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	<title>Paths of Love</title>
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	<description>A Catholic blog devoted to thoughts and discussion of the universal vocation to love and holiness, as well as the discernment of the concrete way of life in which we are to fulfill this vocation to love.</description>
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		<title>More Notes on the Goodness of the Passions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a man is affected by a passion, things seem to him greater or smaller than they really are, as to a lover, what he loves seems better, and to him who fears, what he fears seems more dreadful. Consequently owing to the defect of right judgment, every passion, considered in itself, hinders the ability [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/03/more-notes-on-goodness-of-passions/</link>
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		<title>Following Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader mentioned that he was no longer getting the comment feed of this blog.
I forgot to mention that, with the change over to a Wordpress system, the feed hosted on Blogger would of course no longer work.
The feed for comments is now: http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/comments/feed/
Or: http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/comments/feed/atom/
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		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/following-comments/</link>
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		<title>St. Paul on Sexual Intercourse as Personal Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paul: Do you not know that the immoral will not inherit the kingdom of God? You were cleansed of all this in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God.
Cor: All things are lawful for me. Now that I have become spiritual through the Spirit, these things are a matter [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/st-paul-on-sexual-intercourse-as-personal-act/</link>
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		<title>Aquinas on Pleasure as the Measure of Morality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his treatise on the passions in the Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas, discussing the goodness of pleasure, asks whether pleasure is the measure or rule for judging moral goodness or badness. He argues that it is, on the basis of the three principles that (1) moral goodness depends upon the will, that (2) the goodness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/aquinas-on-pleasure-as-the-measure-of-morality/</link>
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		<title>Holy Envy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might have thought occasionally, with holy envy, about the adolescent Apostle John, quem diligebat Iesus – whom Jesus loved. Wouldn’t you like to deserve to be called ‘the one who loves the Will of God’? Then take the necessary steps, day after day. (St. Josemarie Escriva, The Forge)
St. Thomas Aquinas defines envy as sadness [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/holy-envy/</link>
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		<title>The Moral Goodness of the Passions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can passion or emotion increase the moral goodness of human action, or does it always decrease it? It might seem at first that it always decreases it, since human or moral action is an action that is chosen deliberately, which implies a rational judgment. But passion tends to win reason&#8217;s judgment over to itself: whenever [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/moral-goodness-of-the-passions/</link>
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		<title>The Moral Value of the Passions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Passions can be good or bad in the sense that they are (1) pleasant or unpleasant, (2) useful or harmful. But they can also be morally good or bad, when they are voluntary, either because they are directly sought, or because one fails to do something to feel or to decrease a passion.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/moral-value-of-passions/</link>
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		<title>The Good of the Irascible Appetite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why does human nature have &#8220;irascible&#8221; appetites? St. Thomas Aquinas, in explaining why we have an irascible faculty&#8211;which though named from &#8220;anger&#8221;, ira, includes all appetite aimed at attaining goals which are difficult, and which require overcoming obstacles (not necessarily enemies)&#8211;makes a comparison with all natural and corruptible things, and says that things which are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/good-of-irascible-appetite/</link>
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		<title>Change to Wordpress Completed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have changed the backend of this blog to Wordpress. The occasion for this change was the announcement that Blogger will soon no longer be supporting blogs hosted via FTP, as this blog was. In any case, I think Wordpress is all round a better system, so I use this opportunity to switch over.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/change-to-wordpress-completed/</link>
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		<title>Aquinas&#039;s Moral Theology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Aquinas Institute will be offering an eight week study program covering the first part of the second part of the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas, which comprises his treatment of Christian moral life in general.

Studying Thomas Aquinas is of value because he integrates deep insights about human nature and reason that are often presented and thought of as opposed to one another: e.g., the objectivity of moral truth, and its dependence on reason; the primacy of the end, and the importance of moral character.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathsoflove.com/blog/2010/02/aquinas-moral-theology/</link>
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