Friends, I share this with you, not just because Joe is awesome and insightful as always, but also because it has seemed to me for a long time that at the foundation of all “bad” decisions is an ignorance of who and whose we really are, as well as a lack of formation in virtue. How can we even begin to discuss or assess the moral lacunae in our lives if we have no vocabulary or basic understanding of virtue with which to do so?

We are drowning in a culture that celebrates superficiality and the gluttonous feeding of our passions. We are no longer taught how to think or rightly order our intellect and will.

Let us commit to our own education and surrender to the will of God in and through us so that we may be of use to others.