Tag Archives: Charity

“We must have the courage to face lies even when they appear as compassion. The greatest charity is the truth.”— Pope Benedict XVI, Pentecost Vigil, 2012 Introduction: Between Compassion and Cowardice We live in an age where truth is uncomfortable. Contemporary culture, marked by relativism and sentimentalism, has often replaced …

Faith, hope, and charity are the three theological virtues that every Christian is called to live. However, among the three, charity holds the highest place. Saint Paul expresses this clearly in his First Letter to the Corinthians: “So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is …