cardinal virtues

Belying his stern image, his first encyclical, the most authoritative form of papal writing, centered on love, one of three treatises he planned to write on the cardinal virtues of love, hope and faith.

Among the cardinal virtues, according to the Stoics, are courage and wisdom.

It’s a tribute to sloth, slacking, impossible yearnings — the cardinal virtues.

Here, he comes to see the cardinal virtues of loyalty and self-sacrifice through a different lens, as a group of “lost toys” show him the liberated advantages of the single life.

But thoroughness and transparency, in lesser matters as well as these of life and death, are cardinal virtues regardless.