Word: moralizing
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...historical experience should be a very personal one. He harbors a pugnacious indignation against history as data gathering, preferring the work of popular historians like McCullough, Ambrose, Barbara Tuchman and Doris Kearns Goodwin. He wants viewers to identify with their ancestors, allowing them to ponder the prevalence of moral ambiguity, human willpower and plain dumb luck in shaping the past. And he wants to be transported back in time, with a Sousa band banging the drum loudly...
...jurisdiction that extends rights of same-sex couples is really important, a sign of moving in a more progressive direction as a country,” McCarthy said. “As a legal and a moral battle, this ultimately needs to be at the national level...
...apparently open about his limited knowledge of Catholic theology and moral doctrine—he even insists, awkwardly, on using “the” before the title of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical, “Humanae Vitae.” Yet what should be a point of humility for this amateur scholar of comparative religion inexplicably gives him license to teach not only Pope Paul and the Boston College theologian whose recent lecture he mentions, but also St. Paul and St. Augustine a thing or two about the proper moral attitude toward...
...Catholic, Muslim, or even atheist attempted to lecture Jews about how they should treat their own traditional theology and moral teachings, such an article would rightly be discarded as anti-Semitic garbage. In 2010, one would have thought that the old prejudices against Catholics would have disappeared at Harvard; it is unfortunate and sad to know that they still persist at The Crimson...
...kind of decisions that the government now faces are not only factual or empirical, but moral as well, the speakers said. The church can—and should—take a stance on issues of fiscal responsibility and ethics, to participate in the progressive collectivist response to the crisis...