Steubenville, Ohio, Sep 14, 2017 / 05:08 am
Marriage scholar Ryan Anderson will be the first visiting fellow at the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, the school announced Wednesday.
"As a young – and very courageous – Catholic scholar who is willing to defend Catholic teachings on life and the sacred meaning of marriage, Ryan Anderson provides an inspiring role model for our students, and a tremendous resource for our faculty," Dr. Anne Hendershott, director of the Veritas Center at Franciscan University, stated Sept. 13.
Anderson is the William E. Simon senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and has worked at the organization since 2012.
He has written and talked extensively about marriage, bioethics, and religious freedom from a natural law perspective, having made television appearances on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and Fox News, and having been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He received a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame.