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Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast ...
The contents of each volume of Moral Theology are listed broadly below: [3] Volume 1: Preface to the discourse (dissertatio prolegomena), on conscience, on laws, on the theological virtues, and on the first commandment; Volume 2: On commandments II, III, IV, V, VI, IX and VII, on justice and laws, and on restitution
3.2.1 Eastern Catholic. 3.2.2 Liturgical calendar. ... Catholic theology is the understanding of Catholic doctrine or ... moral, and anagogical (meaning mystical or ...
Curran was again removed from the faculty of the Catholic University of America in 1986 as a dissident against the Catholic Church's moral teaching. He maintains in his 1986 Faithful Dissent that Catholics who may dissent nevertheless accept the teaching authority of the pope, bishops and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith .
In Catholic moral theology, probabilism provides a way of answering the question about what to do when one does not know what to do. Probabilism proposes that one can follow an authoritative opinion regarding whether an act may be performed morally, even though the opposite opinion is more probable.
Joining the Jesuits in 1940, he was ordained a priest in 1953. [2] During his career, he served as a professor of Christian ethics at the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown . In an article in America magazine (July 17, 1993), McCormick wrote that the prohibition of any serious discussion of Humanae Vitae had led to "a debilitating malaise ...
Much more controversial has been the use that some theologians have made of the concept as grounds for a permissive attitude to moral norms, treating them merely as ideals. [1] [2] Some have invoked this understanding on matters such as the Catholic Church's ban on artificial contraception, [1] [2] or cohabitating couples. [7]
Pages in category "Catholic moral theology" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...