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WORDS TO THE WHYS

In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools and colleges are producing artificial stupidity. Thomas Sowell

The Human Soul: life, love, worship, and eternity.

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In Catholic theology, the human soul is understood as the spiritual principle that constitutes the deepest identity of the human person . It is not an optional or secondary feature but the very form of the body, the source of life, consciousness, and freedom. Catholic teaching, drawing from Scripture, the Fathers, and the scholastic tradition, presents the soul as spiritual, immortal, and created immediately by God, revealing the dignity and destiny of every human being. The soul’s spiritual nature means that it is not composed of matter and therefore transcends the limitations of the physical world. This teaching is rooted in the biblical affirmation that humanity is created “in the image and likeness of God” (Genesis 1:26), a likeness that cannot be reduced to bodily form. The spiritual soul enables the human person to engage in acts that surpass material causality—intellect, free will, moral judgment, and the capacity for communion with God. As St. Thomas Aquinas argues, the soul’s ...
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POPE LEO XIV Magnifica Humanitas

Even in the darkest nights, the Lord raises up men and women who refuse to give up, who persevere in doing good, who protect the vulnerable and open pathways to reconciliation. The memory of the saints, righteous people and the oft-forgotten peacemakers, show us that grace does not magically eliminate conflict, but instead it inspires active resistance to evil and an astonishing creativity in doing good (paragraph 211).

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

I doubt not then but innocence shall make false accusation blush, and tyranny tremble at patience.

SENECA

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.