Check out this wonderful article written by Bishop Allen H. Vigneron from Oakland, CA
for that Diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Voice

It looks like this is from back in 2005.
Still good stuff.

Here is the summary:

1. The Rule of Charity: “Charity is primary.”

2. The Rule of Publicity: “Think with the mind of the Church.”

3. The Rule of Legitimate Freedom: “What the Church allows is not to be disallowed.”

4. The Rule of Catholic Freedom: “There’s something for everybody, but not everything is for everybody.”

5. The Rule of Modesty: “Not all of my causes are God’s causes.”

6. The Rule of Integrity: “To do evil in order to accomplish good is really to do evil.”

7. The Rule of Realism: “Remember that Satan is eager to corrupt my efforts to build up the Kingdom, and he’s smart enough to figure out a way to do it.

8. The Rule of Mystery: “Not all the habits and attitudes which belong to a society governed by a representative democracy are appropriate in the Church.”

9. The Petrine Rule: “Nobody ever built up the Church by tearing down the pope.”

10. The Eschatological Rule: “The victory is assured; my job is to run out the clock with style.”

Click on any of the rules to go to the original. Read the whole thing. It is worth it.

I found this through Love 2 Learn Mom at Studeo

She found it at DarwinCatholic

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