Raymond A. Schroth, S.J.

We have been slow to see our use of the atomic bomb as a moral failure.

At this moment four new books on or by Pope Francis mdash four in an endless flood several every week of pope publications which have swept across my office desk in the months since the publishing world decided there was no limit to the market for a man who in the earlier stages of his career decl

Bringing the encyclical to classrooms, seminaries and parishes across the U.S.

My first reaction to the Friday morning headlines that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been condemned to death by the Boston jury for his role in bombing the Boston Marathon was anger mdash an emotion I more or less put on hold many years ago and which very rarely surfaces The second was sadness Anger was

Perhaps the worst mistake was killing Osama Bin Laden.

When I first spotted David Brooks rsquo s ldquo A Moral Bucket List rdquo an excerpt from his new book on morality The Road to Character which appeared in the New York Times Apr 12 I zipped through it quickly without giving it a chance to sink in Today rsquo s letters page Apr 19 with 8 r

To kill always degrades the killer; we become what we say we despise.