Lex Christianorum

T HE NOTION OF SYNDERESIS AS A SORT OF antechamber of conscience, the scintilla conscientiae or spark of conscience, has an interesting hist...

T HE POPE IN HIS ENCYCLICAL has just told us that the judgment of conscience is the proximate norm of personal morality (VS, 60), which all ...

C ONSCIENCE IS NOT ONLY A WITNESS of God, a dialogue between man and God, but it also has the nature of judgment : a moral, practical, imper...

C ONSCIENCE AND NATURAL LAW ARE INTIMATELY bound, and for this reason the same part of the epistle of St. Paul to the Romans that deals with...

I T WOULD SEEM THAT THE "law of the heart," the heart's yearning for freedom, and what Pope John Paul II calls the "'...

I N EVERY HUMAN SCIENCE THERE must be some first principles, else we could never know anything. Knowledge builds upon knowledge, not upon n...

T HE EIGHTH REQUIREMENT OF PRACTICAL reasonableness is the result of the fact that man is a social animal. The eight requirement, which wil...

C ONSCIENCE IS ADDRESSED by Cardinal Mercier as the last topic of his discussion on general ethics. He adopts the classical scholastic dist...

SAINT JEROME IS NOT TO BE NEGLECTED in considering the teachings of the natural law as found in the Church Fathers. St. Jerome, or Eusebi...