If I had only one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride.

What, Roger, to your mind, is the problem with moral relativism?

The ethical conversation has become, in the last fifty years, extraordinarily roiled.

I thought, at the time, that it was just a young woman remarkably slow of wit, even if she was a professor of law.

No word is so misused as the word "cowardly."

In the contemporary discussion on what constitutes the essence of morality and how it can be recognized, the question of conscience has become paramount especially in the field of Catholic moral theology.

It's always a rollicking good time when Mark Steyn is back in our pages, as he was yesterday, interviewed by our colleague Joe Brean on free speech after the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

The secular state cannot be neutral in matters of religion.

The great anthropologist Ruth Benedict taught us the distinction between shame cultures, like ancient Greece, and guilt cultures like Judaism and Christianity.

Most people get virtue wrong.  They think that it is simply the opposite of sin — when in fact the opposite of a sin is usually another kind of sin, just as the opposite of going too far west is going too far east.