In these short and personal essays, Bernard Haring-a prominent theologian and international retreat master-discusses the components of moral competence. Haring sees the achievement of virtue as an holistic endeavor, concerned with the entire personality in the context of all of its human relationships. Haring identifies and clarifies more than forty virtues, among which are the expected (charity, humility, chastity, generosity) and the unexpected (holy impatience, vigilance, frugality, reciprocity, and humor). Haring maintains, however, that each individual virtue works together to form a total domain that creates the central principle behind personal authenticity and goodness.
