Two weeks ago I said, "I never met a moral principle I could trust." One reader responded: Generalizations and abstractions are treacherous indeed, but we need them for directionality and efficacy.

Patti Garibay is the founder and executive director emeritus of American Heritage Girls (AHG, www.AmericanHeritageGirls.org), a national Christ-centered leadership and character development program.

Moral principles are universal dos and don’ts, best understood as constraints on what you do. Of all the things you could do, moral principles urge particular actions, a constrained set of acceptable ...

Kohlberg's theory of moral development outlines six stages across three levels, showing how people progress in moral reasoning from obeying rules to following universal ethical principles. Parents and ...

Pope Francis greets family members as he arrives to lead his general audience in the San Damaso courtyard at the Vatican in this Sept. 9, 2020, file photo. The "Amoris Laetitia Family Year," called ...

In 2015, Stanford graduate students Carl-Frederik Arndt and Peter Jonsson (both from Sweden) found Chanel Miller being sexually assaulted while unconscious. As soon as they got a sense that something ...

Across traditions, the call is consistent. Love your neighbor as you love yourself, show mercy, pursue justice and forgive when forgiveness is hard.

Those were easier times. Despite my relative lack of experience and the probationary phase of my job, I had no difficulty scheduling an interview. The year was 1999. The Kargil war had just concluded, ...

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As conflict, polarisation and technological disruption reshape global politics, the UAE's late founding father offers a model of leadership rooted not in force, but in cooperation, moral purpose and ...

A nurse in Oklahoma City works in a Covid-19 patient's room on Aug. 24, 2021. (CNS photo/Nick Oxford, Reuters) Over the course of the past several weeks, I have been asked for my opinion as a moral ...