Gossip entertains, and it also sustains. In Jane Austen’s novel “Persuasion,” the sober heroine, Anne Elliot, pays a visit to ...

It emanates from a deep time warp of theological authoritarianism—a kind of totalitarianism that brings every sphere of human activity, even sports, under the purview of religion, viewing every tiny ...

Every heart needs hope in the face of the challenges of everyday life and the fears and uncertainties of the world.

Msgr. Ocáriz also addressed the question of Christian joy in relation to the theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity. Monsignor Fernando Ocáriz gives a talk during his July 2024 visit to ...

Perhaps because of our Triune God, a lot of things both religious and secular seem to be explained or expressed in threes.

The realization of the three-step process of God being God, that he is All-Good, and that he is worthy of all our love attests to the workings of the theological virtues in our souls. These three ...

The court, which has been receptive to claims from religious groups, particularly Christian ones, will hear three major cases ...

or the Cardinal Virtues. Faith, Hope, and Charity make up the second group and are called the Theological Virtues. We will deal first with the Four Cardinal Virtues, since these are more naturally ...

Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

The paradigmatic divine gift, for Aquinas, is the theological virtue of charity, the receiving of which makes human beings friends of God. This impartation of divine love, he tells us, is the primary ...

At a theological level, it offers a word of divine ... If one was looking to compose a list of the greatest virtues of Christianity, it would be “love.” (I appreciate a short list.) ...

But these individuals (and the growing number of optimizing influencers like them) have a drive that far surpasses the Christian virtue of temperance. If all of life is theological, and if the ...