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Centesimus annus
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1 2, 15 | suffering any affront to one's conscience or personal dignity. This
2 2, 16 | began as a response of moral conscience to unjust and harmful situations,
3 3, 23 | truth, appealing to the conscience of the adversary and seeking
4 3, 29 | the rights of the human conscience, which is bound only to
5 6, 59 | where Christian life and conscience come into contact with the
Dives in misericordia
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6 6, 11 | ability to obey the voice of conscience that tells him the right
7 6, 11 | threats to human freedom, conscience and religion - this picture
8 6, 12 | which the contemporary human conscience has placed justice, gives
9 8, 15 | humanity. The more the human conscience succumbs to secularization,
10 8, 15 | word "mercy," or if in his conscience empty of religious content
Dominum et vivificantem
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11 2, 31 | interior judgment of the conscience, and this, being a proof
12 2, 31 | the gift of the truth of conscience and the gift of the certainty
13 2, 32 | world," man or the human conscience of this ineffable truth.
14 2, 32 | enough to search the human conscience, the intimate mystery of
15 2, 33 | place in man's will - and conscience - first of all as "disobedience,"
16 2, 36 | Spirit gives the gift of conscience, so that in this conscience
17 2, 36 | conscience, so that in this conscience the image may faithfully
18 2, 36 | is for man the light of conscience and the source of the moral
19 2, 40 | blemish to God, purify your conscience from dead works to serve
20 2, 40 | on the "purification of conscience" which it accomplishes.
21 2 | Blood that Purifies the Conscience ~ ~
22 2, 42 | this "blood purifies the conscience."164 It therefore, so to
23 2, 43 | the Catholic teaching on conscience when it spoke about man'
24 2, 43 | person. It is precisely the conscience in particular which determines
25 2, 43 | determines this dignity. For the conscience is "the most secret core
26 2, 43 | time, "in the depths of his conscience, man detects a law which
27 2, 43 | him to obedience."165 The conscience therefore is not an independent
28 2, 43 | Precisely in this sense the conscience is the "secret sanctuary"
29 2, 43 | God's voice echoes." The conscience is "the voice of God," even
30 2, 43 | reference to this that the conscience always finds its foundation
31 2, 43 | other way except through the conscience. If the conscience is upright,
32 2, 43 | through the conscience. If the conscience is upright, it serves "to
33 2, 43 | A result of an upright conscience is, first of all, to call
34 2, 44 | which accompanies the human conscience in every careful reflection
35 2, 44 | of the way in which the conscience has been conditioned in
36 2, 44 | upon the voice of his own conscience "is obliged to wrestle constantly
37 2, 45 | on the part of the human conscience which the Conciliar texts
38 2, 45 | This laborious effort of conscience also determines the paths
39 2, 45 | great effort. We know that conscience not only commands and forbids
40 2, 45 | truth permits the human conscience to share in that suffering,
41 2, 45 | suffering, the suffering of the conscience becomes particularly profound,
42 2, 45 | laborious effort of the conscience in which this "metanoia,"
43 2, 45 | depths" of man, of the human conscience, the mission of the Son
44 2, 45 | of Christ...purifies your conscience from dead works to serve
45 2, 46 | Blood which "purifies the conscience from dead works." ~We know
46 2, 46 | which he brings about in the conscience. If Jesus says that blasphemy
47 2, 47 | were an impenetrability of conscience, a state of mind which could
48 2, 47 | room for that openness of conscience necessary for the saving
49 2, 48 | effects the purifying of the conscience through the Blood of the
50 3, 54 | man's being, in his mind, conscience and heart: an ontological
51 3, 55 | the dictates of an upright conscience, and at the same time it
52 3, 60 | into that sanctuary of the conscience where the Holy Spirit continuously
Ecclesia de Eucharistia
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53 4, 36 | with a sullied and corrupt conscience. Such an act, in fact, can
54 4, 37 | 5:20). If a Christian's conscience is burdened by serious sin,
55 4, 37 | question of examining one's conscience. However, in cases of outward
Evangelium vitae
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56 Int, 3 | sentiment of every upright conscience: "Whatever is opposed to
57 Int, 4 | disturbing is the fact that conscience itself, darkened as it were
58 1, 11 | of "eclipse", even though conscience does not cease to point
59 1, 24 | at the heart of the moral conscience that the eclipse of the
60 1, 24 | above all, of the individual conscience, as it stands before God
