06 May 2022

The Connection of the Virtues

Lesson Nine of Aquinas 101: The Virtues, with Fr Aquinas Guilbeau, OP, MDiv, STL, STD, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology, Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and Prior of the Priory of the Immaculate Conception.

At first glance, it might appear that the moral virtues are not connected to each other.

St. Thomas Aquinas holds that as the moral virtues progress toward their perfect expression, they rise and fall together. At the same time, he accounts for what we all experience in the moral life: our exercise of the virtues can often remain uneven.

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