Ryan Topping
Dr. Ryan N.S. Topping is the academic dean at Newman Theological College and author of several books on Catholic culture and education.
Bio last updated November 27th, 2019.
Articles by Ryan Topping
Bill 207 is Dead. Now What?
By Ryan Topping
November 27, 2019
The main reason for Bill 207's defeat is because we trust our institutions will stand even when we ignore their foundations, writes Ryan Topping.
Newman defended the rights of conscience at a moment when an aggressive secularism was rising in England For Newman, conscience has rights because it has duties As Newman argued elsewhere, as aggressive forms of secularism advance, genuine freedoms, including the freedom of conscience, are bound to recede – a prophesy proved grimly true in the gulags and death camps and abortion clinics and euthanasia sites of the 20th and 21st centuries