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1002 3, 100 | any reason — selfish or ideological, commercial or totalitarian —
1003 3, 101 | countries have seen the fall of ideologies which bound politics to
1004 3, 91 | rather than perform the idolatrous act of burning incense before
1005 Int, 1 | order to direct it towards idols (cf. 1 Thes 1:9), exchanging "
1006 2, 51 | This universality does not ignore the individuality of human
1007 2, 39 | disappears... If God is ignored the creature itself is impoverished".68 ~
1008 2, 53 | human nature, definitively illumines it in its constitutive elements
1009 3, 104 | self-satisfied" conscience, under the illusion that it is able to observe
1010 3, 114 | put into practice; they illustrate this faith in the light
1011 2, 35 | Gen 2:16-17). ~With this imagery, Revelation teaches that
1012 2, 66 | are eloquent and effective images of the radical and unconditional
1013 3, 105 | offend you. Still, we can imagine that God does not reject
1014 3, 111 | need to develop fully the imago Dei present in man, and
1015 1, 11 | witness of Sacred Scripture, imbued in every one of its pages
1016 1, 20 | that Jesus wishes to be imitated by all who follow him. It
1017 3, 89 | martyrdom. Once again this means imitating Jesus who died on the Cross: "
1018 3, 89 | who died on the Cross: "Be imitators of God, as beloved children",
1019 2, 67 | to the rational finality immanent in man's acting and in each
1020 3, 101 | primordial, indispensable and immensely valuable service not only
1021 2, 52(94) | manifest the existence of immutable laws inscribed in the constitutive
1022 1, 25 | prescriptions which God imparted in the Old Covenant, and
1023 3, 101 | in public administration, impartiality in the service of the body
1024 2, 30 | This light and power also impel the Church constantly to
1025 1, 18 | other hand, those who are impelled by love and "walk by the
1026 2, 58 | within an insurmountable and impenetrable solitude, but opens him
1027 1, 17 | being a kind of incipient, imperfect freedom, goes on to say: "
1028 3, 103 | sins, this is not due to an imperfection of Christ's redemptive act,
1029 2, 59 | creative wisdom which, like an imperishable spark (scintilla animae),
1030 2, 44 | itself the eternal law, implanted in beings endowed with reason,
1031 Int, 5 | engenders have most serious implications for the moral life of the
1032 2, 42 | signed upon us, thereby implying that the light of natural
1033 1, 17 | profound and challenging import of Jesus' first reply: "
1034 2, 75 | terminology and approaches imported from different currents
1035 2, 61 | judgment of conscience, which imposes on the person the obligation
1036 2, 41 | self-determination or the imposition of norms unrelated to his
1037 2, 77 | difficulty, or rather the impossibility, of evaluating all the good
1038 2, 39 | ignored the creature itself is impoverished".68 ~
1039 2, 51 | but by being, as it were, impressed upon it, just as the image
1040 2, 66 | Ex 20:2), which, by impressing upon the numerous and varied
1041 2, 42 | is nothing else but an imprint on us of the divine light".76
1042 2, 60 | Rather there is profoundly imprinted upon it a principle of obedience
1043 2, 80 | living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution
1044 2, 42 | not through blind internal impulse or merely external pressure.
1045 2, 46 | processes, psychological impulses and forms of social conditioning
1046 2, 70 | the sinner's subjective imputability. But from a consideration
1047 2, 63 | error of judgment may not be imputable to the agent; but even in
1048 3, 112 | both from despair at their inability fully to know and keep God'
1049 2, 75 | linked in particular to an inadequate understanding of the object
1050 Conc, 118(181)| O inaestimabilis dilectio caritatis: ut servum
1051 3, 91 | idolatrous act of burning incense before the statue of the
1052 3, 107 | profession of faith and an incentive for sharing it with others,
1053 1, 12 | of meaning for life, an inchoate share in the full following
1054 1, 17 | commandments as being a kind of incipient, imperfect freedom, goes
1055 2, 44 | endowed with reason, and inclining them towards their right
1056 2, 46 | understanding, nature would include in the first place the human
1057 2, 70 | fact, such a choice already includes contempt for the divine
1058 2, 73 | show either consistency or inconsistency with that dignity and vocation
1059 3, 101 | order to gain, preserve or increase power at any cost — all
1060 3, 102 | determines, with complete independence, what is good and what is
1061 2, 60 | accepts. "Conscience is not an independent and exclusive capacity to
1062 3, 98 | is a growing reaction of indignation on the part of very many
1063 2, 32 | is quite congenial to an individualist ethic, wherein each individual
1064 Int, 4 | centuries, the Popes, whether individually or together with the College
1065 2, 32 | conscience. But in this way the inescapable claims of truth disappear,
1066 3, 107 | from and nourished by that inexhaustible source of holiness and glorification
1067 2, 80 | disgrace, and so long as they infect human civilization they
1068 2, 80 | is intentionally rendered infertile, Pope Paul VI teaches: "
1069 2, 73 | lives out his fidelity or infidelity to the gift of the Spirit,
1070 2, 80 | they contaminate those who inflict them more than those who
1071 2, 55 | emotions, and to the numerous influences exerted by the individual'
1072 2, 51 | theories which are highly influential in present-day culture,
1073 3, 112 | despite the great value of the information which they provide, cannot
1074 2, 50 | itself in a body and a body informed by an immortal spirit",91
1075 1, 13 | the fundamental rights, inherent in the nature of the human
1076 2, 82 | exception, not only does not inhibit a good intention, but actually
1077 2, 55 | this process of maturing is inhibited by the excessively categorical
1078 1, 19 | Jesus himself who takes the initiative and calls people to follow
1079 1, 10 | due to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love
1080 2, 82 | about the good, and would be injurious to ecclesial communion as
1081 2, 45 | 31-33), "written not with ink but with the Spirit of the
1082 1, 8 | content, we must carefully inquire into the meaning of the
1083 2, 47 | relations and artificial insemination were condemned as morally
1084 3, 110 | of faith, but also, and inseparably so, in the sphere of morals.
