Jeanie Hannaman

By J. Daryl Charles, First Things - Removed from its religio-political context and understanding, however, tolerance ceases to be a virtue. Indeed, it becomes a vice if and where it ceases to care for truth, ignores what is good, and disdains the values that uphold a community. The culture in which we Americans presently find ourselves is one in which almost everything is tolerated. It is a culture in which people believe nothing, possess no clear concept of right and wrong and, ultimately, are indifferent to this precarious state of affairs.

By Randall Smith, The Stream - Experience suggests, and multiple studies show, that people don’t act as ethically as they think they will. It is easier to imagine being just and heroic than to be just and heroic. But sometimes the issue isn’t a lack of character, it’s a skewing of our vision of things... Josef Pieper, in his masterly book The Four Cardinal Virtues, begins his chapter on prudence with this passage from the Gospel of Matthew (6:22): “If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light,” which continues: “but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!” ...