
Why Saints, Not Superman, Are the Real Heroes
COMMENTARY: The love of power is the opposite of the power of love — so why do we idolize strength over virtue?
COMMENTARY: The love of power is the opposite of the power of love — so why do we idolize strength over virtue?
A Look Back at Season 1 of the Netflix Miniseries on the Reign of Elizabeth II
‘Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts.’ (CCC 1865)
‘To follow and imitate Christ more nearly and to manifest more clearly his self-emptying is to be more deeply present to one's contemporaries, in the heart of Christ.’ (CCC 932)
‘Remember that the present day is given to you,’ says St. Francis de Sales, ‘in order to gain the future day of eternity.’
BOOK PICK: ‘Jane Austen’s Genius Guide to Life’
If athletic competition builds virtue and is not just “an end in itself,” said Pope St. John Paul II, it can be “a means to total and harmonious physical, moral and social development.”
People of faith must lead with moral goodness to stave the republic from succumbing to the politics of despair fueling violent civil strife.
An out-of-tune instrument cannot produce beautiful music, and an out-of-tune soul cannot live a beautiful life.
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