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Former Senator Explores the Role of Faith in Public Life
8/20/2010
 The Honorable Rick Santorum, former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, will give a lecture titled, “The Role of Faith in Public Life: Fifty Years after John F. Kennedy’s Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.” The event will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 9, in Jones Hall, 3910 Yoakum. The lecture is co-sponsored by the John Paul II Forum for the Church in the Modern World and the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), in Washington, D. C.
Santorum, a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, established and directs EPPC's Program to Protect America's Freedom. The program works to identify, study, and heighten awareness of the threats to America and the West from a growing array of anti-Western forces. The program also focuses on domestic threats to America's freedom and its moral foundation by addressing a variety of issues, including our long-term fiscal health and the tax burden on families and entrepreneurs.
Prior to founding to the EPPC in 2007, Santorum served as United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007, and as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1995. As a United States Senator, he was a champion of efforts to counter the threat of radical Islam, to protect victims of religious persecution, and to promote democracy and religious liberty around the world.
In addition to his work on foreign policy matters, Santorum led the fight to pass the landmark welfare reform bill, the American Community Renewal Act, a ban on partial-birth abortion, the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, the Combating Autism Act, the Farmland Preservation Act, the Abandoned Mine Lands Reform Act, the Multi-Employer Pension Reform Act and Health Savings Accounts. From 2001 to 2007, Senator Santorum served as Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, where he directed the communications operations of Senate Republicans and was the third-ranking member of the Republican leadership. He is the author of It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good (ISI 2005).
He received his undergraduate degree from Penn State University, his Master in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh, and his law degree from the Dickinson School of Law. He and his wife, Karen, are the parents of seven children. In addition to his work at EPPC, Senator Santorum is the Friday host of Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" nationally-syndicated radio program, a contributor on the Fox News Channel and a columnist with The Philadelphia Inquirer.
The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Dr. John Hittinger at 713-525-2155.
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