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Contending for Transformation ‘Jesus is a foe of any kind of fatalistic mindset that reduces His creation to something less than what He...

Holy Fear ‘He will be the foundation for our times—a rich store of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: fear of the Lord is key to this...

Ordering Our Courts ‘Beauty is the radiance of truth.’- Thomas Aquinas I love this Church. Strength and clarity for the day arises from...

Originally published March 9, 2015 ‘Sloth is a kind of oppressive sorrow that so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.’- St....

Original entry date: March 9, 2015 ‘Sloth is a kind of oppressive sorrow that so depresses a man that he wants to do nothing.’ Aquinas...

I remember always loving the cross. Growing up in a beach town near Los Angeles in the sixties and seventies, my three siblings and I...

‘Because we are vulnerable, we can be brave.’ Josef Pieper ‘Inner healing’ tends to attract women, who usually access their wounds more...

‘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...

‘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...