The evil-minded deny or suppress facts and the truth at all costs since they do not want their misconceptions and fantasy to be revealed; living a lie, they hate intensely the truth-tellers, ignoring the truth that lies and deceit always lead to disastrous destinations.
Dorothy Kardas
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Deadly sins (e.g., pride, greed, envy) hurt others, erode relationships with others, open the door to the power of the Evil One, weaken capacity to love and relationship with the Lord thereby putting at risk one's salvation and one's capacity to help others toward their salvation.
Dorothy Kardas
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The exclusion of divine order and authority from the state, which is the scaffolding on which civil authority rests, leads to exercising brute force and governmental tyranny; the greatest evil lies in human hearts - radical leftists seeking their ends by means of depravity and destruction.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Forgiveness is not a way out from accountability; it is not an action or process that allows irresponsible persons to remain in the state of unaccountability but rather it is call to accountability through repentance; "go, and do not sin anymore" Jn 8:11
Dorothy Kardas
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Salvation is deliverance from sin, its effects and deliverance from spiritual death; it is also salvation to life of Grace - life filled with the Holy Ghost, which ensures growing in humility, intellective accuracy, fortitude and true empathic relationships with others. No freedom, truth and charity are achieved without Grace.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Evil people only support each other while aiming at reaching this same evil objective; full of malice and pride, in reality, they harbor ill will and ill wishes toward each other. By devising schemes, they are incapable of seeing good in others, nursing, or experiencing, good.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Any deliberately committed sin can create proneness to sin, that is, it results in repetitions of sinful acts which in effect cloud conscience, weaken the will to desire what is good, corrupt the discernment of good and evil, thus by degrees destroy the moral awareness altogether.
Dorothy Kardas
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Hardened sinners evince torpid insensibility to sin and the deceits of the Evil One; the more frequently sins are committed, the less likely regret or sorrow is felt by the wounds of sin. The sinners become insensible, knowing neither fear nor defense - remaining oblivious to the way of spiritual death.
Dorothy Kardas
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Devoid of auto-criticism and embracing unearned auto-elevation, the envious, ill-disposed or evil-minded are unjustly critical, discrediting and denigrating the truth-tellers.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Society plunges into an anarchic deviancy becoming a rootless and cowardly mob of ruinous loggerheads without obeisance for Perennial - Divine Truth.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Sanctifying what needs to be sanctified is to be on the unharmed ground of love - its purifying and redeeming presence.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Human assessments and judgments possess unerringness and faithworthiness only when they are congruent with revealed God's Truth.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Without God's Truth, there is no social conscience and sacred duties; social and political agenda serve selfish, private interests, and the logic of perverted sway.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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False freedom of uncontrolled desires... It is lawlessness within, which obstructs the liberating influx of the most perfect law of Grace.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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The loss to be grieved over the most is the one brought in by a willing - scandalous sin.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Rejection of divine moral imperatives brings on horrors of amorality and perversions - a "pathless" gloom, pernicious and barbaric wickedness.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Our Holy Mother desires the glory of Her Son and our sanctity; Her mission given on Calvary is to assist in forming most perfectly Christ's Empire in our hearts.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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With no regard for ultimate existential and ethical dilemmas, all is tentative and disposable, leading scientists and technocrats to a career of crime.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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The spirit of humility is inseparable from the recognition of the constant need for conversion. The self-righteous deprive themselves of living and advancing in the grace of God, overly criticizing, never apologizing and feigning inner conversion of heart.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, In Vitro Fertilization, surrogate "motherhood", same sex marriage etc. are unmistakable portents of the pervasive perversity of mind, and murderous and hopeless spirit.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Constituents of science must include gained knowledge and a moral - unchangeable - code without which, science cannot retain apperception of what is sacrosanct.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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No nation can ever expect to be blessed by the Author of Life and Love with peace and true or lasting wealth when legalized murder of unborn children is a part of its economic system.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Human dignity is attained and sustained by virtue of persistence in conforming - out of love only - to divine ordinances eternally founded.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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It is through suffering that one can gain unfailing insights but more importantly, through suffering one can know the depth and height of God's Love.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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The spiritual health of a nation is infinitely more crucial than its state of economic thriving and success.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Every moment in the search after truth becomes a moment of death to the power of falsehood. It comes to be a moment of death to the natural self and natural learning - opening the gateway to supernatural learning and supernatural transformation. To save life is to die to falsehoods. Self-willed renitency to affirm the changeless truths is the same as playing an infinitely perilous game of invasion upon oneself; it is to get acquainted with tending self-demise, while losing life for divine truth is the grandest privilege; it is fulfilling completely the highest due order.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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The Crucified Christ is the exclusive pathway to the understanding of the infinitude of self-sacrifice, self-giving, life-giving or death-destroying love, and the pathway to the infallibility of eternal wisdom. Among other substantive lessons, the Cross is unequivocally instructive of the profound truth that the Self-Sacrificer truly - perfectly loves and hence truly knows for in God truth and love are the same, that the world has to be entirely crucified to all genuine followers of the Crucified Christ, as well as eloquently elucidates the truth that "if nothing is worth dying for, nothing is worth living for." The Crucified Christ represents a perfect and unrestricted touchstone of all deeds of boundlessly, spiritually edifying, and salutary submissiveness and obedience. The limitless and climactic redemptive love and pain of Christ on the Cross are intimately united with the boundless love and pain continually present in the Holy Eucharist.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Rather than unequivocal acceptance of the immutable Divine Word, the principle of personal judging or subjective perception is always included in every heretical opinion or heretical doctrine.