1085 2, 78 | as is borne out by the insightful analysis, still valid today,
1086 2, 69 | sins and venial sins. They insist that the opposition to God'
1087 2, 77 | intention — as Jesus forcefully insisted in clear disagreement with
1088 1, 24 | brethren, as the Apostle John insistently reminds us in his first
1089 3, 113 | their apostolic mission, insisting that the right of the faithful
1090 3, 108 | spirits, assigns governance, inspires counsels, distributes and
1091 3, 110 | They have the grave duty to instruct the faithful — especially
1092 1, 10 | 10. The Church, instructed by the Teacher's words,
1093 3, 108 | prophets in the Church, instructs teachers, guides tongues,
1094 2, 80 | treat labourers as mere instruments of profit, and not as free
1095 1, 16 | is his awareness of this insufficiency that Jesus addresses in
1096 2, 58 | not close man within an insurmountable and impenetrable solitude,
1097 2, 53(100) | their meaning preserved intact) is something else":AAS
1098 2, 74 | agent and with the values intended by him. The criteria for
1099 3, 84 | Church herself to develop an intense pastoral effort precisely
1100 2, 80 | whereby the conjugal act is intentionally rendered infertile, Pope
1101 2, 30 | moral reflection within an interdisciplinary context, which is especially
1102 2, 29 | has already borne fruit in interesting and helpful reflections
1103 2, 83 | in him we are enabled to interiorize the law, to receive it and
1104 1, 15 | of love of neighbour, by interiorizing their demands and by bringing
1105 3, 105(165) | De Interpellatione David, IV, 6, 22: CSEL 3212,
1106 1, 16 | part too must be read and interpreted in the context of the whole
1107 2, 44 | it were the voice and the interpreter of some higher reason to
1108 3, 95 | human person, the Church interprets the moral norm and proposes
1109 3, 110 | The Church's Magisterium intervenes not only in the sphere of
1110 Int, 4 | is considered capable of intervening in matters of morality only
1111 2, 71 | come about by a foreign intervention, as is the case with bodily
1112 2, 55 | for them, the Church's interventions are the cause of unnecessary
1113 3, 95 | infrequently seen as the sign of an intolerable intransigence, particularly
1114 2, 41 | absolute, extraneous to man and intolerant of his freedom. If in fact
1115 2, 80 | termed "intrinsically evil" (intrinsece malum): they are such always
1116 1, 16 | for this very reason are invitations to discipleship and to communion
1117 3, 100 | forgery of cheques and invoices, excessive expenses, waste,
1118 3, 93 | called, with the grace of God invoked in prayer, to a sometimes
1119 2, 45 | Gal 5:6), which teaches inwardly about the things to be done...
1120 2, 81 | themselves sins (cum iam opera ipsa peccata sunt), Saint Augustine
1121 2, 42 | refers to the nature of irrational beings but because the reason
1122 3, 106 | in any event its becoming irrelevant for everyday life, but also,
1123 2, 81 | remove it. They remain "irremediably" evil acts; per se and in
1124 3, 99 | against the minority, by isolating, oppressing, or exploiting
1125 1, 8 | destiny. He is a devout Israelite, raised as it were in the
1126 Int, 5 | Letter Spiritus Domini, issued on 1 August 1987 on the
1127 2, 30 | sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate
1128 1, 24 | prayer: "Da quod iubes et iube quod vis" (grant what you
1129 1, 24 | in his prayer: "Da quod iubes et iube quod vis" (grant
1130 3, 91 | 8-7:60) and the Apostle James (cf Acts 12:1-2), who died
1131 3, 101 | society itself is gradually jeopardized, threatened and doomed to
1132 3, 108 | bestows and directs like jewels to the Church, the Bride
1133 1, 26 | Christians, coming both from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles,
1134 3, 93(146) | Moralia in Job, VII, 21, 24: PL 75, 778: "
1135 3, 105 | consuming our guilt (cf Joel 2:3)".165 ~
1136 2, 73(124) | Cyril of Alexandria, In Divi Johannis Evangelium, vol. III, ed.
