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by bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Between the Sundays, cardinal virtue, daily life, Featured, holiness, In the Workplace, Justice, News, Virtue, Work | 0 |
Last week we began looking at the cardinal virtues. The practice of the other virtues hinges on the four cardinal virtues. Pre-Christian philosophers like Plato and Aristotle recognized these virtues as the foundation of a good society. What am I due? …
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 19, 2022 | All Saints, Catholic Watchmen, Church Triumphant, Eucharist, forgiveness, Justice, Mercy, News, Serve like the saints, St. Teresa of Kolkata | 0 |
We go to the saints like we do our friends and family, so we do not have to be loners when it comes to living the faith as God calls us — to teach, provide, protect and lead. Those holy men and women whom we celebrate come the first of November — the solemnity of All Saints —compel us to emulate their example, giving us ways and means to answer the call to serve others diligently and prayerfully.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Coakley, capital punishment, Catholic news, Death penalty, Justice, News, News Briefs, US | 0 |
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Denver Newsroom, Sep 28, 2022 / 18:00 pm (CNA).
One day after a parole board denied clemency to death row inmate Benjamin Cole, the Archbishop of Okl…
by bcadmin | Sep 9, 2022 | A Lamp Unto My Feet, Between the Sundays, Featured, forgiveness, Justice, Mercy, News, parable, prodigal son | 0 |
This Sunday’s Gospel continues some of the themes we saw in last week’s second reading: true freedom, justice, and forgiveness. The long form choice of the Gospel includes what is perhaps one of Jesus’ most famous parables, the father and his two sons….
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 23, 2022 | Abraham, covenant, Jesus Christ, Justice, Lot, News, Old Testament, Richard Dawkins, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Dispatch, The God Delusion | 0 |
Readings: • Gn 18:20-32 • Ps 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8 • Col 2:12-14 • Lk 11:1-13 According to atheist Richard Dawkins in his best-selling book The God Delusion, the God of the Old Testament is “arguably […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Between the Sundays, Cardinal Virtues, daily life, Featured, holiness, honesty, human virtues, Justice, Knowing the Faith, moral virtues, News, prudence, temperance, virtues | 0 |
Picture a virtuous person. Maybe you thought of a cloistered nun in prayer. Or perhaps a saint on a holy card (probably also in prayer). If you’re honest, maybe you pictured someone who is no fun. A stuffy “prude.” We should be pictur…
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Apostolat Militaire International, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholic app, Catholic Military Connect, freedom, Justice, military personnel, News, peace, Security, U.S. & World News, Vatican secretary of stat, War | 0 |
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, encouraged men and women in the military to download a new app designed to connect them to the Catholic faith and provide the consolation of prayer in times of war and uncertainty.
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Is man obliged to obey the commands of human lawgivers? Do human laws bind men? The answer is yes. Just human laws are means to man’s final end. If man chooses to have the end, he must choose the means to it. So just human laws bind man’s conscience, obliging him to obey. St. Thomas […]
St. Thomas Aquinas said of justice, “If anyone would reduce it to the proper form of a definition, he might say that ‘justice is a habit whereby a man renders to each one his due by a constant and perpetual will’” (Summa Theologiae II-II, 58, 1). This is good as far as it goes by way […]
by bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Biden, Featured, Judge Ketanji Brown, Justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, News, President Joe Biden, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Supreme Court of the Unided States, U.S. & World News, U.S. Senate | 0 |
In a 53-47 vote, the U.S. Senate April 7 confirmed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman to fill that role.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | Archbishop Borys Gudziak, Justice, liberty, life, Nato, News, Picks, Russia, Truth, U.S. & World News, Ukraine, Ukrainian Catholic archbishop, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Vladimir Putin | 0 |
Russian President Vladimir Putin did not invade Ukraine out of concern that NATO would encroach on his borders, but concern about “the disease of democracy that could spread like a virus, and that’s deadly for oligarchies and authoritarian rulers,” said the archbishop who serves as a “foreign minister” for the Ukrainian Catholic Church.
Read MoreThe bishops of Bolivia are calling for an urgent reform of the justice system, after a series of protests over the release of rapists and murderers rocked the country.
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