Empathy Is Not a Virtue

The Good Samaritan does not let compassion remain a feeling. This episode asks why empathy, when treated as the highest virtue, becomes too weak to love the wounded person in front of us. — Show Notes — • Begins with the modern temptation to treat visible emotional reaction as proof of moral seriousness. • Reads the Good Samaritan as a test of love that moves from feeling to concrete responsibility. • Uses Benedict XVI to show why charity needs truth, reason, justice, and a rightly ordered moral life. • Returns to Flannery O’Connor’s warning that tenderness cut off from God can become coercive and cruel. • Closes by contrasting impressive feelings with Christ’s command to go and do likewise. Listen to the podcast: https://podcast.catholicfrequency.com... #CatholicCulture #Mercy #Virtue