People orient to the world within moral frameworks that guide their action.
Above all it held up to ridicule the idea that political decisions should be taken within a moral framework.
At the same time, the President reached for a moral, historic and ethical framework for the war.
He adds that such a moral framework allows an alternative to war only if both sides embrace it.
Catholic schools continue and, indeed, are expected to provide a moral framework in a society which no longer has a common moral code.
So what would that leave, as a moral framework?
"We need a new legal and moral framework, with institutional guarantees, to ensure that the last 10 years can never happen again."
The general moral framework was unquestionably that of the Christian tradition.
We do not have an ethical or moral framework which is workable.
This is the sort of decision about which contemporary parents seem to think they need to develop a tough moral framework.