I feel sorry for the virtue of prudence. Why? For the same reason that I feel sorry when any of my friends suffers from constantly being misunderstood. For that is surely what has happened to the ...

"War is always a defeat," Pope Francis said, urging people at his general audience to pray that leaders in war-torn nations would have the courage to negotiate for peace. "We must make every effort to ...

The most important virtue that a statesman can possess is prudence, combined with magnanimity. The word itself, however, has come to mean overly cautious, unwillingness to try something new. But in ...

How about doing virtue scans on the candidates in this crucial election? Surely such background checks and assessments would lead to better choices than simply listening to campaign rhetoric and spin.

There has always been an uncomfortable connection between Sunday-morning and Monday-morning Christianity. On Sunday morning the classic virtues of faith, hope and love are preached and sometimes ...

It is hard to have a conversation these days where Covid-19 is not the center of the story. Yet it is a terribly uninteresting protagonist. It has no personality of its own and no desire beyond ...

Want to raise a few eyebrows and launch a load of snickers? Use the word “virtuous” near the company water cooler or at the next meeting of the PTA. Better yet, say you want to teach your children the ...

So, you want to live a happy life? In Plato’s Republic, Plato writes about the idea of happiness. Plato contends that one who is moral is the only one who can be truly happy. To be satisfied is but ...

How do we talk about the virtues? This was a question posed at the third of the Capitalism in Crisis events by one of the participants, Dr Rowan Williams. His fellow panellists, the sociologist ...