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it must have foughtand rumbled around in him.There was his malesense of honor,there was the suspicionthat another man musthave had somethingwith his future wifethat she becomespregnant withouthis knowledge.Then the angel camein the nightandspoke to himthat the child isfrom the Holy Spirit.(Nothing is impossible for God.Jesus Christ is of divine origin.This is the story of Christmas.)

mentor Hegel,values are simplymade-up, socialconstructionsdependent uponthe politics andthe customs oftime and place.Plato repudiatedthis viewinfavour of atranscendentalconception ofjustice, one thatis independentof transitoryhuman institutions.

Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism.By putting our own interests first,with no regard for others,we erase the very thing that a nationholds dearest, and the thing that keepsit alive: it’s moral values.Peace is our treasure and our responsibility.

with my weaponsin my hand! ‘St. Benedict trainedhis monks to besoldiers in the greatbattle, as did SaintsFrancis Xavier,Padre Pio,Maximilian Kolbe,and every saintwho didn’t merelywrite about battle,but lived the battle.

that pants after God.It is the inner manthat is dry, andfearful, and unableto flee from thepressures of lifethat pursue usunrelentingly,that discernstheir need of God.

and self-transcendencebecome apowerfuland recurrent themein the thinking of a mystic.