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 ...

and when he was made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him. The first great theologian of the Christian church, in his effort to understand what had transpired in ...

VATICAN CITY – He slipped it in at the end of his speech, and said it so quickly and softly it almost sounded like an afterthought. But in pledging his ‘unconditional reverence and obedience’ to 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 ...

“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 ...

Today, we want to examine the dynamics of kingdom obedience. In other words, we want to answer the question, “what does obedience entail for a believer in Christ?” I call the three dimensions of ...