Andrew Comiskey
Just Mercy: Why IHOPKC Needs a New Third-Party Investigation
‘Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.’ Thomas Aquinas Remarkable. Tragic. IHOPKC is...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 22, 20204 min read
Radical Wholeness: Day 40
‘Aquinas assigns intemperance to the “roving unrest of spirit”, which he says is the first-born daughter of acedia (or sloth)…Acedia is...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 21, 20204 min read
Asexual Slump or Marvelous Desire? Day 39
‘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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 20, 20203 min read
Temperance: Life and Love on Course: Day 38
‘The primary and essential meaning of temperance…is this: to dispose various parts into one unified and ordered whole.’ (The Four...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 19, 20203 min read
Patient, Peaceful Endurance: Day 37
‘To be patient means to preserve cheerfulness and serenity of mind in spite of injuries that result from the realization of the good....
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 18, 20204 min read
Fortitude for Future Generations: Day 36
‘To be brave actually means to be able to suffer injury. Because man is by nature vulnerable, he can be brave.’ (The Four Cardinal...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 17, 20203 min read
Sexual (In)Justice: Day 35
‘…any unchastity has these two aspects: to be at once intemperance and injustice.’ (The Four Cardinal Virtues, Josef Pieper, p. 158) ‘…in...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 16, 20203 min read
Justice and True Sexual Nature: Day 34
‘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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 15, 20203 min read
Seeing Things as They Were: Day 33
‘This truth of real things…is contained in the true-to-being-memory. The true-to-being character of memory means simply that it...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 14, 20203 min read
Prudence: Decisive Reality: Day 32
‘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...
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Andrew Comiskey
Nov 13, 20204 min read
Four Hinges on the Door of Life: Day 31
‘“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...
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