduate days at Washington and Lee. “I was struck,” he says, “by Chronicles’ strong writing and diligent reasoning. I have not missed an issue since.” On joining the Institute Board, Welder declared, “I am honored to join in the efforts of The Rockford Institute. I have admired its work for many years, and consider it a great privilege to help in any way I can.”

TRI :: Apr.01.2007 :: April 2007 (MSM), Main Street Memorandum :: Comments Off

The Rockford Institute’s Second Annual Winter School sold out, drawing an equal number of new faces along with those who had attended at least one other Institute event, such as a Convivium, Summer School or Winter School.

Institute President Dr. Thomas Fleming, Vice President Christopher Check, and special guest lecturers Dr. James Patrick of the College of Saint Thomas More, and Michael McMahon, author of Saints: The Art, the History, the Inspiration (MQP), delivered lectures and led discussions on a little-known period in the history of the West: the fifth and sixth centuries or the age of Pope Saint Gregory the Great. On guided walks, participants visited some of Rome’s most famous sites as well as some of the city’s less-known but no less important paleo-Christian churches.

The transformation in Christ of the Roman world was marked by the great brutality of the barbarian invasions, but also by the greater faith and perseverance embodied in the heroic figures of Gregory the Great around whom the age revolves. Lectures and discussions considered Gregory’s Dialogues, his Commentary on the Book of Job, and his extraordinary career as statesman and Pope during perhaps the Church’s most trying time. Other lectures examined Emperor Justinian’s ultimate failure to restore the Western empire, Boethius and the four ideas that made the West, Saint Gelasius and the two-swords theory, Vincent of Lerins and memory, and saints of the Roman Canon. Continue Reading »

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