Throughout the first 12 years of my time teaching moral theology at Benedictine College, students would occasionally ask whether or not they had to follow a law that they believed to be unjust. When ...
The holiday season reminds us of many of the teachings of our faith. We know that after Thanksgiving we begin to journey toward the manger in Bethlehem and the birth of Jesus. We find ourselves us in ...
I hesitated for a moment in my reading aloud to my daughters as I came across Laura Ingalls Wilder’s discussion about wifely obedience with her fiancé Almanzo ...
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“Christ’s obedience comprises not simply a part of his life, but the totality of his Messianic work.” We are not dealing with an aspect of the work of Christ that can be considered apart from the ...
Deacons go through the laying-on of hands ritual during an ordination Mass on April 25, 2021, in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican, during which the pope ordained nine priests for his diocese as ...
Obedience dynamics concern the conditions under which individuals comply with authority figures, even when directives conflict with personal morals. Grounded in the landmark Milgram experiments, this ...