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1 Bles | 26). Truth enlightens man's intelligence and shapes
2 Int, 1 | for a lie" (Rom 1:25). Man's capacity to know the truth
3 Int, 1 | eloquently proved by man's tireless search for knowledge
4 Int, 2 | 4:6). ~The light of God's face shines in all its beauty
5 Int, 2 | the "reflection of God's glory" (Heb 1:3), "full
6 Int, 2 | answer to every one of man's questions, his religious
7 Int, 2 | the Father and the Father's love".1 ~Jesus Christ, the "
8 Int, 2 | of history and to mankind's efforts to discover the
9 Int, 3 | 3. The Church's Pastors, in communion with
10 Int, 4 | of human life. In Christ's name and with his authority
11 Int, 4 | the whole of the Church's moral teaching, with the
12 Int, 4 | with regard to the Church's moral teachings. It is no
13 Int, 4 | rejected; certain of the Church's moral teachings are found
14 Int, 5 | questions regarding the Church's moral teaching, taking the
15 1, 6 | chapter of Saint Matthew's Gospel, can serve as a useful
16 1, 7 | young man, whom Matthew's Gospel does not name, we
17 1, 7 | the origin and goal of man's life. Precisely in this
18 1, 8 | fully revealing the Father's will, teaches the truth
19 1, 8 | Christ sheds light on man's condition and his integral
20 1, 8 | the heart of the Gospel's moral teaching and grasp
21 1, 9 | be found by turning one's mind and heart to the "One"
22 1, 9 | shows that the young man's question is really a religious
23 1, 9 | being loved "with all one's heart, and with all one'
24 1, 9 | heart, and with all one's soul, and with all one's
25 1, 9 | s soul, and with all one's mind" (Mt 22:37). He is
26 1, 9 | He is the source of man's happiness. Jesus brings
27 1, 10 | instructed by the Teacher's words, believes that man,
28 1, 10 | live "for the praise of God's glory" (cf. Eph 1:12), striving
29 1, 10 | the One who despite man's sin remains the "model"
30 1, 10 | in order to restore man's original and peaceful harmony
31 1, 10 | the gratuitousness of God's love, is called to reflect
32 1, 11 | lively perception of God's absolute holiness: "Holy,
33 1, 12 | life and obedience to God's commandments: God's commandments
34 1, 12 | God's commandments: God's commandments show man the
35 1, 12 | children or lands, for my name's sake, will receive a hundredfold
36 1, 13 | that he acknowledges God's holiness. After directing
37 1, 13 | directing the young man's gaze towards God, Jesus
38 1, 13 | Decalogue regarding one's neighbour: "Jesus said: '
39 1, 13 | a comparison of Matthew's text with the parallel passages
40 1, 13 | wishes to draw the young man's attention to the "centrality"
41 1, 13 | Commandments are part of God's Revelation. At the same
42 1, 13 | time, they teach us man's true humanity. They shed
43 1, 13 | truthfulness and people's good name. ~The commandments
44 1, 13 | one begins to lift up one's head towards freedom. But
45 1, 15 | Covenants. Commenting on Paul's statement that "Christ is
46 1, 15 | truth".25 ~Jesus brings God's commandments to fulfilment,
47 1, 15 | promotes the life of one's neighbour. The precept prohibiting
48 1, 16 | demands contained in God's Law. And yet, even though
49 1, 16 | Conscious of the young man's yearning for something greater,
50 1, 16 | by Jesus to the young man's question: "What good must
51 1, 17 | certain that the young man's commitment to respect all
52 1, 17 | to be perfect") and God's gift of grace ("Come, follow
53 1, 17 | particular dynamic of freedom's growth towards maturity,
54 1, 17 | law. Human freedom and God's law are not in opposition;
55 1, 17 | has nothing to do with man's "liberation" from precepts.
56 1, 18 | the flesh" experience God's law as a burden, and indeed
57 1, 18 | serve others, find in God's Law the fundamental and
58 1, 19 | once one has given up one's own wealth and very self.
