The Catholic Gentleman's Guide
Your guide to manly holiness.
…Understanding and Living out Manly Virtue.
Any guesses where this is going? If you’re a Latin guru then you may know that the Latin term for “hinge” is cardo, cardinis. From this is related the Latin adjective cardinalis which is defined as “serving as a pivot upon which something depends.” In English, a great word that embodies this concept is pivotal, which takes … Read more
Prudence is one of the four Cardinal Virtues. If you read the last post in this series, you’d remember that Cardinal Virtues are known as Hinge Virtues because all other human and moral virtues pivot upon them. This means that if we want to be growing in virtue as Catholic Gentlemen, we’d better understand the four Cardinal Virtues so … Read more