Our own complexity can be befuddling. We are better than we think and worse than we imagine, too hard and too easy on ourselves all at the same time.
We are better and worse than we think
‘What must I do?’ Living ‘Veritatis Splendor” and the beauty of the moral life
St. John Paul II’s “Veritatis Splendor” views the moral life through the lens of the rich young man, who comes to Christ asking what he must do to inherit eternal life.
Doctrine must be safeguarded by discernment, faith, pope says
Discernment also is needed to fight against “abuses of every kind,” the pope said Jan. 21 during an audience with the cardinals, bishops, priests and laypeople who were taking part in the doctrinal congregation’s plenary assembly.