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Self-Love First?

The reigning cliche of the day is that in order to love others one must first learn to love oneself. This formulation--love thyself, then thy neighbor--is ...


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New Types of "Freedom"

Today, "freedom" seems to mean the right to abort one's child or to censor certain lofty ideas from the public schools while tolerating ...


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Dealing with Difficult People

Coping with difficult people is always a problem, especially if the difficult person happens to be yourself.


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A Fruitless Quest

The search for self-fulfillment is endless, and endlessly frustrating.


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Justifying Your Own Sins

I welcome news of the sins of others because it makes my sins appear more normal. Misery loves company.


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Wasted Talents

You can have certain creaturely talents which are amazing, often. But if they are misdirected, not in praise to the Lord but in praise to oneself, or ...


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No "No" in TV Land

Many of our adolescents and young adults cannot "just say no" to drugs because their whole approach to life has been shaped by television, the ...


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Freedom Gone Wrong

Self-fulfillment soon grows into a quest for self-indulgence with a vocabulary of I, Me, Mine and self-indulgence, in turn, soon becomes unbridled. The ...


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Too Much of a Good Thing

Our souls may receive infinite hurt, and be rendered incapable of all virtue, merely by the use of innocent and lawful things. What is more innocent than ...


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The Ascetic Life

Self-denial of all kinds is the very life and soul of piety.


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