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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 Catholic Association was founded in 1823 by Daniel O'Connell. It was the latest in a series of similar associations formed over the previous ten years or so; none of these had prospered. Like the other associations, this new association was composed mainly of the middle-class elite: an annual subscription amounting to a guinea , an amount ...
Common good constitutionalism's grounding in a Catholic moral framework has led to charges that, in practice, it is inherently theocratic. [29] David Dyzenhaus has heavily criticized Vermeule's conception of Common Good Constitutionalism, hailing it an "authoritarian" idea seeking to instill "Christian theocratic rule". [30]
During the summer of 1940, Fr. James W. O'Brien, then professor of moral theology, was reassigned by his own bishop to a become rector of the archdiocesan seminary in Cincinnati and Connell was asked to fill O'Brien's teaching post, which he did from autumn of 1940 until his retirement in 1958.
Writing on L'Osservatore Romano about the 1986 letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the pastoral care of homosexual persons, Bartholomew Kiely stated: "The 'law of gradualness' implies that when there exists a genuine (unfeigned) weakness in following a moral norm, the person is obliged to 'endeavour to place [or ...
Sir John Robert O'Connell MRIA, FSA (1868 – 28 December 1943) was an Irish solicitor, business man, and, after the death of his wife, a Roman Catholic priest. O'Connell was born in 1868 the only son of Thomas Francis O'Connell, a solicitor of Dublin, Ireland. He is education was a Master of Arts and Doctor of Laws.
Richard A. McCormick SJ (1922 – February 12, 2000) was a leading liberal Catholic moral theologian who reshaped Catholic thought in the United States.He wrote many journal articles on Catholic social teachings and moral theory.
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