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Youmerica
by Daniel Greenfield
by Daniel Greenfield on Mar 21, 2016 in Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order 
Without virtues, politics are reduced to tribal emotion and personal greed.
Tag: "morality"
Tracking America’s Suicide
by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma
by Dr. Marvin Folkertsma on Nov 11, 2015 in Featured, Government & Politics, International Issues, Law & Justice
“We must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
George Washington on Religion and Morality
by E. L. Core
by E. L. Core on Feb 22, 2014 in Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
George Washington was born this day, February 22nd, in 1732.
From Worship to a Moral Life and Charity
by Robert J. Gieb
In an interview by Edward Pentin of Zenit on July 25, 2013, Cardinal Raymond Burke was asked if the abuses of the liturgy that abounded after the Second Vatican Council affected the moral life of Catholics. “There’s no question in my mind,” he said, “that the abuses in the sacred liturgy, reduction of the liturgy […]
HHS Mandate: Morality and the Common Good
by James Baresel
It may have been too much to hope that the recent Health and Human Services mandate requiring the provision of contraceptives and other immoral “medical care” could have alerted people to the dangers and errors of a political system built on a classical liberal understanding of freedom as opposed to one built on a Catholic, […]
Dark Evangelization: The Mandate as the Gospel of Mammon
by Marlon De La Torre
The great theologian and catechist Frank Sheed wrote in his book Are We Really Teaching Religion: “The aim of teaching religion is that at minimum, children should emerge with a tremendous devotion to Christ, Our Lord, with an awareness of Him, a considerable knowledge of His Life and Personality, and a desire to increase that knowledge” […]
Inside the Mind of a Hollywood Director: Bitterness, Love, Verisimilitude
by Stanley D. Williams, Ph.D
An interview with Gavin O’Connor director of WARRIOR WARRIOR is a motion picture story about two bitterly estranged brothers who end up fighting in a cage for the mixed martial arts world championship. It is also about their relationship with their father, whom neither can forgive. The violence we see in the cage is visceral. […]
What Role Does Virtue Play in Catholic Bioethics?
by Fr. Christopher M. Saliga, O.P. R.N.
Virtues empower folks to reliably, freely, and happily engage in truly noble acts by which they become even more virtuous than they already are. Like a surgeon who has progressed into a surgical virtuoso — a fully flourishing surgical artist whose patients rightly trust with their lives and their limbs — clinicians of various stripes […]
How Does One Judge the Morality of Human Acts?
by Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P.
by Fr. Nicanor Pier Giorgio Austriaco, O.P. on Mar 17, 2011 in Cloning, Embryo Research & Genetics, Contraception & Abortion, Euthanasia & Assisted Suicide, Featured
Created by God as rational and free creatures, human beings determine themselves and establish their identities as moral creatures through their free choices. We make ourselves the kinds of persons who we are in and through the actions we freely choose to do. As Pope John Paul II put it in his moral encyclical Veritatis […]