59 1, 19 | the disciples after Christ's Resurrection, when the Holy
60 1, 20 | ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you
61 1, 21 | and to manifest the Spirit's fruits in their lives (cf.
62 1, 21 | cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes" (1
63 1, 22 | Master refers them to God's power: "With men this is
64 1, 22 | same chapter of Matthew's Gospel (19:3-10), Jesus,
65 1, 22 | than the Law of Moses: God's original plan for mankind,
66 1, 22 | opened up to man by God's grace. "He said to them: '
67 1, 22 | love" (Jn 15:9). Christ's gift is his Spirit, whose
68 1, 22 | Gal 5:22) is charity: "God's love has been poured into
69 1, 23 | possible to carry out God's commandments. Indeed, it
70 1, 23 | they demand is beyond man's abilities. They are possible
71 1, 24 | connection between the Lord's grace and human freedom,
72 1, 24 | as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in
73 1, 24 | produce its effects in one's life. Indeed, the New Law
74 1, 25 | Teacher who expounds God's commandments, who invites
75 1, 25 | age" (Mt 28:20). Christ's relevance for people of
76 1, 26 | Holy Spirit, of the Lord's precepts as they are to
77 1, 26 | and Jas). From the Church's beginnings, the Apostles,
78 1, 26 | Apostolic times the Church's Pastors have unambiguously
79 1, 27 | faithful expression of God's wisdom and will. ~Within
80 1, 27 | interpretation of the Lord's law develops, with the help
81 1, 27 | Tradition of the Church's teaching and life, as witnessed
82 1, 27 | of the Saints, the Church's Liturgy and the teaching
83 1, 27 | charged with the Church's living Magisterium, whose
84 1, 27 | continuity with the Church's tradition, senses more urgently
85 2, 28 | fruitful source of the Church's moral doctrine; as the Second
86 2, 29 | 29. The Church's moral reflection, always
87 2, 29 | found support in the Council's encouragement has already
88 2, 29 | 3). Certainly the Church's Magisterium does not intend
89 2, 30 | those elements of the Church's moral teaching which today
90 2, 30 | the truth contained in God's law? what is the role of
91 2, 30 | role of conscience in man's moral development? how do
92 2, 30 | puts forward the Master's reply, a reply that possesses
93 2, 30 | and power that the Church's Magisterium continues to
94 2, 31 | freedom. As the Council's Declaration on Religious
95 2, 32 | has a duty to follow one's conscience is unduly added
96 2, 32 | the affirmation that one's moral judgment is true merely
97 2, 32 | reality as an act of a person's intelligence, the function
98 2, 35 | understand and accept God's commands. And he possesses
99 2, 35 | in the commandments. ~God's law does not reduce, much
100 2, 36 | Mt 15:3-6) and the Church's constant teaching, of the
101 2, 37 | compromising the Church's heritage of moral teaching
102 2, 38 | depth of the sharing in God's dominion to which man has
103 2, 38 | they indicate that man's dominion extends in a certain
104 2, 38 | obedience to the Creator's command: "Fill the earth
105 2, 38 | fact to which the Council's Constitution Gaudium et
106 2, 40 | would contradict the Church's teaching on the truth about
107 2, 41 | 41. Man's genuine moral autonomy in
108 2, 41 | of the moral law, of God's command: "The Lord God gave
109 2, 41 | Human freedom and God's law meet and are called
110 2, 41 | intersect, in the sense of man's free obedience to God and
111 2, 41 | obedience to God and of God's completely gratuitous benevolence
112 2, 41 | to mean a denial of man's self-determination or the
113 2, 41 | participated theonomy, since man's free obedience to God's
114 2, 41 | s free obedience to God's law effectively implies
115 2, 41 | will participate in God's wisdom and providence. By
116 2, 42 | 42. Patterned on God's freedom, man's freedom is
117 2, 42 | Patterned on God's freedom, man's freedom is not negated by
118 2, 42 | of the splendour of God's countenance. Thus Saint
119 2, 43 | the gentle guidance of God's providence increasingly
