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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Effeminacy
Hallowed Ground's Jeff Culbreath links today to a post by Domenico Bettinelli, Jr., The vice of effeminacy, which in turn is a response to an article by a recently ordained priest, THE FORGOTTEN VICE IN SEMINARY FORMATION.

Both are well worth a careful read.

Here is Saint Thomas Aquinas' definition:
    [An] effeminate man is one who withdraws from good on account of sorrows caused by lack of pleasures, yielding as it were to a weak motion.
Following the Angelic Doctor's definition, it seems we're becoming a society of effeminates.