Trusting Feelings: Within Reason


(From John Martin, via Wikimedia Commons, used w/o permission.)

Anger is bad, right?

Yes, sort of, but it's a bit more complicated than that.

Emotions, anger include, are good; in the sense that they're part of being human. They're "...the connection between the life of the senses and the life of the mind...." (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1764)

In another sense, emotions aren't good or bad by themselves. What matters is what we decide to do about them. (Catechism, 1762-1770)

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