Chap., §
1 Int, 1 | the heart and of the moral conscience. ~
2 Int, 3 | them through the dictate of conscience... can obtain eternal salvation".
3 Int, 4 | the individual subjective conscience or to the diversity of social
4 1, 16 | easy to say with a clear conscience "I have kept all these",
5 2, 30 | law? what is the role of conscience in man's moral development?
6 2, 31 | actions on grounds of duty and conscience, without external pressure
7 2, 31 | freedom and to respect for conscience on its journey towards the
8 2, 31 | respect due to the journey of conscience, certainly represents one
9 2, 32 | atheist. The individual conscience is accorded the status of
10 2, 32 | has a duty to follow one's conscience is unduly added the affirmation
11 2, 32 | it has its origin in the conscience. But in this way the inescapable
12 2, 32 | inevitably the notion of conscience also changes. Conscience
13 2, 32 | conscience also changes. Conscience is no longer considered
14 2, 32 | grant to the individual conscience the prerogative of independently
15 2, 32 | opposition between moral law and conscience, and between nature and
16 2, 34 | defender of the rights of conscience, forcefully put it: "Conscience
17 2, 34 | conscience, forcefully put it: "Conscience has rights because it has
18 2, 34 | moral law, human nature and conscience, and propose novel criteria
19 2, 36 | concretely, by personal conscience. ~Some people, however,
20 2, 52 | through the judgment of conscience. The acting subject personally
21 2 | II. Conscience and truth ~
22 2, 54 | the person, in his moral conscience. As the Second Vatican Council
23 2, 54 | observed: "In the depths of his conscience man detects a law which
24 2, 54 | avoid evil, the voice of conscience can when necessary speak
25 2, 54 | understanding of the moral conscience. Here the cultural tendencies
26 2, 54 | understanding of moral conscience, which diverges from the
27 2, 55 | theologians, the function of conscience had been reduced, at least
28 2, 55 | criterion for judgments of conscience, but a general perspective
29 2, 55 | typical of the phenomenon of conscience, a complexity profoundly
30 2, 55 | attention to the value of conscience, which the Council itself
31 2, 55 | creative" character of conscience, certain authors no longer
32 2, 55 | unnecessary conflicts of conscience. ~
33 2, 56 | in practice and in good conscience what is qualified as intrinsically
34 2, 56 | the norm of the individual conscience, which would in fact make
35 2, 56 | according to which the moral conscience is in no way obliged, in
36 2, 56 | very identity of the moral conscience in relation to human freedom
37 2, 56 | creative" understanding of conscience. ~
38 2 | The judgment of conscience ~
39 2, 57 | biblical understanding of conscience, especially in its specific
40 2, 57 | their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their
41 2, 57 | According to Saint Paul, conscience in a certain sense confronts
42 2, 57 | moral rectitude or iniquity. Conscience is the only witness, since
43 2, 57 | eyes of everyone outside. Conscience makes its witness known
44 2, 57 | response is to the voice of conscience. ~
45 2, 58 | Bonaventure teaches that "conscience is like God's herald and
46 2, 58 | of the king. This is why conscience has binding force".103 Thus
47 2, 58 | Thus it can be said that conscience bears witness to man's own
48 2, 58 | indeed even beforehand, conscience is the witness of God himself,
49 2, 58 | suaviter to obedience. "Moral conscience does not close man within
50 2, 58 | the dignity of the moral conscience: in being the place, the
51 2, 59 | merely acknowledge that conscience acts as a "witness"; he
52 2, 59 | reveals the way in which conscience performs that function.
53 2, 59 | clarifies the precise nature of conscience: it is a moral judgment
54 2, 59 | 2:16). ~The judgment of conscience is a practical judgment,
55 2, 59 | demands of the moral good, conscience is the application of the
56 2, 59 | this particular situation. Conscience thus formulates moral obligation
57 2, 59 | through the workings of his conscience, knows to be a good he is
58 2, 59 | circumstances. The judgment of conscience states "in an ultimate way"
59 2, 60 | knowledge, the judgment of conscience also has an imperative character:
60 2, 60 | stands condemned by his own conscience, the proximate norm of personal
61 2, 60 | morality. The judgment of conscience does not establish the law;
62 2, 60 | commandments he accepts. "Conscience is not an independent and
63 2, 61 | recognized by the judgment of conscience, which leads one to take
64 2, 61 | the just judgment of his conscience remains within him as a
65 2, 61 | choice. But the verdict of conscience remains in him also as a
66 2, 61 | the practical judgment of conscience, which imposes on the person
67 2, 61 | Precisely for this reason conscience expresses itself in acts
68 2, 61 | by the liberation of the conscience from objective truth, in
69 2, 62 | 62. Conscience, as the judgment of an act,
70 2, 62 | puts it, "not infrequently conscience can be mistaken as a result
71 2, 62 | what is true and good, and conscience gradually becomes almost
72 2, 62 | regard to the erroneous conscience. ~Certainly, in order to
73 2, 62 | in order to have a "good conscience" (Tim 1:5), man must seek
74 2, 62 | the Apostle Paul says, the conscience must be "confirmed by the
75 2, 62 | in the judgments of our conscience the possibility of error
76 2, 62 | error is always present. Conscience is not an infallible judge;
77 2, 62 | mistakes. However, error of conscience can be the result of an
78 2, 62 | ignorance is not culpable, conscience does not lose its dignity,
79 2, 63 | truth that the dignity of conscience derives. In the case of
80 2, 63 | the case of the correct conscience, it is a question of the
81 2, 63 | the case of the erroneous conscience, it is a question of what
82 2, 63 | with a true and correct conscience equivalent to the moral
83 2, 63 | judgment of an erroneous conscience.108 It is possible that
84 2, 63 | justified in the name of our conscience, we should reflect on the
85 2, 63 | light (cf Jn 9:39-41). ~Conscience, as the ultimate concrete
86 2, 63 | what is true and good, and conscience gradually becomes almost
87 2, 63 | alludes to the danger of the conscience being deformed when he warns: "
88 2, 64 | represent a call to form our conscience, to make it the object of
89 2, 64 | source of true judgments of conscience. Indeed, in order to "prove
90 2, 64 | help for the formation of conscience in the Church and her Magisterium.
91 2, 64 | undermines the freedom of conscience of Christians. This is so
92 2, 64 | only because freedom of conscience is never freedom "from"
93 2, 64 | not bring to the Christian conscience truths which are extraneous
94 2, 64 | and only at the service of conscience, helping it to avoid being
95 2, 71 | living centre in the moral conscience, is manifested and realized
96 3, 85 | faithful to form a moral conscience which will make judgments
97 3, 94 | living".147 The voice of conscience has always clearly recalled
98 3, 104 | different attitudes of the moral conscience of man in every age. The
99 3, 104 | represents a "repentant" conscience, fully aware of the frailty
100 3, 104 | represents a "self-satisfied" conscience, under the illusion that
101 3, 110 | that they consider them in conscience as morally binding. In addition,
102 3, 117 | question which rises from their conscience, the Lord replies in the
103 Conc, 120| Christ can grant peace to his conscience and salvation to his life. ~
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