1137 3, 95 | Christ, this must always be joined with tolerance and charity,
1138 2, 66 | fundamental commandment (cf Jos 24:14-25; Ex 19:3-8; Mic
1139 Conc, 118 | the sufferings and the joys of our life, the moral life
1140 2, 77 | intentions, is not sufficient for judging the moral quality of a concrete
1141 2, 31(54) | International Colloquium of Juridical Studies (March 10, 1984),
1142 Conc, 120 | who claim to love him by justifying his sin, for she knows that
1143 3, 94 | words of the Latin poet Juvenal apply to all: "Consider
1144 3, 94 | met with hatred and were killed".148 ~
1145 1, 15 | shall not kill; and whoever kills shall be liable to judgment'.
1146 3, 105 | of man left to himself) kindles the desire for grace and
1147 1, 11 | doing justice and in loving kindness (cf. Mic 6:8). Acknowledging
1148 2, 38 | is described as a form of kingship. For example, Saint Gregory
1149 2, 53 | in the past, when no one knew the progress humanity would
1150 2, 32 | universal truth about the good, knowable by human reason, is lost,
1151 2, 70 | exists also when a person knowingly and willingly, for whatever
1152 2, 53(100) | AAS 54 (1962), 792; cf. L'Osservatore Romano, October
1153 2, 80 | conditions of work which treat labourers as mere instruments of profit,
1154 3, 101(160) | Encyclical Letter Christifideles Laici (December30,1988), 42: AAS
1155 1, 12 | or mother or children or lands, for my name's sake, will
1156 2, 69 | man is able, in a brief lapse of time, to sever radically
1157 3, 84 | Good and Freedom has been largely lost sight of by present-day
1158 2, 30 | retribution after death? Lastly, what is that final, unutterable
1159 2, 48(86) | Catholicae: DS, 902; Fifth Lateran Ecumenical Council, Bull
1160 3, 94 | absent. The words of the Latin poet Juvenal apply to all: "
1161 3, 88 | right and true), and try to learn what is pleasing to the
1162 Conc, 119 | everyone, even the least learned, but particularly those
1163 Conc, 120 | The first stimulus to learning is the nobility of the teacher.
1164 2, 45(84) | Epistulam ad Romanos, c. VIII, lect. 1.~
1165 1, 16 | which would transcend a legalistic interpretation of the commandments,
1166 2, 44 | man if, as his own supreme legislator, he gave himself the rule
1167 3, 106 | full cultural and social legitimacy. ~
1168 2, 56 | basis, an attempt is made to legitimize so-called "pastoral" solutions
1169 3, 100 | deliberate retention of goods lent or objects lost, business
1170 3, 99(155) | Praestantissimum (June 20,1888), LeonisXIII P.M. Acts, VIII, Romae 1889,
1171 2, 53(99) | Saint Vincent of Lerins, Commonitorium Primum, c.
1172 1, 24 | will).31 ~The gift does not lessen but reinforces the moral
1173 1, 26 | behaviour. This is seen in their Letters, which contain the interpretation,
1174 Conc, 119 | abandoning oneself to him, in letting oneself be transformed by
1175 2, 47 | and naturalism have been levelled against the traditional
1176 2, 46 | progress and certain forms of liberalism have led to these two terms
1177 3, 87 | far from the house of your liberator!".140 ~The Church, and each
1178 2, 31(54) | Christian Freedom and Liberation Libertatis Conscientia (March 22, 1986),
1179 2, 83 | perfect law, the law of liberty" (Jas 1:25). ~
1180 3, 91(143) | Venerable, Homeliarum Evangelii Libri, II, 23: CCL 122, 556-557.~
1181 2, 58(103) | In II Librum Sentent., dist. 39, a. 1,
1182 2, 34 | cultivate it in wrong ways as a licence to do anything they please,
1183 2, 46 | would be his own personal life-project. Man would be nothing more
1184 1, 13 | without them), one begins to lift up one's head towards freedom.
