"For the Christian whose loves are rightly ordered, obedience to the Church is not something we pledge only if & when we can agree with what that Church proposes regarding doctrine & morals. It is a habitus, something learned over time & grown into gradually & at times painfully." Notice the language: Love is "rightly ordered" and not "ordered" by "rights"... Love actually has an order to it!
Check out this March 2012 post on Catholic Phoenix from Xavier Catholic Prep's Tony DiStefano:
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"Let the light of your face shine on us, O Lord." (Ps 4:6)
MORAL THEOLOGY
The Church’s moral reflection, always conducted in the light of Christ, the “Good Teacher”, has also developed in the specific form of the theological science called “moral theology”, a science which accepts and examines Divine Revelation while at the same time responding to the demands of human reason. Moral theology is a reflection concerned with “morality”, with the good and the evil of human acts and of the person who performs them; in this sense it is accessible to all people. But it is also “theology”, inasmuch as it acknowledges that the origin and end of moral action are found in the One who “alone is good” and who, by giving himself to man in Christ, offers him the happiness of divine life.
Veritatis Splendor 29
The person, including the body, is completely entrusted to himself, and it is in the unity of body and soul that the person is the subject of his own moral acts. The person, by the light of reason and the support of virtue, discovers in the body the anticipatory signs, the expression and the promise of the gift of self, in conformity with the wise plan of the Creator.
Veritatis Splendor 48
USEFUL LINKS
- Bible: New American Bible
- Bible: Revised Standard Version
- Bishop Olmsted on Human Freedom (1)
- Bishop Olmsted on Human Freedom (2)
- Bishop Olmsted on Human Freedom (3)
- Bishop Olmsted on Human Freedom (4)
- Catechism of the Catholic Church - ToC
- CCC with paragraph numbers
- Gaudium et Spes
- God in the Streets of New York City
- LifeSiteNews
- Peter Kreeft on "How to Read the Bible"
- The Bishop's Hour
- The Manhattan Declaration
- Vatican
- Veritatis Splendor - Full Text
- Veritatis Splendor - ToC
- Word on Fire
- Year of Faith (Phoenix)
- Year of Faith (Vatican)
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