Learning to Love the Nation God Gave Us
‘Parents and country are the closest sources of our existence,’ says Aquinas, ‘and everyone is indebted first of all under God to both.’
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Patriotism Under God: Helping Our Nation Maintain Its Divine Allegiance
COMMENTARY: The virtue of patriotism is the habit whereby we offer properly ordered love and service to our country. It is a duty of Catholic citizens to be patriotic.
Frassati on the Fourth: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Holiness
Freedom isn’t doing whatever we want — it’s the power to choose the good. Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati’s life reminds us that holiness, not self-indulgence, is the goal.
Independence Day #249
COMMENTARY: ‘We, the People’ have a lot of work to do to get our act together, so that we can celebrate the USA’s 250th birthday with gratitude and hope rather than soured spirits.
Here’s a Challenge for Catholics on the Fourth of July
COMMENTARY: Celebrate this Independence Day with both gusto and solemnity.
Independence Day and Catholic Citizens: Patriotic Witness in Word and Deed to Truth and Justice
COMMENTARY: One of the most vital services that Catholic Christians provide to our nation is our witness to truth and the reasonableness of reason. This is especially true of our witness to the natural moral law (knowable by all who use right reason) and to the norms of social justice.
4th of July Reflection: Freedom’s Fragile Reality
COMMENTARY: If we want the U.S. to grow and prosper and continue to be ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave,’ then a mature freedom and a sound moral sense must be fully retrieved and put into public practice.
Ven. Fulton Sheen: ‘The Declaration of Independence Is a Declaration of Dependence’
‘Because God made us free, we have rights,’ said Archbishop Sheen. ‘Because God made us creatures, we have duties.’
Semper Fidelis: A Story of Family, Sacrifice and Love of Country
May we remain always faithful to God, our brothers and sisters in Christ, and our beloved country.
1619, 1776 and the United States of America
COMMENTARY: There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776.