1185 | likely
1186 2, 30 | teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from
1187 2, 40(72) | the occasion of their ad Limina Visit (October 15,1988),
1188 3, 105 | eliminate awareness of one's own limits and of one's own sin. In
1189 1, 27 | Revelation and follow in the line of the interpretation given
1190 2, 67 | genuine choice of freedom and links that choice profoundly to
1191 1, 13 | Jesus does not intend to list each and every one of the
1192 2, 49 | the Council of Trent"88 — lists as "mortal sins" or "immoral
1193 2, 43 | loves and cares, in the most literal and basic sense, for all
1194 1, 24(31) | 27,176; cf. De Gratia et Livero Arbitrio, XV: PL 44, 899.~
1195 1, 15 | is ready to live out the loftiest challenges. Jesus shows
1196 1, 7 | teaching would display the lofty vocation which the faithful
1197 2, 68 | added. According to the logic of the positions mentioned
1198 2, 34(59) | Longman, Green and Company, London,1868-1881), vol. 2, p. 250.~
1199 2, 34(59) | Teaching (Uniform Edition: Longman, Green and Company, London,
1200 2, 45 | Church gratefully accepts and lovingly preserves the entire deposit
1201 2, 52 | limit, but it does have a lower limit, beneath which the
1202 3, 110 | ministry, the example of a loyal assent, both internal and
1203 3, 103 | speaking? Of man dominated by lust or of man redeemed by Christ?
1204 1, 15 | one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery
1205 2, 41(74) | Augustine, Enarratio in Psalmum LXII,16: CCL 39, 804.~
1206 Int, 4(8) | Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra (May 15,1961): AAS 53 (1961),
1207 1, 15 | Sermon on the Mount", the magna charta of Gospel morality,24
1208 1, 26(38) | Ignatius of Antioch, Ad Magnesios, VI,1-2: Patres Apostolici,
1209 3, 84 | law, nor is it any longer maintained that, when all is said and
1210 3, 102 | as a person. Certainly, maintaining a harmony between freedom
1211 2, 82 | rejected as erroneous which maintains that it is impossible to
1212 2, 41 | transcendent: Deus semper maior.74 ~
1213 2, 46 | place the human body, its make-up and its processes: against
1214 2, 61 | good, as well as to the malice of his particular choice.
1215 2, 80 | intrinsically evil" (intrinsece malum): they are such always and
1216 3, 101 | convictions can easily be manipulated for reasons of power. As
1217 2, 50 | nature. By rejecting all manipulations of corporeity which alter
1218 1, 22 | it is not expedient to marry" (Mt 19:10). And Jesus,
1219 2, 42 | effectively and assiduously marshalling the appropriate means".75 ~
1220 1, 21 | Christians, but Christ (...). Marvel and rejoice: we have become
1221 1, 19 | It is an invitation the marvellous grandeur of which will be
1222 3, 101 | conception of the world — Marxism being the foremost of these —
1223 Int, 4(8) | XXIII, Encyclical Letter Mater et Magistra (May 15,1961):
1224 2, 48 | presuppositions or preambles, materially necessary for freedom to
1225 2, 55 | hold that this process of maturing is inhibited by the excessively
1226 2, 74 | would be the one capable of "maximizing" goods and "minimizing"
1227 2, 55 | the other hand, they give maximum attention to the value of
1228 1, 12(20) | Cf. Saint Maximus the Confessor, Quaestiones
1229 2, 53 | experience, but would render meaningless Jesus' reference to the "
1230 2, 47 | behavioural models and the meanings which the latter acquire
1231 2, 77 | proportions which depend on a measuring, the criteria of which remain
1232 3, 113 | polemics carried on in the media, is opposed to ecclesial
1233 2, 44 | the Lord and on his law he meditates day and night" (Ps 1:1-2). "
1234 2, 28 | 28. Our meditation on the dialogue between
1235 Int, 4 | faith and morality, as if membership in the Church and her internal
1236 3, 91(142) | Roman Missal, Prayer for the Memorial of the Beheading of John
1237 2, 81(134) | Contra Mendacium, VII, 18: PL 40, 528; cf.
1238 2, 80 | mutilation, physical and mental torture and attempts to
1239 2, 33 | reality of human freedom. ~Mention should also be made here
1240 3, 100 | or exchanging them like merchandise. Reducing persons by violence
1241 3, 112 | they can be saved without merit. God also reminds sinners
1242 Conc, 120 | keep it (cf Lk 11:28), and merited the title of "Seat of Wisdom".
1243 2, 58 | is like God's herald and messenger; it does not command things
1244 3, 91 | became the forerunner of the Messiah in the way he died (cf Mk
1245 2, 55 | leads man not so much to a meticulous observance of universal
1246 3, 105 | prayer of Saint Ambrose of Milan: "What then is man, if you
1247 3, 106 | the social and cultural milieux which she encounters in
1248 3, 108 | confirmed the hearts and minds of the disciples, who revealed
1249 3, 84 | unjust destruction of goods minimally necessary for a human life.
