
Evil Exists Because We Use Our Free Will to Choose It
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: God gave us free will and knows it can be used to do bad things.
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: God gave us free will and knows it can be used to do bad things.
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: “I’m disgusted by the leading political candidates for president. Do I have a moral obligation to vote in November?”
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: Living in a sinful world requires all of us to cooperate in evildoing sometimes, and most of us to do it frequently.
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: What does Humanae Vitae mean when it talks about the “licitness of therapeutic means?”
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: Is it a mortal sin when I don’t help homeless people I see on the street?
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: Catholics are prohibited from becoming Masons, but are stipends from Masonic lodges acceptable?
COMMENTARY: All judgments should be based upon a sober assessment of what is most likely to cause the least unwanted harms while achieving the greatest wanted social benefits. Whatever safety measures are needed to protect people should be enforced.
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: Do these individuals have immortal souls? Yes, they do. And that truth only reinforces the Church’s moral teaching.
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: The Catholic Church has taught since the apostolic period that intentional self-killing — suicide — is wrong, not only when done for trivial reasons, but for any reason.
DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS: If a Catholic politician supports transgender ideology, should he or she be denied Holy Communion?
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