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Doing as I Please or Pleasing as I Do

September 22, 2019 Bishop Thomas John Paprocki 4

Editor’s note: The following essay was originally delivered (with the subhead “Constructive and Destructive Autonomy in Relation to Conscience, Freedom and Obligation”) as a public lecture at the International Symposium on Privacy and Autonomy in […]

Essay

“We live in a devastated age”: Reflections from Guardini on being “Lost in Chaos”

April 15, 2019 Tracey Rowland 8

In 1933 Romano Guardini published a small monograph consisting of three lectures around the subject of conscience. It was originally titled Das Gute, das Gewissen und die Sammlung – the good, conscience and inner composure. […]

The Dispatch

The legal and moral genius of St. Thomas More

March 27, 2018 Gregory J. Sullivan 4

A new book examines the life and mind of a man who is today much revered—and misunderstood. […]

The Dispatch

Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation

February 21, 2018 George Weigel 6

Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]

Features

“The Restoration of Man”: Cardinal Carlo Caffarra’s Final Testimony

September 20, 2017 CWR Staff 10

The full text of a scheduled address by the late archbishop emeritus of Bologna, in which he provocatively states, “Everything that makes up what we call […]

Features

Two Englishmen whose lives were commentary on the question of conscience

September 5, 2017 Stephanie A. Mann 4

For Thomas More, following his conscience led him to martyrdom; for John Henry Newman, following his conscience led him to become a Catholic. […]

Essay

“Amoris Laetitia” and the chasm in modern moral theology

September 1, 2017 Fr. D. Vincent Twomey, SVD 68

Can the apostolic exhortation help bridge the chasm that, since 1968, has divided moral theologians in matters of sexual morality? […]

History

Martin Luther: True reformer or defender of erroneous conscience?

June 25, 2017 Dr. R. Jared Staudt 6

Two trials, two appeals to conscience. Trial 1: I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. […]

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