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Authoritative Sources: Moral Norms and Ecclesial Magisterium. Relationship…
Authoritative Sources: Moral Norms and Ecclesial Magisterium. Relationship with the Ecclesial Interpretive Authorities.
Working in and through the cultures of each age, this reflection has produced numerous works of great variety, each of which is grafted onto a common moral teaching under the auspices of the ecclesial Magisterium.
"Many moralists were content to conform the Church's moral teaching to "modernity", often retaining only scattered elements of this teaching, which they arranged as they saw fit or according to the reigning opinion."
But moral teaching is not "like civil laws that we can change whenever the majority desires to do so.
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"The Magisterium of the Church claims for itself the power to speak authoritatively, not only about the content of Christian revelation, but also about moral questions rooted in the natural law and thus belonging to the realm of reason."
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"acts are considered in the content of their particular circumstances and viewed as cases of conscience, from which the term casuistry - the study of cases - is derived."
Probabilism resulted in extremes of laxism "too favorable to freedom" and rigorism "one should always follow the opinion that favors the law"
"Because of its focus on obligations, moral theology has detached itself from everything that goes beyond legal imperatives especially the treatise on happiness and the destiny of the human person; the treatises on the Evangelical Law, on grace, and on the gifts of the Holy Spirit... Obedience to the law encroached upon charity and the virtues; the theme of friendship was lost; the social and ecclesial dimensions of the Christian life were neglected.
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