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.’
‘Parents and country are the closest sources of our existence,’ says Aquinas, ‘and everyone is indebted first of all under God to both.’
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.
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.
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.
COMMENTARY: Celebrate this Independence Day with both gusto and solemnity.
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.
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.
‘Because God made us free, we have rights,’ said Archbishop Sheen. ‘Because God made us creatures, we have duties.’
May we remain always faithful to God, our brothers and sisters in Christ, and our beloved country.
COMMENTARY: There’s no arguing it: The United States of America, as our founders conceived it, started in 1776.
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