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 ...

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 ...

Most people in the family of faith learn the importance and blessing of obeying God, but those who choose to disobey lose out on God’s blessings or face devastating consequences. Some people in the ...

Milgram concluded that most of us can be induced to torture someone else at the behest of an authority figure – but that’s only part of the story. afromztoa/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Chances are you’ve ...

A nun is pictured in a file photo praying in the grotto of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank. (Credit: Debbie Hill/CNS.) Listen ROME – Earlier this week Pope Francis released a new ...

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 ...

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 ...