Virtues
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Happiness Rules
What is the point of all those strange moral rules the Church has? Why bother about them? Reading: Matthew 5:20-26 The following homily
Quodlibet 32 – Theological and Cardinal Virtues
A Godzdogz reader asks about the connections between the theological and the cardinal virtues. Before answering this question, it's helpful to
The Life of Virtue – Eutrapelia
One day, so the story goes, some people came across St John the Evangelist playing games and telling jokes with
The Life of Virtue – Studiosity
Study is one of the central components of Dominican spirituality. To be studious is to be appropriately eager to study.
The Life of Virtue – Humility
Humility – just another ‘monkish virtue’! That was British philosopher David Hume’s opinion in the eighteenth century and I would
The Life of Virtue – Modesty
Modesty, like so many of the Christian virtues, has been largely disregarded by Western liberal societies. In the latter
The Life of Virtue – Gentleness
In the letter to the Ephesians, St Paul says "Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun
The Life of Virtue – Clemency
Clemency is the inclination to lessen punishment and it originates in love. Love as justice will sometimes require punishment; love
The Life of Virtue – Continence
If temperance is the virtue concerned with moderating our physical desires, then where does continence (which seems to be about
The Life of Virtue – Virginity
Virginity is not seen in a positive light by many in society. The first of the seemingly endless series of
The Life of Virtue – Chastity
When chastity is spoken of in these times most people simply associate it with the edict of ‘not having sex
The Life of Virtue – Sobriety
At first sight the notion of sobriety as a virtue might seem rather dull, or even worse, puritanical, but St.