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‘Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is...

I am a zealous father but not a very well-rounded one. I don’t like professional sports (my kids mock Dad’s half-hearted efforts to cheer...

The Holy Family: Joseph, Mary and Jesus. Wow. As I reflect on this holy trio, I wonder: “How in the world could we ever imagine living a...

The bright white carpet in our rental highlighted the dirt strewn all over it by our 2-year-old Nick back in the late-eighties; it seems...

The Lord inhabits humble, barren spaces. His very presence sanctifies them. A shepherd’s pasture becomes a contact point for divine...

‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...

‘To begin with: for Thomas Aquinas it is plainly self-evident--indeed so self-evident that it need hardly be mentioned even to those but...

‘The primary and essential meaning of temperance…is this: to dispose various parts into one unified and ordered whole.’ (The Four...

‘To be patient means to preserve cheerfulness and serenity of mind in spite of injuries that result from the realization of the good....

‘To be brave actually means to be able to suffer injury. Because man is by nature vulnerable, he can be brave.’ (The Four Cardinal...

‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...

‘Justice is the virtue which enables man to give to each one his due.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 44) ‘We cannot state...

‘This truth of real things…is contained in the true-to-being-memory. The true-to-being character of memory means simply that it...

‘To be open to the truth of real things and to live by the truth that one has grasped is the essence of the moral being. Only when we...

‘“The doctrine of virtue” was one of the great discoveries in the history of man’s self-understanding…It has become a basic component of...

‘Ultimately, it is the individual homosexual who suffers in his or her relationship to God when the church shirks its duty to call a sin...

‘…it seems clear that consistent exposure to a smorgasbord of variant sexual behaviors and the intense questioning of a heterosexual norm...

‘It is important to be clear about the definition of tolerance and its place among Christian virtues. While tolerance may be a virtue in...

‘Along with most Christians, I have come to the conviction that the gospel message exists in its purest form in the Bible (particularly...

‘In the context of Romans 1:18-32, it is true that there is a certain logic to the sequence of events. First, a false wisdom suppresses...