61 1, 24 | certain sense, of the "moral conscience" of society: in a way it
62 1, 24 | against life. The moral conscience, both individual and social,
63 1, 24 | practise them" (Rom 1:32). When conscience, this bright lamp of the
64 1, 24 | the Lord echoing in the conscience of every individual: it
65 1, 24 | intimate sanctuary of the conscience that a new journey of love,
66 2, 29 | woman, has echoed in every conscience "from the beginning", from
67 2, 40 | beginning in man's heart, in his conscience. The question: "What have
68 2, 40 | person: in the depths of his conscience, man is always reminded
69 3, 58 | symptom of an uneasiness of conscience. But no word has the power
70 3, 65 | and inevitable, one can in conscience "refuse forms of treatment
71 3, 69 | separate the realm of private conscience from that of public conduct.~
72 3, 69 | a renouncing of personal conscience, at least in the public
73 3, 70 | human beings? Everyone's conscience rightly rejects those crimes
74 3, 70 | obscuring of the collective conscience, an attitude of scepticism
75 3, 71 | civil law take the place of conscience or dictate norms concerning
76 3, 71 | based on respect for the conscience of others, precisely because
77 3, 71 | can occur in the name of conscience and under the pretext of
78 3, 72 | have no binding force in conscience...; indeed, the passing
79 3, 73 | There is no obligation in conscience to obey such laws; instead
80 3, 73 | A particular problem of conscience can arise in cases where
81 3, 74 | raises difficult problems of conscience for morally upright people
82 3, 74 | under grave obligation of conscience not to cooperate formally
83 3, 77 | It resounds in the moral conscience of everyone as an irrepressible
84 4, 90 | to God, to his or her own conscience and to the whole of society
85 4, 90 | presence deeply felt in every conscience, the Church encourages political
86 4, 96 | critical in the formation of conscience is the recovery of the necessary
87 4, 97 | connected with the formation of conscience is the work of education,
88 4, 101 | question arises in every human conscience which seeks the truth and
Fides et ratio
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89 4, 36 | God and to the voice of conscience in every human being (cf.
90 6, 66 | concepts such as the moral law, conscience, freedom, personal responsibility
91 6, 68 | able fully to engage their conscience and the power of their reason.
92 7, 82 | the judgements of moral conscience, which Sacred Scripture
93 7, 90(106)| soul, his heart and his conscience”: Encyclical Letter Redemptor
94 7, 98 | scientific fields, the ethical conscience of people is disoriented.
95 7, 98 | inevitably the notion of conscience also changes. Conscience
96 7, 98 | conscience also changes. Conscience is no longer considered
97 7, 98 | grant to the individual conscience the prerogative of independently
Redemptor hominis
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98 2, 12 | intellect, his will, his conscience and his freedom81. Thus
99 2, 12 | soul, his heart and his conscience. What a stupendous confirmation
100 3, 14 | intellect and will, of his conscience and heart. Man who in his
101 3, 14 | truth of his life, in his conscience, in his continual inclination
102 3, 16 | outline for an examination of conscience by each and every one: "
103 3, 17 | the right to freedom of conscience. The Second Vatican Council
104 4, 18 | beautiful, and the voice of conscience. Seeking to see man as it
105 4, 20 | with the whole depth of his conscience and with the whole of his
106 4, 20 | the desires of the human conscience. "Blessed are those who
Redemptoris missio
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107 1, 4 | mission? Does not respect for conscience and for freedom exclude
108 1, 8 | safeguarding freedom of conscience: "The human person has a
109 1, 8 | forced to act against his conscience in religious matters, nor
110 1, 8 | acting according to his conscience, whether in private or in
111 4, 39 | honors the sanctuary of conscience. To those who for various
112 5, 43 | communal examination of conscience in order to correct in their
Slavorum apostoli
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113 8, 30 | conformity with their own conscience, the voice of your call
Sollicitudo rei socialis
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114 1, 4 | their force as an appeal to conscience today in the last part of
115 2, 9 | it directly concerns the conscience, which is the source of
116 3, 12 | and to bringing before the conscience of all the urgent obligation
117 3, 17 | order to awaken everyone's conscience and to find a solution to
Ut unum sint
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118 1, 8 | a duty of the Christian conscience enlightened by faith and
119 1, 15 | obligations of the Christian conscience, to the actual practice
120 1, 32 | whatever projects a Christian conscience demands for the common good.
