Articles on Religious and Catholic Ethics

Our digital world has provided us countless reasons to stereotype, vilify, and make an enemy out of anyone. Religions can be at the forefront of changing this.

In this dispiriting moment when the Trump administration has rejected environmental justice and climate change, what can the 2023 Pajaro flood teach us about how Catholic moral thought responds to such realities?

Religions can cultivate a powerful counterforce to the anti-immigrant sentiments and mass deportation threats of the Trump Administration by upholding the belief in the sanctity of all life and building accepting communities.

Hannah Arendt's work makes clear the dangerous shortcomings of the approach favored by the U.S. Catholic bishops' conference in their quadrennial document on elections, "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship."

Conscience and compassion are required to stop the bloodshed and live in peace in Gaza.

When thinking about justification for actions taken by Hamas and Israel, the claim of self defense must be tied to universal claims of justice.

Recent protests on college campuses are divested of meaning if they are divested of truth. And as we were reminded by a Palestinian Jew long ago, it is truth that will set us free.

We need a new story in which we are bound in love and justice to the tens of thousands of persons living and dying on our streets.

Despite the concerns that religious participation is fading, enough people still consider it vital to their life. In the face of this new moment, what are key ethical guideposts for executives to keep in mind?

There may be a connection between slavery and abortion, but it's not what most pro-life Catholics think it is.