Living with integrity means listening to the whole person

Living with integrity means listening to the whole person

This article first appeared in Our Sunday Visitor magazine. Subscribe to receive the monthly magazine here. Many people have heard — and repeated — that there is a distinction between “head knowledge” and “heart knowledge.” Certainly, there is a distinction to be made here, but we can draw too sharp a line between the different component parts of the human person. After the Protestant Reformation, the West was plunged into an empirical rationali…