Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Roadmap to Joy

Morality is the roadmap to joy. Morality is about applying unchanging principles of reality to changing situations. Living Catholic morality brings heroic and supernatural joy to life. It is the greatest hope and joy for our age. The hardest of hearts melt before anybody who lives as a true authentic catholic. We call a true authentic catholic a saint. A saint is the true embodiment and evidence of the hope and joy of catholic morality and virtue; how we should live. There are ultimately two decisions to make in life, either chose life or death. True Catholics chose life. This particular idea is at odds with secularism. But it is reality and the thinking mind must make choices that have consequences. Secularism rejects the reality of moral realism in favour of subjective sincerity. Catholic morality is about doing the right thing not the wrong thing. Secularism is about doing anything you want because the rules are changeable; there is no real right or wrong. Catholic Morality says there is, secularism says there isn’t. There is a moral crisis both within and without the church. There are many Catholics within the church which also say that morality is relative and subjective. But it is the Church’s moral teachings which point towards the truth in this crisis.

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