Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Freedom & Conscience
- human freedom
- limited by the unique circumstances of each person's life
- true freedom is not doing whatever you want, but whatever you ought
- good moral actions make us freer, bad moral actions make us a slave to sin
- a moral act involves both deliberation and choice, has a moral content, and affects the character of the person
- a moral act is an action that results from a deliberate choice between good and evil
- if love is taken or required, it is no longer free
- conscience
- practical application of the objective moral law to concrete circumstances
- the reality of conscience is witnessed in both sacred scriptures and through human experience
- we both have a right and a duty to exercise our moral conscience
- a good conscience applies moral truth; not create it
- conscience fails when the objective moral law is ignored
- conscience is not an infallible guide and can be ignorant/blinded
- how is conscience formed?
- practice and frequent self examination
- frequent reception of reconciliation
- when repeatedly ignored, becomes numb to wrongdoing and ceases to function as it should
- every christian is called by baptism to be a saint
- contrition - sorrow for our sins
- purpose of amendment - intention to avoid sin in the future
- spiritual direction