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Good and Bad Condescension

Condescension has a bad rap as a rule. That’s because we generally assume that a condescending person is condescending toward people who are their social/intellectual

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Confirmation: Charisms

The Church teaches that there are two kinds of gifts given us by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and Confirmation. The first kind, which we

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Confirmation: Wisdom

last—and greatest—of the sanctifying gifts is Wisdom. Wisdom can mean different things to different people. The Greeks often thought of wisdom in speculative and abstract

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