Conscience at the Polls: Considering Candidates Leadership Qualities and Virtues when Voting
This is a guest post by Kathy Lilla Cox, Research Associate at the University of San Diego in the...
Read More
Tag: Virtue
Book Review: The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology
The Sermon on the Mount and Moral Theology: A Virtue Perspective. By William C. Mattison III....
Read More
Jack Kerouac, Curiosity, And The Gift Of Time
I’ve been reading Jack Kerouac’s On The Road (1957)—this is the second time...
Read More
Divisiveness and Understanding Justice
Our divisive political and ecclesial cultures are peculiarly divisive insofar as they seemingly...
Read More
Fake News and the Intellectual Virtues
One of the most intriguing stories to emerge in the aftermath of the presidential election earlier...
Read MoreWhat is Phone Gluttony?
Is there a way to give an account of phone gluttony? I have long thought we Catholics don’t pay nearly enough time to thinking through the moral importance of technology use, despite the clear injunctions in Pope John Paul...
Read MoreSequester! It’s a Moral Issue
While the Catholic world I live in has been counting down to “sede vacante,” the DC area world I live in has clearly been transfixed by another countdown: to sequester! In case you haven’t heard, and it seems that many Americans...
Read MoreLincoln and the Virtues of Politics
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, my family went to see Spielberg’s Lincoln. It is a wonderful movie that reminds us of how good and important politics can be, but it also raises some hard questions for Catholics. According...
Read MoreJeremy Lin, Religious Values, and the “Moral Ethos of Sport”
David Brooks is becoming must-readable these days. Yesterday he had a column in the New York Times which, invoking the Harvard-grad and budding Asian-American NBA superstar Jeremy Lin, made the bold claim that, “The moral...
Read MoreNewt, Poor Children, & the Misuse of Virtue Ethics
Presidential hopeful and recent Catholic convert Newt Gingrich has once again made headlines with controversial statements concerning poverty and child labor laws. NY Times Columnist Charles Blow recounts: On Thursday, at a...
Read MoreHarry Potter and a Love Stronger than Death?
In anticipation of this Friday’s opening of the final Harry Potter film, I’ve just re-watched the seventh film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1. It reminded me, yet again, why I love this series and why I think it...
Read MoreHelping Kobe Bryant Become More Virtuous
Virtue ethics is sometimes viewed as the antithesis of a more rule-based, deontological ethics. The latter tends to emphasize principles, rules, and punishment, while the former talks more about character development and good...
Read More
Contributors
-
Alessandro Rovati
-
Andrew Kim
-
Barrett Turner
-
Beth Haile
-
Book Reviews
-
Catherine Moon
-
Charles Camosy
-
Christopher Vogt
-
Conor Kelly
-
Dana Dillon
-
David Cloutier
-
Emily Reimer-Barry
-
Holly Taylor Coolman
-
Jana Bennett
-
Jason King
-
Jennifer Beste
-
Jessica Wrobleski
-
John Berkman
-
Julie Rubio
-
Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman
-
Kathryn Getek Soltis
-
Kelly Johnson
-
Lorraine Cuddeback-Gedeon
-
Luis Vera
-
Maria Morrow
-
Matthew Shadle
-
Meghan Clark
-
Miguel J Romero
-
New Wine New Wineskins
-
Nichole Flores
-
Patrick Clark
-
Ramon Luzarraga
-
Shawnee
-
superchief1
-
Thomas Bushlack
-
Tobias Winright
