Bad? Something in between? Here, we explain what virtue signaling is and three examples to help you pinpoint it. What is virtue signaling? The term “virtue signaling” has had a couple of lives.

We seldom talk about “eulogy-based virtues,” meaning human traits that one would be remembered upon death. Eulogy-based virtues examples are humility, convictions, wit, empathy and relatedness.

These two examples show what is frequently the case: The “signal” in virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm that group’s moral superiority.

A person can embrace their own personal philosophy (e.g., existentialism) and make it their mantra. Practicing this ...

The saints are not unreachable "exceptions of humanity" but ordinary people who worked diligently to grow in virtue, Pope Francis said. It is wrong to think of the saints as "a kind of small circle of ...

The saints are not unreachable "exceptions of humanity" but ordinary people who worked diligently to grow in virtue, Pope Francis said.