The foundational documents of our nation were influenced by Catholic political philosophers…

This column does not often do moral philosophy, but the recent controversy over family separation at the American-Mexican border offers an opportunity to do just that.

You've probably never heard of the Waupoos Family Farm.

Sometimes it helps to have concepts or ideas explained to us like we're a child.

Facebook or Google taking over the world is a distant, speculative fear. Being harassed, humiliated, shunned and unemployed are immediate fears. We increasingly live in a digital panopticon ruled as much by mobs as by the overseers.

Governments were established to secure human life, not to judge its worth.

It was always likely that young Alfie Evans would die in a hospital with his parents at his bedside. 

What is the moral status of money from an immoral source?

The issues of prostitution and its evil twin human trafficking can be overcome only by a renewed understanding of what it is that money can't buy. 

This past week brought one of those rare, splendid happenings — an academic conference of glitter and substance: "Human Ecology — Integrating 150 Years of Catholic Social Teaching," at the Catholic University of America.