Articles on Religious and Catholic Ethics

We need to develop a shared sense of conscience that binds people together across divides and becomes the basis of a story that leads to the renewal of our political world.

Jesus Christ extended love to all people, stood with the marginalized, and built community everywhere he went. To be Christ-like and to be queer calls for the same practice of acceptance, respect, and love.

These men have put their immense wealth behind the populist nationalism of Donald Trump, and culture-war Catholicism in the United States has gone alone for the ride.

This essay offers a commentary on the paper, "Antiqua et nova", a doctrinal note of the Catholic Church, emphasizing its salient points and providing a critical assessment.

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.