This 3-part series on moral leadership began with lessons learned from effective acts of conscience. Next came a story of potential energy and leadership opportunity present in absent acts of ...

The Catholic tradition on conscience is very extensive, while being quite unified. One may wonder, if the teaching is so unified, why there would be so much to say. The reason is because the tradition ...

The writings of newly-canonized St. John Henry Newman offer important reflections for contemporary society on freedom of conscience and the duty to search for truth, said a leading figure in ...

It’s always good to define our terms. In his Modern Catholic Dictionary, Servant of God John Hardon provided a good definition of “Examination of Conscience”: Reflection in God’s presence on one’s ...

"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...

How can he say that? Why do they do that? What happened to their conscience? Conscience! Conscience! What is Conscience? What is so important about Conscience? What role does it really play in ...

Primacy of conscience has been thrust to the fore of Church-wide discussions on marriage, contraception and homosexuality at the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family. But as we saw happen in the ...

It has been my opinion for some time that conscience is an unreliable guide. The feminine conscience especially is too much governed by conventions. Recently circumstances have involved me in a course ...

Howard J. Bashman is an appellate lawyer and former law clerk to a U.S. Court of Appeals judge. May a U.S. Court of Appeals judge refuse to follow binding U.S. Supreme Court precedent if the judge ...

The only difference between the voting booth and the conscience is we usually have to wait in line to get into one of them. Apart from that, the same thing is supposed to happen in each place as that ...