Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, in a recent interview with Vatican News, contends the controversial reasoning expressed in the apostolic exhortation Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of ...

These conscience-based accounts are exceedingly popular among many people, academics and non-academics alike, perhaps owing to its intuitive appeal: it certainly feels like we don’t do certain things ...

"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 ...

A federal judge on Wednesday struck down a Trump administration rule that would have made it easier for medical providers to avoid performing abortions and other medical services on religious or moral ...

Leadership has always stood at the uneasy intersection between power and conscience. Every civilization, whether ancient or modern, has asked the same enduring question: Who should lead, and by what ...

In his new book, Moral Origins, evolutionary anthropologist Christopher Boehm speculates that human morality emerged along with big game hunting. Basic Books; Jenny Cool Why do people show kindness to ...

A NOTE FROM OUR PUBLISHER: We must both rightly form our conscience and also defend our freedom to use it. Registered nurse Frederick Morley loads syringes with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at a ...

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is expected soon to issue regulations rolling back medical conscience protections and coercing unethical procedures that are harmful for patients.

Readers discuss whether doctors should be able to deny care to certain patients. To the Editor: Re “Should Doctors Refuse to Treat a Patient?,” by Dr. Sandeep Jauhar (Op-Ed, May 14): This piece raises ...

“We may now state the minimum conception: Morality is, at the very least, the effort to guide one’s conduct by reason…while giving equal weight to the interests of each individual affected by one’s ...