Many of us can count ourselves lucky to have friends. How much of a grace is it to count another human being as one of your companions in life? VIRTUOUS FRIENDSHIP! This is not to take away value from family members or spousal relationships. However my main focus is to consider what virtuous friendship truly is; what it looks like in theory and in practice. To go in depth, we will tap the intellect of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas about the subject, thoughts on different kinds of friendship and how they fit in with being a virtuous, Catholic man.

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