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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 ...
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 .
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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.
Bernard Häring, presents a dialogical approach to Catholic moral theology in his trilogies The Law of Christ and Free and Faithful in Christ. In this approach, morality follows the pattern of faith necessitating a dialogue. This approach to morality rests on the person's conscience that acknowledges God as basis of value.
The moral sense understands the scripture to contain some ethical teaching. The anagogical interpretation includes eschatology and applies to eternity and the consummation of the world. Catholic theology adds other rules of interpretation which include: the injunction that all other senses of sacred scripture are based on the literal meaning; [39]
He was a pioneering priest and theologian, who nurtured a compassionate approach to Catholic morality from the 1960s. In his academic and pastoral work, he tackled some of the most pressing issues facing the Church today, including human conscience, HIV/AIDS, divorce and second marriage, bioethics, sexual ethics, and pastoral theology in general.