In an otherwise reasonably fair-minded front-pager in the Sunday New York Times, Richard Bernstein and Daniel Wakin write that as a young professor in 1968 Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, ...

I have to confess, I'm pretty wary of the word obedience. So wary, in fact, that I almost declined to review Bradford Hinze's new theology of the church. I'm glad I didn't. Prophetic Obedience is ...

Maimonides, the greatest Torah explainer after Moses, gave us this ingenious formula of how to handle Commandments and logic. We aren’t slaves or dogs that we could passively follow any command. But ...

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 ...

There are many activities all over the world that are being carried out in the name of God. Whatever they might be, they must be done according to God's pattern and God's way. Far too many these days ...

I’m sure I’ve written on this before, but I thought the significance of obedience was important enough to repeat here. It occurs to me that obedience to God is, or certainly should be, an exercise in ...

Above the entrance to the former Worcester County Courthouse in Worcester's Lincoln Square is a phrase: “Obedience to the Law is Liberty.” I’d driven past the building hundreds of times, reading the ...

We gasp in horror, or let out a loaded, grieved sigh, every few minutes. My wife and I recently finished the Netflix documentary series, In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal. So far, the Korean ...