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- From: 15942@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Barr)
- Subject: Re: Catholic theological competency
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:07:48 GMT
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- Very good, Martha. But we should also keep in mind
- that the Church teaches that some acts are intrinsically
- immoral, and therefore are *always* wrong whetever
- their consequences. For example: the deliberate taking
- of an innocent human life, adultery, fornication,
- blasphemy,etc. That is, some rules are in fact absolute.
- As you say, some acts may be moral or not depending on
- circumstances, consequences, etc. For them, rules that
- cover every case are hard to formulate. As St. Augustine
- said "love and do what yoyu will". Or St, Paul:
- "to the pure all things are pure". But though some
- rules admit of exceptions, and Christian morality is more
- than an outward adherence to rules, it is wrong to
- go to the other extreme and say that all rules have
- exceptions, or that we are not bound by rules. Steve.
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