Chapter 26Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
—Saint Thomas Aquinas
Fall 2005
Philippines
Brother Jean-Paul’s students have played the first half of the football game valiantly against the top-ranked local public school team. The aspiring Jesuit is starting the last year of his Regency, the third phase of a Jesuit priest’s formation, during which he is a teacher of theology, ancient world history, French, Latin, Greek, and astronomy at a Jesuit high school in the Philippines. He also co-coaches the school’s football team. Having loved playing football during his lycée militaire days in France, he is a natural to coach
