There are many shades of meaning for the word “obedience.” A dog is obedient, but that is due to his training and not because he is free. A soldier must obey orders or face punishment. An athlete must ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...