Sentences with phrase «teaching on conscience»

In the third section Luc Terlinden provides a lucid and important exposition of Newman's teaching on conscience.

In a manner familiar by now, they construe the teaching on conscience as a «conscience clause» exempting them from moral responsibility.

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... while Paul VI did write that it was his responsibility to sift the material he had been given by many advisers, including the papal commission on marriage and fertility that Pope John XXIII had established and that he, Paul, had expanded, he also made clear that the teaching of Humanae Vitae rested, not on the personal conscience of Giovanni Battista Montini, but on the mature conviction of Pope Paul VI as custodian and servant, not master, of the Catholic tradition.

Only what is taught in Scripture is binding on the conscience.

The work of Janet Smith and others in promoting this Catholic teaching and the widespread interest in the teaching of Pope John Paul on love and marriage should stir the conscience of those who promoted the «follow your conscience» line on contraception.

His teachings on the subject combined the spiritual athleticism of William Law's Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, the Moravian emphasis on felt assurance of salvation (which Wesley extended to include sanctification), and the Puritan insistence onminute examination of conscience coupled with sanctified action in all spheres of life.

While they support his election as pope, nearly three - quarters of American Catholics say they are more likely to follow their own conscience on difficult moral questions than the teachings of the pope.

The student of Aquinas already familiar with his teachings on individual personal responsibility, conscience, and the role of reason and will in free choice is likely to be surprised by his unremitting hostility to heretics.

Even for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.

Central Christian moral teachings, especially those on love, marriage, and family life, are under constant attack and recent court cases in Britain have established that it is increasingly difficult for Christians to live and work according to their consciences.

A brilliant moral theologian, he had a great impact on Synod 2015, where his five - minute exposition of what conscience means taught a lesson to more than one confused or ill - informed bishop.

The Church highlights the need to inform our consciences to enable us to make informed choices, namely, those based on Church teaching, in other words, «reason informed by faith».