As mentioned in the article “The 6 moral obligations of business executives,” published in the April edition of Legatus magazine, Pope Leo XIII wrote an encyclical called Rerum Novarum in 1891 on the rights and duties of capital and labor.
In many people’s minds the phrase “business virtue” is an oxymoron, as though virtue is the antithesis of commerce. Commerce is all about profits, they say, and virtue is not. Really?
In 2011, with the global economy still recovering from the nadir of the post-financial-crisis economic funk, the pop song “We Are Young” won a Grammy award.
Responsible and morally attuned parents recognize the critical importance of forming their children to do what is right not only when or because they are being observed, but because...
On December 1, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most important case of this generation: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
I take it as self-evident that the desire to do sexual things with children is wicked and perverse. That includes self-display, enticement, and talk – and where the talk takes place does not matter, except that if it is public, in a school, or on television, or on posters at your local fast-food joint, the harm done is incomparably greater, because it reaches more children, and it acquires all the force of public approval.
In an issue dedicated to the theme of “heroes in uniform” it would be good to remember the uniformity of heroism itself. Heroism is the same in all ages because, in essence, it is synonymous with holiness.