St. Augustine regularly had dinner with bishops and priests from North Africa, and he felt the need to carve into his table the injunction, “Thou shall not gossip,” although he expressed it more ...

Following the reasoning available even to non-Christian moral philosophers, the Catechism of the Catholic Church lists four cardinal virtues necessary for our natural good: temperance, courage ...

Let’s say it’s the fall of 2021, and you’re the mother of a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son who attend public school. Your daughter hasn’t seen most of her classmates’ faces in more than a ...

WHETHER in Cuba or the Klondike, in camp or in college, wherever men live together in close quarters, there they form a moral code. The codes of college students, for instance, like the codes of ...

After a busy couple of weeks, I have once again found myself sitting on the front porch of my home pondering the path that the Lord has laid out in front of me. Many of us think that we are in control ...

Church and state rub shoulders in the Eternal City — two adjacent cultures with their own rhythms and pageantry. The crowd packing a conference room at Rome’s Villa Aurelia last Friday morning — ...