World Youth Day 2019 Wed, 22 Jan 2025 21:32:16 -0500 Website design by Concerto Designs concertodesigns.ca en-gb Speaking Out: Can an atheist be virtuous? /item/32194-speaking-out-can-an-atheist-be-virtuous /item/32194-speaking-out-can-an-atheist-be-virtuous

Does virtue require faith? If not, can an atheist be a virtuous person? For many Christians, it does not occur to us to ask this question, because some assume that the answer is an immediate “no.”

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think I had a lot of unanswered questions before my trip to World Youth Day. But God answered questions I didn’t even know I had. 

]]> World Youth Day 2019 Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:16:34 -0500 Priests must be men of joy, Pope Francis says at Mass /faith/homilies/item/28903-priests-must-be-men-of-joy-pope-francis-says-at-mass /faith/homilies/item/28903-priests-must-be-men-of-joy-pope-francis-says-at-mass VATICAN CITY – A priest must be able to see the people around him as his children, as brothers and sisters, and must be willing to risk everything for them out of love, Pope Francis said in his morning homily.]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) Reflections Thu, 31 Jan 2019 12:20:40 -0500 Too much curiosity can lead to danger, harm the soul, Pope says /faith/homilies/item/27282-too-much-curiosity-can-lead-to-danger-harm-the-soul-pope-says /faith/homilies/item/27282-too-much-curiosity-can-lead-to-danger-harm-the-soul-pope-says VATICAN – Although a healthy curiosity can lead to new discoveries, too much curiosity can open the door to dangerous things that harm the soul, Pope Francis said.
]]> cns@catholicregister.org (Catholic News Service) Reflections Mon, 30 Apr 2018 09:59:20 -0400 Speaking Out: Change the world by changing me /item/27265-speaking-out-change-the-world-by-changing-me /item/27265-speaking-out-change-the-world-by-changing-me

When the afternoon of May 12 comes, I will walk across the stage, robed in a graduation gown, ready to take on the world. 

]]> YSN: Speaking Out Fri, 27 Apr 2018 14:42:40 -0400 If you cannot say 'no' to yourself, you cannot say 'yes' to serving others, papal preacher says /faith/item/27038-if-you-cannot-say-no-to-yourself-you-cannot-say-yes-to-serving-others-papal-preacher-says /faith/item/27038-if-you-cannot-say-no-to-yourself-you-cannot-say-yes-to-serving-others-papal-preacher-says VATICAN – If Catholic morality in the past seemed so obsessed with preventing sexual sin that it ignored sins of injustice, today "we have gone to the opposite extreme," seemingly concerned only with how people treat others, not with how they treat the gift of their bodies, the papal preacher said.
]]> cns@catholicnews.com (Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service) Faith Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:50:41 -0400 ThereƵapp honest sin and dishonest sin /faith/columnists/item/24489-there-s-honest-sin-and-dishonest-sin /faith/columnists/item/24489-there-s-honest-sin-and-dishonest-sin

ThereƵapp an axiom which says: Nothing feels better than virtue.

]]> frronrolheiser@catholicregister.org (Fr. Ron Rolheiser) Fr. Ron Rolheiser Thu, 02 Mar 2017 10:17:01 -0500 Prayer can help 
the businessperson make virtuous decisions /item/22048-prayer-can-help-the-businessperson-make-virtuous-decisions /item/22048-prayer-can-help-the-businessperson-make-virtuous-decisions

A Jesuit from Las Vegas knows it can be hard to be virtuous in the marketplace, so he has created retreats for working people. 

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