The pagans knew about temperance, fortitude, justice, and prudence. They didn’t know about faith, hope, and charity.
By themselves, the cardinal virtues might give the ship a nice cruise, but to nowhere in particular. The theological virtues set it on course to its destination.
There has never been but one true Passover, which the Savior celebrated when he hung upon the cross.
Since this is the day of rest, here is something I love from G.K. Chesterton:
Wall Street Journal personal technology reporter Joanna Stern writes of Twitter, “You really can’t get the news faster or in greater breadth on any other social media platform.”
Faster I get. Even breadth – every triviality is shouted from the rooftops. Don’t think much of the depth.
Anyway, I’ve had that experience, thank you. It was called middle school.
“Who is to say what marriage is?”
Some find it discouraging that names can be changed. Yet isn't it encouraging that things don't change just because names do?
You may go ahead and call cats dogs. But then we'll need a new word for the kind of dog that wags its tail and doesn't say "meow." They haven't become the same thing.
One of the things I like about Thomas Aquinas is his distinction between the delectable good and the arduous good. When I first began to read him it puzzled me that he considered the things I called “emotions” to be movements of “appetite” or desire. I considered desires, like the longing for the beloved, altogether different things than emotions, like anger and hope.