Dorothy Kardas, Psy.D. Th.D.
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Pride can become so enormous that it can no longer be swallowed - disabling the prideful to breathe life.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Relationships ingrained in lies disintegrate at the light of truth, and reconciliations are impossible & nonviable when lies are not eradicated. The health of the soul and relationships comes from truth. One cannot be free, wholly human or spiritually healthy unless one makes truth one's own.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Though God in His mercy prompts all with the fear of perdition, ceaselessly inspiring sanctitude, the reprobate stay untouched by divine promptings and truths. Being ruled by demons, pervert the entire order of reason and nature, inebriated by depravity remain forgetful of eternal pains.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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The effects of Holy Communion: those who receive the Body of Our Lord - a Living Bread worthily have everlasting life, "He abides in Me, and I in him. He will live in Me" says the Lord - meaning that in private and public life no intrinsic evils as abortion and perversions can be tolerated.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Reckless faith abandoners cannot be reliable reasoners.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Propagandists are willfully ignorant - by suppressing intellectual, scrutinized analyses, and incessantly repeating untrue statements are effectively escaping reality, accepting a made-believe world - an illusory nightmare devoid of hope.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Those who claim that personal faith and public life can be compartmentalized fall into serious and far-reaching errors, gravely insulting God by failing to grasp that being transformed by Christ means carrying out zealously His unchanging imperatives in all spheres of activities according to His standard and law.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Ideas have consequences; without the solid rock of eternal orthodoxy, there are shifting sands of relativism and subjectivism where nothing is true in itself, nothing good, and the objective reality of evil becomes unseen since truths are confused as falsehoods, and certainties are viewed as absurdities.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Without infusing the Christian Spirit throughout a world, there is no promising future for all that is unstirred and unaffected by the eternal truth, and is unregulated by the voice of a well-formed conscience is vile and abysmally dreadful.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Politics severed from religion leads to political atheism, substituting popular or false notions for changeless truth, where power is emancipated from all restraints, becoming no longer dependent on the conscience of the people - all in efforts to reject order and work of Providence.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Authentic education always entails predominant moral and religious instruction - without which there are deviations from, or erroneous views of reality, and mushrooming of contradictory whims, grave errors in moral, educational and political spheres, resulting in lack of common sense.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Philosophical positions that present the law of morals separated from the divine Authority, defining what is moral and immoral with no reference to God, destroy the basis of morality by resolving morality into capricious human wants, thus disposing of the true ideas of right and wrong.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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To have a solid moral base, one must believe in God, His truths and eternal Law. Disallowing the Church to influence the state is detrimental to any nation for it destroys the foundation of righteousness and justice; without virtue governments and society degenerate onto corrupt systems.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Actions shape what one at the end becomes; by choosing tyranny, one is reduced to be a tyrant. Resisting habitually the voice of conscience ends in a total erosion of conscience. Unlimited power in the hands of the conscienceless leads to unconscionable reign of terror.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Pride that occupies the mind, expands in ambition and will, endangers one to open attacks of the Evil One which leads to elevating one's will over divine will, resulting in false-image and disposition of destructiveness to others and resistance of the divine orders - ultimately advancing to self-idolatry.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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Liars, by making a lie and deception a principle, no longer attend to facts; truth terrifies them so unscrupulous or unjust ways are used to either oppose the truth or deceitful logic is applied to conceal the truth and their evil practices.
Dorothy Kardas
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The heart-wrenching war scenes are vivid display of the wickedness of human pride that seeks dominating and ruinous power for its own sake - exercising despotic, destructive ways to reach its heinous goals by suppressing conscience, empathy and inflicting unjust and barbaric revenge on all who are resistant to submit to subjugation.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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All deadly sins (e.g., pride, envy) have blinding, driving and ruinous power, and when they become habitual, they shut down one's conscience, any urging of justice and charity - leading to resentment, irrational hatred and vengeance - leaving one with an entirely distorted sense of God, reality and oneself.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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God sends sufferings for conversion of sinners and for the just for cleansing them from small faults and imperfections; confirming them in virtues; enabling them to merit more and receive a higher reward in Heaven; making them shining examples for imitation and for confounding the devil.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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The continual slaughter of pre-born children, redefinition of marriage - including the unrestricted union of anything is beyond relapse into the insanity of paganism for under these intrinsic moral ills is the repudiation of human nature itself, and therefore the forsaking of all morality.
