The Fourth Lateran Council says: "He who acts against his conscience loses his soul".Unlike all other earthly creatures,we possess a God-given capacity to know ourselves.We can, in a sense, stand back and look at ourselves and make moral judgments. Acting as an internal witness bearer,or judge,our conscience can examine our actions,our attitudes,and our choices.It may guide us toward a good decision or warn us against a bad one.It may comfort us for choosing well or punish us with sharp pangs for choosing poorly.Deep within his conscience man discovers a law which he has not laid upon himself...

Scholars unanimously agree that Africa is the birth place of Christian religious life.The legendary Anthony who is believed to be the first Christian anchorite,embraced heremitical life in Egypt. Anthony,we are told,was the only son of his parents.After the premature death of his parents he was left with the responsibility of taking care of the family and bringing up his younger sister;a situation which temporarily paralyzed his spiritual aspiration.All along he had desired to lead a life of radical following of Christ.For this he longed to be freed from any attachment so that he could...

With time you will realize that you need to know more about other people for effective counseling.While interacting with others we get bombarded with lot of information.We come to know how others look, what are their personality traits, what they are saying and doing and why.However, this leads to information load.It is not possible for a normal human brain to absorb such a vast amount of information.So we pay attention to and absorb into our memory only those parts of information which are useful for us.In a new situation, we recall this previously stored information about them and make...