Ed. note: An abbreviated version of this text was delivered by the Cardinal on October 12, 2004, to a crowd of approximately four hundred assembled at the Amway Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan, as the honored speaker of the Acton Institutes Annual Dinner Address. In his wide-ranging discussion of law, morality, politics, and culture, Cardinal Pell proposes a renewal of Christianitys engagement with contemporary legal and political institutions in the light of the transcendent dignity of the persona project he labels as democratic personalism.
George Cardinal Pell, "Is There Only Secular Democracy? Imagining Other Possibilities for the Third Millennium," Journal of Markets & Morality 7, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 321-333