picchick Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 "freedom of conscience for Catholics with respect to these choices [abortion, etc.], and that is exactly where I am." As Catholics we have a duty to form our conscience correctly. The Church is there to help. With her guidelines of morality and teachings, (which the Church did not make up) we can form our consciences correctly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aloysius Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 wow, at first i saw only one X so i was thinkin, well the guy in montana maybe... but then i saw two X's... i believe he mixed John XXIII and Pius XII to creat some sort of monster mixture of 2 popes that teaches moral relativism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thy Geekdom Come Posted August 1, 2004 Share Posted August 1, 2004 [quote] "freedom of conscience for Catholics with respect to these choices [abortion, etc.], and that is exactly where I am."[/quote] You know, I had a moral theology teacher in seminary who tried to pull that kind of stuff on the students. Boy were we angry. The Catechism says that people should always follow their consciences, so this teacher (a priest, what's more), said that we could disregard the Church if we thought otherwise (of course, if that were the Church teaching, then I could disregard it and just follow the Magisterium, right? ). Well the trouble is that the same section in the Catechism says that we should form our Catechism off the teachings of the Magisterium. Therefore, we [b]cannot[/b] disregard the Magisterium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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