Although Pope Francis amended Catholic social ethics to exclude the death penalty rather than continue to accept the punishment in cases in ...

Speaking on his first “social” encyclical, Pope Leo said the Roman Catholic Church, whose membership stood at 1.6 billion embodied souls aro...

Sometimes it pays to go behind a piece of writing to conduct a genealogy of the writer himself or herself, rather than to dive into the writ...

Poised as the “new Leonine era,” worded as if gilding the proverbial lily as if a golden ring, the installation of Pope Leo XIV reinvigorate...

Pope Francis approved a document in 2023 that allows for “the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples o...

Just in terms of how the business and political elites reacted to the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the want of a distinctly rel...

In Business Ethics for Dummies (p. 123), greed is defined as a basic desire for more. The authors posit a “reasonable greed,” which in bus...

Pope Francis said late in 2017 that the nuclear arms race had become irrational and immoral. The irrationality itself rendered even just th...

Integrity is arguably essential to the credibility of religious functionaries—even and especially those with considerable organizational...

Pope Francis declared to more than 100 world leaders and diplomats at the United Nations in late September 2015 that a "right of the e...

In addition to religious organizations and their respective affiliates being excluded from having to include contraceptives in employee hea...

Credibility is absolutely essential to viable leadership, whether in religion, politics, or business. A leader who undercuts one of his or ...

In June of 2014, Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga, a “prince” of the Roman Catholic Church, of the free-market system as “a new idol” that increase...