How can he say that? Why do they do that? What happened to their conscience? Conscience! Conscience! What is Conscience? What is so important about Conscience? What role does it really play in ...
This is the conscience of our age: the collective conscience of all who turn a blind eye. The situation is known by all but spoken by few; we see people capable of stomaching this reality, but we do ...
This question has been asked numerous times by too many patients to count. Inescapably, the doctor’s conscience will inform how he or she answers this question. The new administration intends to ...
"A person's moral sense of right and wrong, viewed as acting as a guide to one's behavior" -- the dictionary definition of "conscience." Whenever I make the common-sense argument that people need to ...
“Conscience is when God sends a text to your head.” That latest installment of the comic strip "The Family Circus" by Bil Keane gave me pause to ask, “Whatever happened to conscience today?” ...
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time “On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front ...
It has been my opinion for some time that conscience is an unreliable guide. The feminine conscience especially is too much governed by conventions. Recently circumstances have involved me in a course ...
A portrait of George Floyd is seen in New York City during a protest against racial inequality June 8, 2020. (CNS photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters) In the lead-up to the 2024 presidential election, ...
It’s always good to define our terms. In his Modern Catholic Dictionary, Servant of God John Hardon provided a good definition of “Examination of Conscience”: Reflection in God’s presence on one’s ...
On p. 570, C&T do discuss consensus directly and claim that S&E’s view about it is arbitrary and self-contradictory. I’ve argued above that it’s not arbitrary (in some sense). In what sense might it ...
Two years ago this month, as the COVID-19 virus spread uncontrollably through large swaths of the country, much of our society shut down. Church services were suspended. We all learned about ...