Courage and Campion’s Brag
We need more thumos in the Catholic Church, the Platonic notion of ‘spirit, courage, wherewithal, steadfastness, zeal, magnanimity, capacity’ and we may add a host of other synonyms and related terms. Its opposites are manifest all around us: ‘cowardice, complacence, complaisance, softness, pusillanimity’, and I do not exempt myself from any of them. I strive[…]