Character CountsCatholic Answers Live interview with Michael Josephson, President of the Josephson Institute for Ethics (requires RealPlayer)
Online Books & Files
Fundamental Moral Conscience Attitudes(1950) In this book Dietrich von Hildebrand points out that 'moral values are the highest among all natural values. Positive moral values are the focus of the world; negative moral values, the greatest evil, worse than suffering, sickness or death.'
Idea of Moral Progressby Fr Richard John Neuhaus. Fr Neuhaus suggests that what we are witnessing today is not moral progress but dramatic moral regression. (from First Things, August/September 1999)
Ignorance - Invincible and Vincibleby James Akin. A discussion of ignorance - vincible and invincible - and its relationship to sins against faith. (from This Rock, July/August 1999).
Living Morally in the Marketplace by Msgr. Thomas Wells. A brief description of some ordinary men and the prayer organization they founded to help them living morally in the marketplace.
Quietly Running Tapsby Catherine Fournier. The Origin of Sin and the experimental method.
Retrieving ConscienceFr John Conley SJ considers the true definition of conscience. He says that 'most of the definitions tend to fall into emotivist, intuitionist or mystical accounts of conscience.' (from Faith & Reason, Fall 1994)
Sinby Paul McLachlan. What is sin? Mortal sin? Venial sin? Is sin social or personal? This article explains what sin is, with particular reference to Pope John Paul II's Apostolic Exhortation Reconciliatio et Paenetentia.
Sin and its EffectsWhy does God give commandments? What, eally, are the effects of sin? A response by Fr William Most
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