120 2, 43 | classic teaching on God's eternal law. Saint Augustine
121 2, 43 | their due end".80 And God's wisdom is providence, a
122 2, 43 | natural knowledge of God's eternal law, is consequently
123 2, 43 | man himself, through man's reasonable and responsible
124 2, 43 | human expression of God's eternal law. Saint Thomas
125 2, 44 | accept and to live out God's law as a particular gift
126 2, 44 | also as a pledge of God's blessing. Thus Moses could
127 2, 44 | called to show towards God's law, together with an exhortation
128 2, 45 | authentically interpreting God's law in the light of the
129 2, 45 | the "fulfilment" of God's law in Jesus Christ and
130 2, 45 | his Son" (Rom 8:29). God's plan poses no threat to
131 2, 45 | plan poses no threat to man's genuine freedom; on the
132 2, 45 | contrary, the acceptance of God's plan is the only way to
133 2, 46 | untrammelled advancement of man's power, or of his freedom,
134 2, 47 | documents of the Church's Magisterium, particularly
135 2, 47 | adequate consideration both man's character as a rational
136 2, 48 | It contradicts the Church's teachings on the unity of
137 2, 50 | understood: it refers to man's proper and primordial nature,
138 2, 50 | inclination to preserve one's own physical life. Human
139 2, 50 | imperative to give up one's own life (cf. Jn 15:13)
140 2, 51 | root each of the person's free acts, which are meant
141 2, 51 | communion of persons and, by God's grace, practise charity, "
142 2, 52 | his due and to honour one's parents as they deserve.
143 2, 53 | circumstances by the Church's Magisterium, whose decision
144 2, 53(100)| development of the Church's moral doctrine is similar
145 2 | Man's sanctuary ~
146 2, 54 | relationship between man's freedom and God's law is
147 2, 54 | between man's freedom and God's law is most deeply lived
148 2, 54 | intimately bound up with one's understanding of the moral
149 2, 54 | the teaching of the Church's tradition and her Magisterium. ~
150 2, 55 | exerted by the individual's social and cultural environment.
151 2, 55 | position adopted by the Church's Magisterium in many moral
152 2, 55 | questions; for them, the Church's interventions are the cause
153 2, 56 | to human freedom and God's law. Only the clarification
154 2, 58 | conscience is like God's herald and messenger; it
155 2, 58 | them as coming from God's authority, like a herald
156 2, 58 | conscience bears witness to man's own rectitude or iniquity
157 2, 58 | penetrate the depths of man's soul, calling him fortiter
158 2, 59 | that reflection of God's creative wisdom which, like
159 2, 59 | has established the law's application in concrete
160 2, 61 | need, with the help of God's grace, to ask forgiveness,
161 2, 61 | guided by that truth in one's actions. ~
162 2, 62 | cunning and tamper with God's word", but "openly state
163 2, 62 | perfect" (Rom 12:2). ~Paul's admonition urges us to be
164 2, 64 | 12:2), knowledge of God's law in general is certainly
165 2, 65 | oneself and a setting of one's own life for or against
166 2, 65 | choices which "shape" a person's entire moral life, and which
167 2, 65 | other words, concerning man's relationship with himself,
168 2, 66 | unity and profundity. Israel's fundamental decision, then,
169 2, 66 | which one sells all one's possessions, are eloquent
170 2, 66 | for my sake and the Gospel's will save it" (Mk 8:35). ~
171 2, 67 | towards his end, following God's call. But this capacity
172 2, 67 | conforms himself to God's will, wisdom and law. It
173 2, 67 | finality immanent in man's acting and in each of his
174 2, 67 | not deduced only from one's intention, orientation or
175 2, 68 | morally good, persevere in God's grace and attain salvation,
176 2, 68 | gravely contrary to God's commandments as set forth
177 2, 69 | that the opposition to God's law which causes the loss
178 2, 70 | accordance with the Church's tradition. And the 1983
179 2, 70 | law, a rejection of God's love for humanity and the
180 2, 70 | which influence the sinner's subjective imputability.