Dorothy K. Kardas
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In societies plagued with lies and idolization of madness truth is most vital for central characteristic of truth is unmasking illusions, exposing erroneous beliefs, conceptions and perceptions of reality. Separated from truth, humanity is without protection from ruinous irresponsibility.
Dorothy Kardas
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One's wickedness embodies one's own disobedience to oneself for by disobeying the true God, one does not protect the sacredness in oneself, failing to grasp that authentic knowledge, freedom and compassion are always separate from self-serving whims.
Dorothy Kardas
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The six sins against the Holy Ghost: presumption (the men before the Flood, the inhabitants of Sodom), despair (Judas), resisting the known truths (Pharisees), envy of another's spiritual good (Cain), obstinacy in sin (Pharao), and final impenitence (Satan, Pharao, the Pharisees).
Dorothy Kardas
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The virtue of justice that is focused on avoiding harm is the minimum and uncompromisable ethical requirement, while the supreme virtue of love goes beyond the dictates of justice. Jesus converted ethical minimalism (justice) to ethical maximalism (love) by advocating optimal good for the neighbor.
Dorothy Kardas
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Genuine gratitude is not associated with discontent since it takes nothing for granted - viewing life as continual providential care and blessing - being undisturbed by "comparative disadvantage" while the ungrateful spirit remains consumed by anger, envy and resentment - breeding more conflict and unrest.
Dorothy Kardas
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The opposite of betrayal is loyalty; breaking fidelity toward God and the neighbor is the gravest sin for it is a failure of love; it is failure to love. Hence, in Dante's Inferno, the ones who committed fraudulence against faith, family and friends are placed furthest away from God in the darkest parts of Hell.
Dorothy Kardas
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The self-righteous spirit embraces the unfoundedly superior moral posture and by the self-satisfied deception effectively shuts the door to the life of virtue.
Dorothy Kardas
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Virtues are solid attitudes and inner dispositions formed by choices and habits of intellect and will that orient consistently an individual toward good ends and actions, ordering human passions and governing actions according to faith and reason.
Dorothy Kardas
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It is essential to live the truth in love for then, there is no need to fear the Light.
Dorothy Kardas
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To restore inner peace, forgiveness is necessary. Reconciliation becomes requisite whenever all involved acknowledge their wrongdoing or culpability. Only through recognition of guilt and contrition peace and rightly ordered relationships with the Maker and all concerned are assured.
Dorothy Kardas
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The ones who refuse to recognize the difference between good and evil, had clearly consented for the evil to take control of their lives, and it is the evil within them that is conveying the vile opinions and expressing disordered passions and emotions.
Dorothy Kardas
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Guard against the critical mindset that refuses to perceive the virtues of others and overlooks its own vice and corruption.
Dorothy Kardas
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Conversion entails replacing "the old self" with "the new self" embracing virtue attained through solid commitment to the sacraments, prayer and intensifying desires that involve the interrelated intentions to please the Lord, help others on the path of salvation and pursue our own salvation and holiness of life.
Dorothy Kardas
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All true education is moral education - it is the reassertion of a Christian concept of education rooted in the revelation of God and belief that God's Word is eternal truth. The Bible presents a model of education that helps with the knowledge of God and extends to God's law and created order.
Dorothy Kardas
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The unjust by disregarding the principles of fairness and showing favoritism act contrary to the voice of conscience and are accordingly separated from authentic commitment to others - failing the dictates of the supreme virtue of love.
Dorothy Kardas
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Reconciliation with persons who refuse to recognize their grave errors or misdeeds; who refuse to acknowledge their need for repentance, would be an acceptance of reconciliation based on sin and untruth.
Dorothy Kardas
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A virtue of justice is the habit of dodging needless or avoidable harm and giving all individuals what is owed to them and belongs to them. The highest virtue of love includes justice but advocates going beyond the prescripts of equity - calling for optimal spiritual benefits for the neighbor.
Dorothy Kardas
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Complete submission to God - remembering always Christ Crucified in thoughts, words and actions is the fundamental principle in ensuring Christian integrity and fulfilment that effects the most abundant merits and rewards of divine generosity and justice.
Dorothy Kardas
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Love of self and pursuance of transitory goods result in the disorder of reason and cannot merit eternal rewards; to make oneself worthy of God or secure meritorious deeds is to disallow lower motives to intermingle with striving after virtue, perfection or the Highest Good - God.
Dorothy Kardas
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Sins pervert the entire order of reason causing significant damage to the intellectual and emotional life; disorderly movements of pride and other deadly sins lead to the unwillingness to alter dispositions and falling away from the light of true faith and from right reason.
Dorothy Kardas
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Being converted to the light of grace involves departing wholly from all evil dispositions and self-serving inclinations; it entails a complete denegation of self and submission to the divine will that is expressed in these words: "Lord, what dost Thou wish to do with me?"
Dorothy Kardas
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