Alex Lessard, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About Alex Lessard

Dr. Alex Lessard is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Catholic School Leadership at Saint Paul Seminary, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), teaching the History, Philosophy & Mission of the Catholic School. He and his wife, Angela, support the renewal of Catholic Liberal Education and Culture through their nonprofit, Adeodatus. Dr. Lessard is also Executive Co-Director of The Cornerstone Forum, founded by Gil Bailie. He is a Fellow of the Boethius Institute; serves on the Thomas Aquinas College Board of Regents; on the Wyoming Catholic College Presidential Advisory Board; on the board of the Cantwell Foundation, a nonprofit supporting Catholic Arts & Culture; on the Executive Advisory Team of the John Paul the Great Institute of Lafayette, Louisiana; as the Theological Advisor to Gaudent Angeli; and is Executive Board Secretary of the Newman Club of Los Angeles. He took his doctorate in systematic theology at Boston College and co-founded St. Monica Academy, an independent Catholic school in Pasadena in 2001.

The Odd Uneven Time: Japan & the Atomic Bomb

By Alex Lessard|2023-09-09T20:16:06-05:00September 9th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, World War II|

In the reading, listening, and viewing I’ve done recently on the ever-troubling question of the use of atomic bombs on Japan, what I’ve noticed clearly for the first time is the seemingly inexorable retributory escalation in word and deed not so hidden under the ostensible arguments of life-saving necessity. On the Feast of St. Augustine, [...]