Moral obligations might seem strong enough to equate to a good legal contract, but moral obligations and legal contracts are completely separate entities. A moral obligation can be encoded into a ...

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Democrats framed the passing of President Biden's Build Back Better agenda as being a "moral obligation" at an interfaith event on Capitol Hill Wednesday.

Judaism’s moral ideas did not remain confined to one people. They shaped Christianity, Islam, Western law, and global ethical ...

The impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the lives and livelihoods of so many Americans confirms a belief many of us held two decades ago: that someday broadband would be as essential to modern life ...

When a government defaults on debt, it’s usually because it can’t afford the payment -- not because it doesn’t want to make the payment. But that’s changing. In Missouri, a judge ruled last week that ...

President Biden called the effort to provide vaccinations “an example of America at its finest,” and added that “they're all meeting what Pope Francis calls the moral obligation, get vaccinated, ...

In 1975, despite anti-immigrant sentiment among many, President Gerald Ford welcomed tens of thousands of South Vietnamese refugees to the U.S. after Saigon fell to communist forces. Presidential ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ROME (AP) — Pope Francis suggested Monday ...

Hurricane Katrina has been in the news for more than two weeks now, and yet I continue to feel dumbfounded seeing its effects. The loss of New Orleans and its vibrant history is certainly tragic, but ...

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