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Foreword

Introduction

1 Forgiveness Reduces Anger

2 Generosity Conquers Selfishness

3 Respect Overcomes the Urge to Control

4 Responsibility Closes Emotional Distance

5 Trust Calms Anxiety

6 Hope Reduces Sadness and Loneliness

7 Gratitude Builds Confidence

8 Prudence Improves Communication

9 Temperance Restrains Compulsions and Infidelity

10 Justice Prevents Divorce

11 Loyalty Lessens the Retreat from Marriage

12 Humility Fosters Self-Knowledge Resources

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Drawing on his experience of forty years as a psychiatrist, Dr. Richard Fitzgibbons presents twelve habits that can foster healing and growth in Catholic marriages. This books helps couples to identify and resolve the major emotional conflicts that weaken their relationships and hurt their marriages.
Habits for a Healthy Marriage is unique because it draws on the field of positive psychology, which focuses on growth in virtues. Each chapter names a common marital problem along with a particular virtue that can help couples to overcome that problem. It shows that the road to healing is paved with forgiveness, not only between spouses but also within their families of origin. Along the way the author incorporates the luminous writing of Saint John Paul II on marriage and the timeless wisdom of the Catholic Church.
Whether you are newly engaged, recently married, or married for many years, the conflict-resolving strategies described in this book&mdash;the habits of a healthy marriage&mdash;can help you to protect your relationship from the emotional storms that often lead to quarrelling and mistrust, and sometimes to separation and divorce.

Habits for a Healthy Marriage: A Handbook for Catholic Couples (Audiobook)

Preface

Introduction꞉ Do We Hold These Truths?

1 The Legacies of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome

1 The Legacies of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome (Part 2)

2 The Medieval Roots of Constitutionalism

3 The Loss of Reason and Nature

4 Enter꞉ Martin Luther—Exit꞉ Christendom

5 Richard Hooker꞉ Restoring Natural Law

6 Thomas Hobbes and the Rise of Secular Absolutism

7 The Divine Right of Kings and Its Enemies

8 John Locke꞉ Problem or Solution?

9 A Restorative Founding on Reason

10 The Antipodes꞉ The American Revolution versus the French Revolution

11 Critiquing the Critics꞉ Why They Go Wrong about What Was Right

12 Is Slavery the Founding's Fault?

Epilogue꞉ If the Founding Was Good, Why Did Things Go Bad?

The Founding of the American Republic is on trial. Critics say it was a poison pill with a time-release formula; we are its victims. Its principles are responsible for the country's moral and social disintegration because they were based on the Enlightenment falsehood of radical individual autonomy.
In this well-researched book, Robert Reilly declares: not guilty. To prove his case, he traces the lineage of the ideas that made the United States, and its ordered liberty, possible. These concepts were extraordinary when they first burst upon the ancient world: the Judaic oneness of God, who creates ex nihilo and imprints his image on man; the Greek rational order of the world based upon the Reason behind it; and the Christian arrival of that Reason (Logos) incarnate in Christ. These may seem a long way from the American Founding, but Reilly argues that they are, in fact, its bedrock. Combined, they mandated the exercise of both freedom and reason.
These concepts were further developed by thinkers in the Middle Ages, who formulated the basic principles of constitutional rule. Why were they later rejected by those claiming the right to absolute rule, then reclaimed by the American Founders, only to be rejected again today? Reilly reveals the underlying drama: the conflict of might makes right versus right makes might. America's decline, he claims, is not to be discovered in the Founding principles, but in their disavowal.
This expanded edition of America on Trial includes a new chapter on the American founding and slavery.

America on Trial, Expanded Edition: A Defense of the Founding (Audiobook)