1250 2, 74 | maximizing" goods and "minimizing" evils. ~Many of the Catholic
1251 3, 117 | made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not in
1252 3, 99 | rights, by going against the minority, by isolating, oppressing,
1253 Conc, 118 | 30), makes possible the miracle of the perfect accomplishment
1254 3, 108 | and healings, accomplishes miracles, grants the discernment
1255 2, 34(58) | XVI, Encyclical Epistle Mirari Vos Arbitramur (August 15,
1256 3, 100 | another (cf Am 8:4-6), the misappropriation and private use of the corporate
1257 3, 91(142) | Roman Missal, Prayer for the Memorial
1258 Conc, 118(181)| redimeres, Filium tradidisti!" Missale Romanum, In Resurrectione
1259 2, 63 | a question of what man, mistakenly, subjectively considers
1260 2, 62 | infallible judge; it can make mistakes. However, error of conscience
1261 2, 46 | dimension of nature and in misunderstanding its integrity. For some, "
1262 2, 49 | freedom. This reduction misunderstands the moral meaning of the
1263 2, 33 | made here of theories which misuse scientific research about
1264 2, 75 | where goodness is always mixed with evil, and every good
1265 2, 47 | consideration the behavioural models and the meanings which the
1266 2, 28(44) | Constitution on the Church in the Modem World Gaudium et Spes, 22.~
1267 3, 100 | virtue of temperance, to moderate our attachment to the goods
1268 1, 15(24) | Augustine, De Sermone Domini in Monte, I, 1, 1: CCL 35,1-2.~
1269 2, 45 | affections to act".84 ~Even if moral-theological reflection usually distinguishes
1270 2, 71(120) | a. 3: "Idem sunt actus morales et actus humani."~
1271 3, 93(146) | Moralia in Job, VII, 21, 24: PL
1272 1, 7 | prompting which sets freedom in motion. This question is ultimately
1273 2, 42 | conscious and free choice, as motivated and prompted personally
1274 2, 83 | it and to live it as the motivating force of true personal freedom: "
1275 2, 79 | natural inclinations, his motivations and his finalities, which
1276 2, 81 | by doing them for good motives (causis bonis), they would
1277 1, 24 | did not come down from the mountain carrying, like Moses, tablets
1278 2, 43 | of the divine wisdom as moving all things to their due
1279 2, 71(121) | De Vita Moysis, II, 2-3: PG 44, 327-328.~
1280 3, 93(146) | 24: PL 75, 778: "huius mundi aspera pro aeternis praemiis
1281 2, 80 | the human person, such as mutilation, physical and mental torture
1282 3, 111 | Christian ascetical and mystical theology".176 ~Certainly
1283 2, 30 | the truth and wander into myths. As for you, always be steady,
1284 | namely
1285 3, 102(162) | Council cites is found in De Narura et Gratia, 43, 40 (CSEL
1286 3, 97 | coexistence, both on the national and international levels. ~
1287 2, 47 | objections of physicalism and naturalism have been levelled against
1288 2, 41 | person the image and the nearness of God, who is present in
1289 3, 111 | theology, however, while needing to make use of the behavioural
1290 3, 94(147) | Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori
1291 2, 42 | freedom, man's freedom is not negated by his obedience to the
1292 2, 80 | injustice, and they are a negation of the honour due to the
1293 2, 30 | exposed to error, ambiguity or neglect. Yet these are the very
1294 3, 87 | Crucified and Risen Lord is the never-ending source from which the Church
1295 2, 74 | last few decades new or newly-revived theological and cultural
1296 2, 34 | As Cardinal John Henry Newman, that outstanding defender
1297 | next
1298 2, 44 | law he meditates day and night" (Ps 1:1-2). "The law of
1299 1, 6 | young man, related in the nineteenth chapter of Saint Matthew'
1300 Conc, 120 | stimulus to learning is the nobility of the teacher. Who can
1301 2, 74 | cooperation with non-Catholics and non-believers, especially in pluralistic
1302 2, 74 | dialogue and cooperation with non-Catholics and non-believers, especially
1303 2, 30(50) | Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate,
1304 2, 63 | invincible ignorance or a non-culpable error of judgment may not
1305 2, 34(59) | to His Grace the Duke of Norfolk: Certain Difficulties Felt
1306 3, 113 | of opinion may constitute normal expressions of public life
1307 2, 30(50) | Non-Christian Religions Nostra Aetate, 1.~
1308 Int, 4 | choices. ~In particular, note should be taken of the lack
1309 1, 13 | Nevertheless we cannot fail to notice which commandments of the
1310 3, 107 | Phil 3:3), flowing from and nourished by that inexhaustible source
1311 3, 108 | aimed at generating and nourishing "the faith which works through
1312 Int, 4(8) | Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum of Leo XIII (June 1, 1941):
1313 3, 108 | and life situations. As Novatian once pointed out, here expressing
1314 3, 108(167) | Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (December 8, 1975), 75:
1315 3, 102 | morality so that he can be obedient to God's holy commandment
1316 3, 107 | help of grace, the more one obeys the new law of the Holy
1317 2, 46 | procedures of scientific objectification, technological progress
1318 2, 70 | it in such a way that it objectively changes or casts doubt upon
1319 2, 67 | such a way that freedom is obligated, is always brought into
1320 3, 110 | expound the validity and obligatory nature of the precepts it
1321 1, 9 | attracts and at the same time obliges man has its source in God,
1322 2, 51 | in present-day culture, obscures the perception of the universality
1323 2, 33 | legitimately drawn from these observations, have come to question or
1324 1, 14 | reminds him that only by observing them will he have eternal
1325 Conc, 118 | matter how many and great the obstacles put in his way by human
1326 2, 77 | Mt 15:19) — and the goods obtained and the evils avoided as
1327 Conc, 120 | one of us, the Mother who obtains for us divine mercy. ~Mary
1328 Int, 4 | presuppositions is the more or less obvious influence of currents of
1329 2, 47 | determining the meaning" would obviously have to take into account
1330 Int, 4 | a matter of limited and occasional dissent, but of an overall
1331 3, 102 | between freedom and truth occasionally demands uncommon sacrifices,
1332 2, 33 | exaltation of freedom, yet oddly in contrast with it, modern
1333 2, 68 | committed mortal sin, he offends God as the giver of the
1334 2, 80 | the spirit; whatever is offensive to human dignity, such as
1335 2, 59(105) | Congregation of the Holy Office, Instruction on "Situation
1336 1, 8 | salvation, as the Alpha and the Omega of human history (cf. Rev
1337 3, 95 | charity towards souls to omit nothing from the saving
1338 3, 84 | conception and before birth; the ongoing violation of basic rights
1339 2, 75 | term non-moral, physical or ontic (in relation to the advantages
1340 2, 53(100) | spoken by John XXIII at the opening of the Second Vatican Council
1341 2, 62 | tamper with God's word", but "openly state the truth" (cf 2 Cor
1342 2, 81 | themselves sins (cum iam opera ipsa peccata sunt), Saint
1343 2, 38(65) | De Hominis Opificio, Chap. 4: PG 44,135-136.~
1344 1, 17 | firmness with which the Apostle opposes those who believe that they
1345 3, 99 | minority, by isolating, oppressing, or exploiting it, or by
1346 3, 103(163) | Oratio I: PG 97, 805-806.~
1347 3, 113 | in the form of carefully orchestrated protests and polemics carried
1348 2, 72 | by Divine Wisdom which orders every being towards its
1349 2, 44 | there that has statutes and ordinances so righteous as all this
1350 3, 93 | demand, even in the most ordinary circumstances, the Christian
1351 Conc, 119 | following Christ develops in an organic manner, without the falsification
1352 2, 41 | clear that man does not originally possess such "knowledge"
1353 2, 53(100) | AAS 54 (1962), 792; cf. L'Osservatore Romano, October 12, 1962,
1354 3, 105 | Apostle Paul. And in an outburst of joy and gratitude he
1355 2, 32 | acting accordingly. Such an outlook is quite congenial to an
1356 3, 95 | most profound meaning as an outpouring of God's eternal Wisdom,
1357 2, 33 | theories end up, if not with an outright denial of universal human
1358 3, 99 | above all the problem of overcoming the various forms of totalitarianism,
1359 2, 46 | approaches are at one in overlooking the created dimension of
1360 2, 53(100) | to which the faithful owe obedience, needs to be more
1361 1, 26(37) | Clement of Alexandria, Paedagogus, I, 10; II, 10: PG 8, 3ff-364;
1362 1, 26 | Gentiles, differed from the pagans not only in their faith
1363 1, 11 | imbued in every one of its pages with a lively perception
1364 2, 34(58) | 15, 1832): Acta Gregoree Papae XVI, I, 169-174; Pius IX,
1365 2, 66 | decision and choice. The Gospel parables of the treasure and the
1366 2, 37 | an exhortation, a generic paraenesis, which the autonomous reason
1367 1, 13 | Matthew's text with the parallel passages in Mark and Luke,
1368 1, 6(13) | Cf. Apostolic Epistle Parati Semper to the Young People
1369 3, 103 | into sin, can always obtain pardon and enjoy the presence of
1370 3, 103(164) | a course on "responsible parenthood" (March 1, 1984), 4: Insegnamenti
1371 2, 41 | rightly so, of theonomy, or participated theonomy, since man's free
1372 2, 55 | all their uniqueness and particularity. While such norms might
1373 Conc, 118(181)| Resurrectione Domini, Praeconium Paschale.~
1374 2, 76(125) | 1713) against the Errors of Paschasius Quesnel, Nos. 53-56: DS,
1375 1, 13 | s text with the parallel passages in Mark and Luke, it is
1376 Int, 4 | authority they have exhorted, passed judgment and explained.
1377 3, 86 | openness to all that exists, in passing beyond self to knowledge
1378 2, 43 | the whole world and the paths of the human community.