181 2, 70 | act of disobedience to God's commandments in a grave
182 2, 71 | relationship between man's freedom and God's law, which
183 2, 71 | between man's freedom and God's law, which has its intimate
184 2, 72 | the relationship of man's freedom with the authentic
185 2, 72 | law is known both by man's natural reason (hence it
186 2, 72 | and perfect way — by God's supernatural Revelation (
187 2, 72 | are in conformity with man's true good and thus express
188 2, 72 | question in the young man's conversation with Jesus: "
189 2, 72 | value of an act and man's final end. Jesus, in his
190 2, 72 | confirms the young man's conviction: the performance
191 2, 72 | simply because the subject's intention is good.122 Activity
192 2, 73 | Christian, thanks to God's Revelation and to faith,
193 2, 73(123)| died for all and since man's ultimate calling comes from
194 2, 73 | But this ordering to one's ultimate end is not something
195 2, 73 | dependent solely upon one's intention. It presupposes
196 2, 74 | moral assessment of man's free acts depend? What is
197 2, 74 | on the part of the Church's Magisterium. ~Certain ethical
198 2, 74 | any reference to the man's true ultimate end. They
199 2, 75 | the basis of the subject's intention in reference to
200 2, 76 | not faithful to the Church's teaching, when they believe
201 2, 76 | Love of God and of one's neighbour cannot be separated
202 2, 77 | defined as pre-moral — of one's own acts: an exhaustive
203 2, 80 | acts which, in the Church's moral tradition, have been
204 2, 80(131)| clearly endangers the Church's entire doctrinal heritage?"~
205 3, 84 | the relationship of man's freedom to God's law; it
206 3, 84 | of man's freedom to God's law; it is ultimately the
207 3, 84 | Christian faith and the Church's teaching, "only the freedom
208 3, 84 | comparison between the Church's teaching and today's social
209 3, 84 | Church's teaching and today's social and cultural situation
210 3, 84 | requirements of the Church's mission, for the salvation
211 3, 84 | salvation of the world. Pilate's question: "What is truth"
212 3, 85 | her own the Apostle Paul's awareness of the mission
213 3, 86 | weakness which marks man's freedom. That freedom is
214 3, 86 | even more, through Christ's Revelation, to become his
215 3, 87 | in service to God and one's brethren. Communion with
216 3, 88 | of the Church amid today's growing secularism, wherein
217 3, 88 | a decision involving one's whole existence. It is an
218 3, 89 | acceptance and observance of God's commandments. As Saint John
219 3, 89 | her" (Eph 5:25). Christ's witness is the source, model
220 3 | inviolable holiness of God's law ~
221 3, 91 | not right to do what God's law qualifies as evil in
222 3, 91 | concrete act contrary to God's love and the witness of
223 3, 91 | for the sake of saving one's own life. ~
224 3, 92 | both to the holiness of God's law and to the inviolability
225 3, 92 | dignity of man, created in God's image and likeness. This
226 3, 92 | it is a violation of man's "humanity", in the one perpetrating
227 3, 92 | the exaltation of a person's perfect "humanity" and of
228 3, 93 | Church. Fidelity to God's holy law, witnessed to by
229 3, 93 | general, all the Church's Saints, light up every period
230 3, 94 | mysterious workings of God's Spirit are not absent. The
231 3, 94 | prepared to give up one's life. In an individual's
232 3, 94 | s life. In an individual's words and above all in the
233 3, 95 | 95. The Church's teaching, and in particular
234 3, 95 | contrast with the Church's motherhood. The Church,
235 3, 95 | compassion. But the Church's motherhood can never in
236 3, 95 | as an outpouring of God's eternal Wisdom, which we
237 3, 96 | 96. The Church's firmness in defending the
238 3, 96 | purpose is to serve man's true freedom. Because there
239 3, 96 | essential demands of man's personal dignity must be
240 3, 99 | essential bond between God's wisdom and will — is extremely
241 3, 99 | clearly seen in the Church's social teaching — which "
242 3, 100 | to preserve our neighbour's rights and to render what
