Love and Reality

No other word in our language is more abused, misused, and confused than the word “love.” Yet its essential meaning is not difficult to understand. The weight of the entire Christian tradition tells us, quite simply, that love is a… Read More

Forgiveness: The Higher Way

The exalted nature of forgiveness is attested to by the fact that it presupposes a number of other virtues. Consider three virtues in particular: justice, clemency, and mercy.
Justice has the nature of an equation: Borrowing 10 dollars requires returning… Read More

Science and Faith

While on a lecture tour in Australia a few years ago, I had the pleasure of being a guest at the home of Sir Peter Lawler, former ambassador to the Vatican from Ireland. His position of diplomatic privilege had allowed… Read More

The Virtue of Uprightness

“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… Read More

The Virtue of Kindheartedness

There are three theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity. And there are four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. This is only too well-known. I would like to introduce what I call the three “infectious virtues”: kindheartedness, lightheartedness, and… Read More

Virtue and Hypocrisy

When Fyodor Dostoevsky submitted Crime and Punishment for publication, he included a brief synopsis of the novel in a cover letter. In this way, he informed the publisher that his story was about a university student who “had submitted to… Read More

Courage and Martyrdom

Martyrdom is the supreme witness given to the truth of faith. It means bearing witness to the faith even unto death. The very etymology of the word (martyros in Greek) means witness. The martyr accepts this death with courage as… Read More

The Virtue of Obedience

Obedience, to the secular mind — and more so than any other virtue — seems to be a vice. This is because the secular world prizes individual freedom above all else, and can see nothing in obedience but the renunciation… Read More

The Virtue of Kingliness

This manner of understanding the exercise of kingship in relation to specific virtues was not unusual for the ancients, who regarded the king as the antithesis of the tyrant. Thus, in the writings of St. Isidore in the seventh century,… Read More

Patience and Commitment

I have spent much of my life trying to convince students in my ethics classes (I refrain from identifying them as “ethics students”) of the indispensable value of good moral principles. Teaching, as someone once said, is the art of… Read More

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