Dr. Mary Kay Clark reminds us that St. Alphonsus Liguori taught that our ultimate goal is not just learning facts but how to live our lives as Catholics.
Read More »5 Ways We Hurt People’s Feelings
Using examples of the bad manners found in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Mitchell Kalpakgian shows how our charitable actions can avoid hurt feelings.
Read More »Why Nothing Fills Our ‘God-Shaped Hole’
by Emily Molitor | Do you ever feel like you are the neediest person on earth? Do you look for things to “fill” you every day? If so, perhaps you are like the rest of us.
Read More »What People Think
Do you worry too much about what other people think of you? If so, how might this tendency be causing stress in your life – stress which God never intended ...
Read More »The Principle of “Well-Regulated Hatred”
A critic of Jane Austen’s novels facetiously coined this phrase to illustrate one of the virtues of civility. Characters with the most refined and elegant manners exemplify this virtue that ...
Read More »Proud and Prejudicial
“It is not enough that your actions are good. You must take care that they appear so.” In Henry Fielding’s novel Tom Jones, the wise Squire Allworthy offers this advice ...
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