1379 2, 30 | exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching. For the
1380 2, 78 | through charity. As the Patron of moral theologians and
1381 2, 42 | 42. Patterned on God's freedom, man's
1382 1, 23 | who admirably sums up this Pauline dialectic of law and grace: "
1383 3, 97 | citizens are required to pay heed. Even though intentions
1384 2, 77 | outward practices without paying attention to the heart (
1385 2, 78 | Christian ethics, which pays particular attention to
1386 2, 66 | of the treasure and the pearl of great price, for which
1387 2, 81 | sins (cum iam opera ipsa peccata sunt), Saint Augustine writes,
1388 1, 23 | Law). He recognizes the pedagogic function of the Law, which,
1389 2, 33 | various areas, for example in pedagogy or the administration of
1390 2, 49(88) | Exhortation on Reconciliation and Penance in the Mission of the Church
1391 2, 46 | by a similar tension. The penchant for empirical observation,
1392 2, 58 | whose voice and judgment penetrate the depths of man's soul,
1393 2, 65 | sciences to develop a more penetrating analysis of its nature and
1394 1, 24 | from heaven on the day of Pentecost, and that the Apostles "
1395 3, 107 | and most attractive way to perceive at once the beauty of truth,
1396 2, 71 | spiritual traits. This was perceptively noted by Saint Gregory of
1397 3, 94(147) | et propter vitam vivendi perdere causas": Satirae, VIII,
1398 2, 68 | fact, man does not suffer perdition only by being unfaithful
1399 3, 89 | him truly love for God is perfected. By this we may be sure
1400 2, 72 | young man's conviction: the performance of good acts, commanded
1401 2, 46 | human history. At other periods, it seemed that "nature"
1402 3, 102 | he has not given any one permission to sin" (Sir 15:19-20).
1403 3, 92 | s "humanity", in the one perpetrating it even before the one enduring
1404 1, 27 | teaching, life and worship, perpetuates and hands on to every generation
1405 3, 84 | reflects the distressing perplexity of a man who often no longer
1406 3, 91 | Countless other martyrs accepted persecution and death rather than perform
1407 Int, 1 | for understanding and for perseverance, does not free humanity
1408 2, 68 | continue to be morally good, persevere in God's grace and attain
1409 2, 68 | Jas 2:8-11); even if he perseveres in faith, he loses "sanctifying
1410 2, 76 | theories can gain a certain persuasive force from their affinity
1411 2, 77 | disagreement with the scribes and Pharisees, who prescribed in great
1412 3, 111 | empirical observation or phenomenological understanding alone. Indeed,
1413 3, 100 | brother... in the Lord' (Philem 16)".159 ~
1414 2, 73(124) | Evangelium, vol. III, ed. Philip Edward Pusey, Brussels,
1415 Conc, 120 | doctrines, even in the areas of philosophy and theology, can make man
1416 1, 9 | and Luke the question is phrased in this way: "Why do you
1417 2, 46 | senses within space and time, physio-chemical constants, bodily processes,
1418 3, 103 | which flow forth from the pierced side of the Redeemer (cf
1419 2, 34(58) | Cura (December 8, 1864): Pii IX P.M. Acta, I, 3, 687-
1420 1, 27 | is thus revealed as "the pillar and bulwark of the truth" (
1421 2, 65 | Emphasis has rightly been placed on the importance of certain
1422 2, 67 | is always brought into play through conscious and free
1423 2, 34 | licence to do anything they please, even evil", speaks of "
1424 1, 15 | which is achieved in Christ (plenitudo legis in Christo est), since
1425 3, 93 | communities themselves, a headlong plunge into the most dangerous
1426 3, 84 | infrequently witness the fearful plunging of the human person into
1427 Int, 4 | the sphere of morality a pluralism of opinions and of kinds
1428 2, 74 | non-believers, especially in pluralistic societies. ~
1429 3, 94 | The words of the Latin poet Juvenal apply to all: "Consider
1430 1, 22 | the rich young man is very poignant: "When the young man heard
1431 3, 113 | orchestrated protests and polemics carried on in the media,
1432 3, 101 | the service of the body politic, respect for the rights
1433 2, 44 | exhortation to know it, ponder it and translate it into
1434 Conc, 120 | world. By accepting and pondering in her heart events which
1435 3, 109(171) | Professors and Students of the Pontifical Gregorian University (December
1436 Conc, 120 | 1993, the fifteenth of my Pontificate. ~JOHN PAUL II ~ ~
1437 3, 96 | master of the world or the "poorest of the poor" on the face
1438 Int, 4 | last two centuries, the Popes, whether individually or
1439 Int, 3(5) | 878; cf. Encyclical Letter Populorum Progressio (March 26,1967),
1440 2, 45 | Rom 8:29). God's plan poses no threat to man's genuine
1441 2, 32 | currents of thought which posit a radical opposition between