243 3 | Grace and obedience to God's law ~
244 3, 102 | he can be obedient to God's holy commandment and consistent
245 3, 102 | Sir 15:19-20). Keeping God's law in particular situations
246 3, 102 | constant teaching of the Church's tradition, and was expressed
247 3, 103 | strength always to keep God's holy law, even amid the
248 3, 103 | in the mystery of Christ's Redemption do we discover
249 3, 103 | conclude... that the Church's teaching is essentially
250 3, 103 | stake: the reality of Christ's redemption. Christ has redeemed
251 3, 103 | an imperfection of Christ's redemptive act, but to man'
252 3, 103 | redemptive act, but to man's will not to avail himself
253 3, 103 | flows from that act. God's command is of course proportioned
254 3, 103 | course proportioned to man's capabilities; but to the
255 3, 104 | allowance is made both for God's mercy towards the sinner
256 3, 104 | unworthiness before God's infinite holiness: "God,
257 3, 105 | eliminate awareness of one's own limits and of one's
258 3, 105 | s own limits and of one's own sin. In our own day
259 3, 105 | adapt the moral norm to one's own capacities and personal
260 3, 106 | very reason for the Church's existence: "Go into all
261 3, 106 | values themselves. Today's widespread tendencies towards
262 3, 107 | liberating force of God's love, and the value of unconditional
263 3, 107 | the demands of the Lord's law, even in the most difficult
264 3, 107 | life in accordance with God's commandments and the Beatitudes
265 3, 107 | Christian partakes of Christ's self-giving love and is
266 3, 107 | moral life the Christian's royal service is also made
267 3, 108 | completes and perfects the Lord's Church everywhere and in
268 3, 109 | truth beckons reason — God's gift fashioned for the assimilation
269 3, 109 | in fulfilling the Apostle's command (cf. 1 Pet 3:15)
270 3, 110 | 4:15) and on the Church's life of holiness, in which
271 3, 110 | its perfection. The Church's Magisterium intervenes not
272 3, 110 | charity of Christ, the Church's Magisterium also teaches
273 3, 110 | their relation with man's ultimate end.174 Moral theologians
274 3, 110 | to set forth the Church's teaching and to give, in
275 3, 110 | external, to the Magisterium's teaching in the areas of
276 3, 111 | not only for the Church's life and mission, but also
277 3, 111 | today. Because the Church's morality necessarily involves
278 3, 112 | in the context of today's prevalently scientific and
279 3, 112 | traces of a fall from man's original situation — in
280 3, 112 | it proclaims to them God's mercy, which is constantly
281 3, 112 | fully to know and keep God's law and from the presumption
282 3, 113 | charge of teaching the Church's doctrine, thus have a grave
283 3, 113 | confident recourse to God's grace. ~While exchanges
284 3, 113 | the teaching of the Church's Pastors cannot be seen as
285 3, 113 | diversity of the Spirit's gifts. When this happens,
286 3, 113 | this happens, the Church's Pastors have the duty to
287 3, 114 | incumbent upon the Church's Pastors: "Among the principal
288 3, 114 | effective means for obeying God's holy law, and when with
289 3, 115 | Revelation and of the Church's constant teaching, especially
290 3, 115 | commandment are based upon God's infinitely merciful love (
291 3, 117 | 1 Cor 1:17). The Church's answer to man's question
292 3, 117 | The Church's answer to man's question contains the wisdom
293 3, 117 | and Pastors, the Church's reply contains the voice
294 3, 117 | there resounds, in people's inmost being, the voice
295 Conc, 118 | as the revelation of God's mercy (cf. Jn 3:16-18).
296 Conc, 119 | is the task of the Church's Magisterium to see that
297 Conc, 120 | the universality of God's love, which opens her heart
298 Conc, 120 | to God and accepting God's gift within herself. Until
299 Conc, 120 | loves him with a Mother's love. Precisely for this
300 Conc, 120 | truth and shares the Church's burden in recalling always
301 Conc, 120 | in Rome, at Saint Peter's, on 6 August, Feast of the