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Home: Core Subjects: Catholic Religion: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Catholic Religion: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Vatican's unofficial synopsis of Caritas in Veritate - Pope Benedict XVI"Charity in truth, to which Jesus Christ bore witness" is "the principal driving force behind the authentic development of every person and of all humanity": Thus begins Caritas in Veritate, the encyclical addressed to the Catholic world and "to all people of good will." Read more... The Virgin Mary in the Koran - Giancarlo FinazzoAmong the persons of Sacred History mentioned in the Koran, the Virgin Mary occupies an important position on the historical and dogmatic plane. In addition to being the object of as many as thirty-four direct or indirect references, Mary also gives Sura XIX its name and is its central figure as the mother of Jesus. Read more... The Virtue of Care - Donald DeMarcoThe heart of virtue is love. Love without virtue remains unexpressed. Read more... The Virtue of Compassion - DONALD DEMARCOEvery virtue has its bogus pretenders. Foolhardiness passes for courage, timidity for prudence, apathy for patience, obsequiousness for courtesy, and credulity for faith. But there is no counterfeit that is more successful in obscuring the genuine article, especially in the present era, than false compassion. Read more... The Virtue of Courtesy - DONALD DEMARCOCourtesy is the entrance-level virtue that allows strangers to suddenly feel that they are kindred spirits. It is also the foundation on which other virtues might be established, such as kindness, thoughtfulness, amicability, and generosity. Read more... The Virtue of Decency - Donald DeMarcoIn the 1937 film Gone With the Wind, Clark Gable shocked a nation of moviegoers when he said to Vivien Leigh, “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a dam.” Read more... The Virtue of Docility - Donald DeMarcoThe words doctor, doctrine, and docility are etymologically connected. Their distinct meanings all converge upon the same reality. This point is illustrated, for example, when we say that a doctor teaches a doctrine to students who are docile. Read more... The Virtue of Fairness - DONALD DEMARCOIt may very well be that the first moral judgment a child utters is “That’s not fair!” Virtually all studies on the subject report that children as young as four already have an active and flourishing sense of fairness. Read more... The Virtue of Generosity - Donald DeMarcoGenerosity inspires gratitude, and gratitude inspires generosity. God is generous to us and our generosity, as St. Paul tells us, “gives proof of our gratitude towards God” (2 Cor. 9:11). Read more... The Virtue of Hope - Donald DeMarcoIn his preface to the Holy Father’s Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Vittorio Messori remarks that John Paul is so impatient in his apostolic zeal that he “wants to shout from the rooftops (today crowded with television antennae) that there is hope, that it has been confirmed, that it is offered to whoever wants to accept it.” Read more... The Virtue of Innocence - DONALD DEMARCO“How many of you are ‘pro-choice’?” she asked her grade school pupils. Immediately, all hands shot up, except one. Read more... The Virtue of Integrity - DONALD DEMARCOWe need integrity to become who we are, so that we can complement God’s gift to us with our gift to Him. Read more... The Virtue of Justice - Donald DeMarcoSir Walter Scott has his bold hero, Arthur, speak like a saint or Father of the Church. Arthur’s advice is timeless. We could use a novelist of the moral acumen of Sir Walter Scott in our own age. Read more... The Virtue of Leadership - DONALD DEMARCOA leadership vacuum exists in our culture. Most people who have thought seriously about the matter agree. Moreover, this is not a matter for mere casual observation, but one that elicits a strong sense of deprivation. Read more... The Virtue of Meekness - DONALD DEMARCOMy electric typewriter has a built-in dictionary of 60,000 words. Whenever my typing of any of these words is incorrect, an electronic bell is activated, gently alerting me to the fact that I have made a spelling error. My “spell check,” however, is given to producing many false alarms. I can get by very quietly with “jejune,” “heuristic,” and “obloquy.” But when I enter the word “meekness,” the automatic beep sternly calls me to task. Read more... The Virtue of Modesty - Donald DeMarcoOne of the most basic and vexing problems in moral education is how to make virtue more attractive than vice. In this regard, modesty plays a key role. Read more... The Virtue of Reverence - DONALD DEMARCOA plane carrying the Cincinnati Reds baseball team flew into severe turbulence. One of its passengers, the irrepressible Pete Rose, turned to a teammate and said: "We're going down. Read more... The Virtue of Unselfishness - DONALD DEMARCOThe story is told of a Chinese hero who acted with remarkable unselfishness during an earthquake. Read more... The Virtue of Uprightness - Donald DeMarco“For the Lord is righteous, He loves righteous deeds; the upright shall behold His face,” says Psalm 11:7. While there are many allusions to the virtue of “uprightness” in the Old Testament, it is scarcely ever mentioned in today’s secular world. Uprightness, nonetheless, remains an essential virtue, and one, in fact, that genuinely epitomizes the good man. Read more... The Virtuous Life Is Worth Living: Real Men Choose Virtue - Tim GrayThe virtues give us a blueprint for being a man. Indeed, the very term virtue comes from the Latin word for man, vir. For the ancients, to be manly was to be virtuous. The term virtue in Latin (virtus) signifies power, strength, and ability. Read more... The Visitation of the Magi - Father John A. Hardon, S.J.There are two lessons that the visit of the Magi are meant to teach us. Read more... The Voice of Peter - MOST REVEREND FULTON SHEENThe father and mother of a family suffer for their children; the priest bears the wounds of his parishioners, but into that chalice held by the Vicar of Christ seeps all the sorrows, such as those caused by disciples: “some walk with Him no more”, or who leave the Eucharistic Banquet and “go out into the night”. Read more... The Ways of the Desert: Biblical Reflection for 1st Sunday of Lent 2009 - Father Thomas Rosica, CSBLet us begin with Jesus in the desert -- the Gospel for the first Sunday of Lent. Read more... The wedding banquet - Deacon Douglas McManamanOur eternal salvation is not about proper etiquette or being a nice guy. Read more... The Wording of the Nicene Creed - FR. WILLIAM SAUNDERSIn John 15:26, Jesus tells us, "But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, He shall testify of Me. " Why does the Nicene Creed read, "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son? " Read more... Pages: [<<] ... 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 [>>] Related Categories:
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