121 1 | Dialogue as an examination of conscience~
122 1, 34 | serves as an examination of conscience. In this context, how can
123 1, 34 | become an examination of conscience, a kind of "dialogue of
124 1, 39 | the demands of one's own conscience and of the conscience of
125 1, 39 | own conscience and of the conscience of the other party, with
126 2, 70 | and respect for one's own conscience as well as for the consciences
127 3, 77 | cannot suffice for the conscience of Christians who profess
128 3, 82 | a serious examination of conscience. The Catholic Church must
Veritatis splendor
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129 Int, 1 | the heart and of the moral conscience. ~
130 Int, 3 | them through the dictate of conscience... can obtain eternal salvation".
131 Int, 4 | the individual subjective conscience or to the diversity of social
132 1, 16 | easy to say with a clear conscience "I have kept all these",
133 2, 30 | law? what is the role of conscience in man's moral development?
134 2, 31 | actions on grounds of duty and conscience, without external pressure
135 2, 31 | freedom and to respect for conscience on its journey towards the
136 2, 31 | respect due to the journey of conscience, certainly represents one
137 2, 32 | atheist. The individual conscience is accorded the status of
138 2, 32 | has a duty to follow one's conscience is unduly added the affirmation
139 2, 32 | it has its origin in the conscience. But in this way the inescapable
140 2, 32 | inevitably the notion of conscience also changes. Conscience
141 2, 32 | conscience also changes. Conscience is no longer considered
142 2, 32 | grant to the individual conscience the prerogative of independently
143 2, 32 | opposition between moral law and conscience, and between nature and
144 2, 34 | defender of the rights of conscience, forcefully put it: "Conscience
145 2, 34 | conscience, forcefully put it: "Conscience has rights because it has
146 2, 34 | moral law, human nature and conscience, and propose novel criteria
147 2, 36 | concretely, by personal conscience. ~Some people, however,
148 2, 52 | through the judgment of conscience. The acting subject personally
149 2 | II. Conscience and truth ~
150 2, 54 | the person, in his moral conscience. As the Second Vatican Council
151 2, 54 | observed: "In the depths of his conscience man detects a law which
152 2, 54 | avoid evil, the voice of conscience can when necessary speak
153 2, 54 | understanding of the moral conscience. Here the cultural tendencies
154 2, 54 | understanding of moral conscience, which diverges from the
155 2, 55 | theologians, the function of conscience had been reduced, at least
156 2, 55 | criterion for judgments of conscience, but a general perspective
157 2, 55 | typical of the phenomenon of conscience, a complexity profoundly
158 2, 55 | attention to the value of conscience, which the Council itself
159 2, 55 | creative" character of conscience, certain authors no longer
160 2, 55 | unnecessary conflicts of conscience. ~
161 2, 56 | in practice and in good conscience what is qualified as intrinsically
162 2, 56 | the norm of the individual conscience, which would in fact make
163 2, 56 | according to which the moral conscience is in no way obliged, in
164 2, 56 | very identity of the moral conscience in relation to human freedom
165 2, 56 | creative" understanding of conscience. ~
166 2 | The judgment of conscience ~
167 2, 57 | biblical understanding of conscience, especially in its specific
168 2, 57 | their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their
169 2, 57 | According to Saint Paul, conscience in a certain sense confronts
170 2, 57 | moral rectitude or iniquity. Conscience is the only witness, since
171 2, 57 | eyes of everyone outside. Conscience makes its witness known
172 2, 57 | response is to the voice of conscience. ~
173 2, 58 | Bonaventure teaches that "conscience is like God's herald and
174 2, 58 | of the king. This is why conscience has binding force".103 Thus
175 2, 58 | Thus it can be said that conscience bears witness to man's own
176 2, 58 | indeed even beforehand, conscience is the witness of God himself,
177 2, 58 | suaviter to obedience. "Moral conscience does not close man within
178 2, 58 | the dignity of the moral conscience: in being the place, the
179 2, 59 | merely acknowledge that conscience acts as a "witness"; he
180 2, 59 | reveals the way in which conscience performs that function.
