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 ...

The pope was speaking two days after Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte unveiled plans for a gradual easing of lockdown measures. Pope Francis celebrates Mass at Casa Santa Marta on April 24, 2020.

At the Mass opening the Synod on the Pan-Amazon Region, Pope Francis urged the assembled bishops to embrace "daring prudence," rather than settle for the status quo. He was responding to critics, ...

In accordance with a 2004 meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Lacrosse Wisconsin’s Bishop Jerome Listecki has instituted what his diocese calls a “policy of prudence” for ...

Though bishops must wade into political debates by virtue of the church’s commitment to justice and the common good, a prominent Catholic journalist said today, they would be well advised to draw upon ...

Dorothy Day with Robert Ellsberg at the Catholic Worker house in the late 1970s (Photo courtesy of Robert Ellsberg). Editor’s note: This interview first appeared in the Fall 2019 issue of In Our Time, ...