Orthodoxy and the Liberal Arts

LEWIS Lehrman, chairman of Citizens for America and founder of the Lehrman Institute, was the commencement speaker at Thomas Aquinas College, near Santa Paula, California, 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles said an open-air Mass in Latin. Twentyseven students graduated before a good-sized gathering of relatives and friends on the campus, near Los Padres National Forest.

“Today we are engaged in a great civil war,” Lehrman told the graduates, “an intellectual civil war testing what kind of nation we shall choose to be in our third century.” A self-described “rookie Catholic” who converted 18 months ago, Lehrman closed with a call to action: “We must work confidently toward the day when Americans will again pray in public places as they please, when abortion on demand shall be no more, when the child exemption in the tax code shall be raised to $5,000, and the tax code shall be an unapologetic profamily institution; when the courts shall do their duty . . .”

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LEWIS Lehrman, chairman of Citizens for America and founder of the Lehrman Institute, was the commencement speaker at Thomas Aquinas College, near Santa Paula, California, 65 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles said an open-air Mass in Latin. Twentyseven students graduated before a good-sized gathering of relatives and friends on the campus, near Los Padres National Forest.

“Today we are engaged in a great civil war,” Lehrman told the graduates, “an intellectual civil war testing what kind of nation we shall choose to be in our third century.” A self-described “rookie Catholic” who converted 18 months ago, Lehrman closed with a call to action: “We must work confidently toward the day when Americans will again pray in public places as they please, when abortion on demand shall be no more, when the child exemption in the tax code shall be raised to $5,000, and the tax code shall be an unapologetic profamily institution; when the courts shall do their duty . . .”