Rebellion, not obedience, is characteristic of our jet-age generation. This spirit is evident in our art, literature, and morals, in the revolt against law and authority, in the talk of the death of ...

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 ...

Fifty years ago this month, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram published a groundbreaking article describing a unique human behavior experiment. The study and its many variations, while ethically ...

The indissoluble connection between faith and obedience is only too often overlooked or rationalized away. We rightly emphasize “faith,” for without it man cannot be saved; without it no man can ...

Seventy-five years ago, John Fletcher Moulton, Lord Moulton, a noted English judge, spoke on the subject of “Law and Manners.” He divided human action into three domains. At one extreme is the domain ...

I suspect many of us have a negative, uncomfortable feeling associated with the word. Maybe it reminds us how much we don’t want to be controlled or told what to do. We want to be our own persons, ...

Total obedience to God's will brings wisdom, joy and hope, Pope Francis told religious men and women. "Yes, the happiness of a religious is a consequence of this path of lowering oneself with Jesus ...

In his Holy Thursday sermon, Pope Benedict XVI made headlines for criticizing those who refuse to obey the church's position on the ordination of celibate men. He traced his argument back to Christ's ...