1442 2, 55 | excessively categorical position adopted by the Church's
1443 3, 112 | relativism, pragmatism and positivism. From the theological viewpoint,
1444 1, 24 | having received the gift, of possessing in Jesus Christ the love
1445 2, 67 | explicit consideration of the potentialities which it puts into effect
1446 1, 22 | charity: "God's love has been poured into our hearts through
1447 3, 106 | Evangelization is the most powerful and stirring challenge which
1448 1, 23 | to take stock of his own powerlessness and by stripping him of
1449 3, 108 | they even trampled upon the powers and torments of the world,
1450 2, 61 | in the law of reason, is practically and concretely recognized
1451 Conc, 118(181)| In Resurrectione Domini, Praeconium Paschale.~
1452 3, 94(147) | Summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori et propter vitam
1453 3, 93(146) | mundi aspera pro aeternis praemiis amore."~
1454 3, 106 | relativism appear not merely as pragmatic attitudes or patterns of
1455 2, 50 | being, it can be licit, praiseworthy or even imperative to give
1456 2, 78(129) | Alphonsus Maria De Liguori, Pratica di amar Gesù Cristo, VII,
1457 3, 102 | to do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and
1458 3, 114 | our constant and confident prayers we support believers in
1459 Bles | Lord. Hence the Psalmist prays: "Let the light of your
1460 3, 114 | preaching of the Gospel is pre-eminent. For the Bishops are the
1461 2, 47 | sterilization, autoeroticism, pre-marital sexual relations, homosexual
1462 3, 107 | Jesus himself, even as he preached the Kingdom of God and its
1463 2, 48 | appear as presuppositions or preambles, materially necessary for
1464 2, 44 | morality. Thus my Venerable Predecessor Leo XIII emphasized the
1465 2, 45 | loving counsel whereby God predestines men and women "to be conformed
1466 3, 94 | the greatest of crimes to prefer survival to honour and,
1467 3, 91 | enduring martyrdom, or who preferred death to a single mortal
1468 3, 86 | all too often he actually prefers to choose finite, limited
1469 2, 65 | proportion between the "premoral" or "physical" goods and
1470 Int, 3 | considered by the Church as a preparation for the Gospel and bestowed
1471 3, 105 | the desire for grace and prepares one to receive it. "Who
1472 2, 32 | individual conscience the prerogative of independently determining
1473 2, 34 | provides the answer, cannot prescind from the issue of freedom.
1474 2, 65 | his fundamental option, prescinding in whole or in part from
1475 2, 75 | notion of freedom which prescinds from the actual conditions
1476 2, 77 | scribes and Pharisees, who prescribed in great detail certain
1477 2, 44 | divine Lawgiver: "But this prescription of human reason could not
1478 2, 51 | for the transmission and preservation of life, refine and develop
1479 2, 45 | gratefully accepts and lovingly preserves the entire deposit of Revelation,
1480 1, 8 | Jesus this question, we can presume that it is not because he
1481 2, 73 | upon one's intention. It presupposes that such acts are in themselves
1482 3, 88 | and its power to judge a prevalent and all-intrusive culture.
1483 3, 112 | in the context of today's prevalently scientific and technical
1484 Conc, 118 | erase the mercy of God, or prevent him from unleashing all
1485 2, 49 | wilful acceptance of which prevents believers from sharing in
1486 3, 100 | Dt 24:14-15), forcing up prices by trading on the ignorance
1487 1, 17 | Apostle Paul with joy and pride. But he immediately adds: "
1488 3, 111(176) | Theological formation of Future Priests (February 22, 1976), No.
1489 2, 35 | values" and would enjoy a primacy over truth, to the point
1490 2, 79 | persons concerned. ~The primary and decisive element for
1491 3, 91 | voluntary acceptance of death. A prime example is the story of
1492 2, 53(99) | of Lerins, Commonitorium Primum, c. 23: PG 50, 668.~
1493 3, 114 | Church's Pastors: "Among the principal tasks of Bishops the preaching
1494 2, 34 | the truth, there exists a prior moral obligation, and a
1495 2, 56 | have to acknowledge the priority of a certain more concrete
1496 3, 91 | cast into the darkness of prison... The one to whom it was
1497 2, 53 | man does not become the prisoner of any of his cultures,
1498 3, 108 | they did not fear either prisons or chains for the name of
1499 3, 96 | intrinsic evil, there are no privileges or exceptions for anyone.
1500 2, 50(90) | Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation Donum Vitae (February 22,
1501 2, 39 | such a concept of autonomy produces particularly baneful effects,
1502 2, 74 | or not it is capable of producing a better state of affairs
1503 2, 46 | words "culture", seen as the product and result of freedom. Human
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