181 2, 59 | clarifies the precise nature of conscience: it is a moral judgment
182 2, 59 | 2:16). ~The judgment of conscience is a practical judgment,
183 2, 59 | demands of the moral good, conscience is the application of the
184 2, 59 | this particular situation. Conscience thus formulates moral obligation
185 2, 59 | through the workings of his conscience, knows to be a good he is
186 2, 59 | circumstances. The judgment of conscience states "in an ultimate way"
187 2, 60 | knowledge, the judgment of conscience also has an imperative character:
188 2, 60 | stands condemned by his own conscience, the proximate norm of personal
189 2, 60 | morality. The judgment of conscience does not establish the law;
190 2, 60 | commandments he accepts. "Conscience is not an independent and
191 2, 61 | recognized by the judgment of conscience, which leads one to take
192 2, 61 | the just judgment of his conscience remains within him as a
193 2, 61 | choice. But the verdict of conscience remains in him also as a
194 2, 61 | the practical judgment of conscience, which imposes on the person
195 2, 61 | Precisely for this reason conscience expresses itself in acts
196 2, 61 | by the liberation of the conscience from objective truth, in
197 2, 62 | 62. Conscience, as the judgment of an act,
198 2, 62 | puts it, "not infrequently conscience can be mistaken as a result
199 2, 62 | what is true and good, and conscience gradually becomes almost
200 2, 62 | regard to the erroneous conscience. ~Certainly, in order to
201 2, 62 | in order to have a "good conscience" (Tim 1:5), man must seek
202 2, 62 | the Apostle Paul says, the conscience must be "confirmed by the
203 2, 62 | in the judgments of our conscience the possibility of error
204 2, 62 | error is always present. Conscience is not an infallible judge;
205 2, 62 | mistakes. However, error of conscience can be the result of an
206 2, 62 | ignorance is not culpable, conscience does not lose its dignity,
207 2, 63 | truth that the dignity of conscience derives. In the case of
208 2, 63 | the case of the correct conscience, it is a question of the
209 2, 63 | the case of the erroneous conscience, it is a question of what
210 2, 63 | with a true and correct conscience equivalent to the moral
211 2, 63 | judgment of an erroneous conscience.108 It is possible that
212 2, 63 | justified in the name of our conscience, we should reflect on the
213 2, 63 | light (cf Jn 9:39-41). ~Conscience, as the ultimate concrete
214 2, 63 | what is true and good, and conscience gradually becomes almost
215 2, 63 | alludes to the danger of the conscience being deformed when he warns: "
216 2, 64 | represent a call to form our conscience, to make it the object of
217 2, 64 | source of true judgments of conscience. Indeed, in order to "prove
218 2, 64 | help for the formation of conscience in the Church and her Magisterium.
219 2, 64 | undermines the freedom of conscience of Christians. This is so
220 2, 64 | only because freedom of conscience is never freedom "from"
221 2, 64 | not bring to the Christian conscience truths which are extraneous
222 2, 64 | and only at the service of conscience, helping it to avoid being
223 2, 71 | living centre in the moral conscience, is manifested and realized
224 3, 85 | faithful to form a moral conscience which will make judgments
225 3, 94 | living".147 The voice of conscience has always clearly recalled
226 3, 104 | different attitudes of the moral conscience of man in every age. The
227 3, 104 | represents a "repentant" conscience, fully aware of the frailty
228 3, 104 | represents a "self-satisfied" conscience, under the illusion that
229 3, 110 | that they consider them in conscience as morally binding. In addition,
230 3, 117 | question which rises from their conscience, the Lord replies in the
231 Conc, 120 | Christ can grant peace to his conscience and salvation to his life. ~
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