Catholic Church

By Fr. Benedict Kiely,  LifeZette - What I experienced at my friend’s home was, apart from linguistic confusion, the particularly Christian virtue of hospitality. Etymologically, hospitality is rooted in the Latin word “hospes,” meaning a guest. The friendly welcome to a guest, especially into the family home and to share a common meal, is the epitome of hospitality.

 By Father Dwight Longenecker, CERC - The problem with being good is that you think that's good enough.  But being good is not good enough.  Jesus Christ looked at the Scribes and Pharisees — who were very good and nice and respectable people and he said to his disciples, "You see them?  You've got to be better than them."  In other words, their goodness wasn't good enough.

By Tom Venzor, Crisis Magazine - Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger identifies a fundamental experience of modern society: a “deep and prevailing sense of dissatisfaction” with the world. The antidote to this problem—according to modern society—is found in politics, for “the general consensus is that the essential task of politics is to improve the world, indeed to usher in a new world.”

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The real problem does not necessarily come from our ideals about marriage, which are good to strive for, but from the fact that we conceive of these ideals within a hedonistic culture… Hedonism is the “doctrine” that the chief goals of earthly life are happiness and pleasure. In the hedonistic view, any diminishment of pleasure or happiness is the worst thing imaginable, a complete disaster…