“Celeste, I don’t want you going to Coney Island today. It’s the Fourth of July, and who knows what kind of troublemakers will be there?” My friend Carl and I were planning to spend July 4, 1978, at ...

Dear Dr. E: Is there a difference between righteous indignation and conscience? Does everyone have a sense of indignation, and does everyone have a conscience? If everyone possesses these things, why ...

A Reflection for Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time “On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front ...

A portrait of George Floyd is seen in New York City during a protest against racial inequality June 8, 2020. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters) In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, ...

“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...

Few novelists have captured the ultimate ambiguity of conscience better than Mark Twain did in Huckleberry Finn. Jim, the escaped slave who accompanies Huck down the river on a raft, is on a journey ...