Faith that overcomes Charity
Hope is one of the Theological Virtues, by the Faith and Charity, but it seems that [among Catholics] Faith won the Charity.
(Alexandre Garcia, the "Jornal da Manha the Globe yesterday, Wednesday, May 28. The issue, of course, is the use of human embryos to find cures for diseases)
However, for the Church, charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God, as stated in the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The first part of the definition, we see that the first aspect of charity is vertical, ie, it refers to God. So, who does not love does not love God. Allah is the Truth, who is rooted in ethics and therefore God does not love anyone who violates the ethics, and those who want to sacrifice human embryos helpless in laboratory research, however good their intentions.
And the second part of the definition, we see that true love, when you talk to others, do it for the love of God, ie, sits on oriented and love of God. "Love of neighbor" that is not grounded in love of God is not real love, no more than philanthropy, which, although it may have its value on the natural level, however often degenerates into grave errors, as in the case where to sacrifice human embryos to helpless [and perhaps only] help sick people.
In theological terms, Faith, of course, not "win" the charity, but charity requires faith, and no one without it. The "catch phrase" that the journalist sought to develop simply makes no sense.
Hence we see that Alexandre Teles not know anything about the Catechism. And if so great is the ignorance of the journalist on an issue as "Be-a-bah" as the rudiments of Catholic doctrine, that no doubt deserve membership their views on issues as complex as the use of human embryos in scientific research?
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