Ethics

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A new biography of philosopher Derek Parfit explains the eccentric philosopher's quest to find a legitimate secular moral theory.

James Keenan’s history of Catholic theological ethics reveals his commitment to historical consciousness, pastoral practice, and inclusivity.

Neil Gorsuch’s position on vaccines and religious liberty is fundamentally confused.

A new book about solitary confinement captures its horrors, but fails to grasp the moral urgency of abolishing the practice.

We rush to consider the personhood of AI, but we neglect to extend the rights it should confer to the marginalized among us.

The Church has so far failed to provide nuanced guidance on technological ethics. But it’s not too late to become a prophetic voice on the subject.

“When I graded the first set of tests for the ethics classes, I discovered that more than half of the students had cheated.”

When living in fear, speaking our truth can be one of the hardest things in the world to do. And yet God still calls for our realest selves, and replies with love.

Samuel Moyn’s new book demonstrates how a focus on war crimes has distracted us from the evil of war itself.

From the archives: a 1971 interview with the late Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Küng

Is it possible for a Catholic jurist to work within the framework of a liberal democracy?

The coronavirus will be here for the foreseeable future. Our task is to learn how to negotiate life with people who have quite different understandings of its risks.

The 1947 masterpiece ‘In a Lonely Place’ elevates noir conventions to perfection, finding evil in society, in others, even in ourselves.

Authentic friendship requires inner subjective awareness. So can I really have a “relationship” with a robot?

Donald Trump honed his media tactics in the world of 1980s and 90s New York. Reporters need to stop taking the bait.

In a new collection, Cathleen Kaveny provides practical ways that the legal tradition can serve as a source of insight for Christian ethicists

Traditional Catholic moral theology holds that only individuals can sin. But their choices are made within a matrix of structures, some good, others less so

Fifty years ago, the “universality” in Catholic ethics meant absorption into the Roman way of viewing things; a conference in Sarajevo modeled another way

It’s easy to assume that bishops who transferred priests accused of abuse were doing it to avoid scandal. But it’s also possible that they were like me

When rape is understood as a sin against chastity rather than an act of violence

If Catholic school teams are overachievers in basketball, it is because of an ethos that values discipline and sacrifice for the common good of the team

Kierkegaard’s life and work were one and his life-work was devoted to Regine

Forget the tax code. How should Christians think about charitable giving?

Two views on finding justice amid moral outrage

A case before the Supreme Court which could cripple the American labor movement is a bundle of partisan contradictions

The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed that there will be no due process for immigrants

After selling trillions of fraudulent securities and almost triggering a 1929-scale Depression, how did no one from the world’s greatest banks go to prison?

We mustn’t forget C.G. Weeramantry’s Catholic (and catholic) view of justice in international law

Daniel Ellsberg offers a peek inside the secret world of Cold War nuclear strategists

From our pages in 1962, Thomas Merton writes on the duty of Christians in apocalyptic times

Terry Eagleton tries to figure out what we mean when we use the E-word

In ‘The Bureau,’ a spy learns that the rules are for the common good

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde’s work bridges some of the current divisions in our church and our politics

If the death penalty seems a just and proportionate response to willful murder, so what? That’s not a Christian view of reality

Tax cuts and offshore loopholes should not allow the wealthy to evade their responsibility for the public good

Karen Clifton on the church’s teaching about human dignity, why opposing the death penalty is a prolife cause, and why Catholics should seek restorative justice

Why has a business school at the U.S.’s only Vatican-chartered university closely aligned itself with a billionaire libertarian?