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  1 Bles      |         Blessing!~The splendour of truth shines forth in all the
  2 Bles      |    likeness of God (cf. Gen 1:26). Truth enlightens man's intelligence
  3  Int,    1|          holy by "obedience to the truth" (1 Pet 1:22). ~This obedience
  4  Int,    1|         Thes 1:9), exchanging "the truth about God for a lie" (Rom
  5  Int,    1|         Man's capacity to know the truth is also darkened, and his
  6  Int,    1|        illusory freedom apart from truth itself. ~But no darkness
  7  Int,    1|            a yearning for absolute truth and a thirst to attain full
  8  Int,    2|            to the splendour of the truth which shines forth deep
  9  Int,    2|           1:3), "full of grace and truth" (Jn 1:14). Christ is "the
 10  Int,    2|        Christ is "the way, and the truth, and the life" (Jn 14:6).
 11  Int,    2|        answer which comes from the truth about Jesus Christ and his
 12  Int,    3|          For whatever goodness and truth is found in them is considered
 13  Int,    4|      assistance from the Spirit of truth they have contributed to
 14  Int,    4|       constitutive relationship to truth. Thus the traditional doctrine
 15    1,    8|         Father's will, teaches the truth about moral action. At the
 16    1,    8|           step by step to the full truth. ~
 17    1,   12|          it is even now a light of truth, a source of meaning for
 18    1,   15|          an Old Testament, but all truth is in the New Testament,
 19    1,   15|      Mosaic Law is an image of the truth".25 ~Jesus brings God's
 20    1,   19|           Spirit leads them to all truth (cf. Jn 16:13). ~It is Jesus
 21    1,   19|             he is the way, and the truth, and the life (cf. Jn 14:
 22    1,   23|           through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ" (
 23    1,   25|        assistance of the Spirit of truth: "He who hears you hears
 24    1,   27|            Fathers and Doctors the truth of the Word made flesh,
 25    1,   27|          pillar and bulwark of the truth" ( 1 Tim 3:15), including
 26    1,   27|           Tim 3:15), including the truth regarding moral action.
 27    1,   27|         man in his journey towards truth and freedom. ~
 28    2,   28|           the source of all saving truth and moral teaching".43 The
 29    2,   28|         who leads her into all the truth (cf. Jn 16:13), the Church
 30    2,   29|         incompatible with revealed truth.49 ~
 31    2,   30|            its relationship to the truth contained in God's law?
 32    2,   30|             in accordance with the truth about the good, the specific
 33    2,   30|         away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. As
 34    2      |                  You will know the truth, and the truth will make
 35    2      |            know the truth, and the truth will make you free" (Jn
 36    2,   31|            its journey towards the truth is increasingly perceived
 37    2,   31|           however diverge from the truth about man as a creature
 38    2,   32|          the inescapable claims of truth disappear, yielding their
 39    2,   32| immediately evident, the crisis of truth is not unconnected with
 40    2,   32|            the idea of a universal truth about the good, knowable
 41    2,   32|   individual is faced with his own truth, different from the truth
 42    2,   32|          truth, different from the truth of others. Taken to its
 43    2,   34|           journey in search of the truth, there exists a prior moral
 44    2,   34|           one at that, to seek the truth and to adhere to it once
 45    2,   34|           dependence of freedom on truth. ~If we wish to undertake
 46    2,   34|         dependence of freedom upon truth, a dependence which has
 47    2,   34|         Christ: "You will know the truth, and the truth will set
 48    2,   34|            know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (Jn 8:
 49    2,   35|         would enjoy a primacy over truth, to the point that truth
 50    2,   35|           truth, to the point that truth itself would be considered
 51    2,   40|         hand, reason draws its own truth and authority from the eternal
 52    2,   40|           Church's teaching on the truth about man.73 It would be
 53    2,   41|             freedom submits to the truth of creation. Consequently
 54    2,   42|     obedience does it abide in the truth and conform to human dignity.
 55    2,   43|           recognize the unchanging truth".78 ~The Council refers
 56    2,   48|         does not correspond to the truth about man and his freedom.
 57    2,   50|   neighbour or as a witness to the truth. Only in reference to the
 58    2,   51|         that light which is called truth? From thence every just
 59    2,   51|         Precisely because of this "truth" the natural law involves
 60    2,   51|        cultivate social life, seek truth, practise good and contemplate
 61    2,   52|         personally assimilates the truth contained in the law. He
 62    2,   52|          law. He appropriates this truth of his being and makes it
 63    2,   53|       accordance with the profound truth of his being. To call into
 64    2,   53|   authentically interpreting their truth. This truth of the moral
 65    2,   53|     interpreting their truth. This truth of the moral law — like
 66    2,   53|          the norms expressing that truth remain valid in their substance,
 67    2      |                 II. Conscience and truth ~
 68    2,   56|          of double status of moral truth. Beyond the doctrinal and
 69    2,   56|         the relationship, based on truth, between freedom and law
 70    2,   60|          judgments derive from the truth about moral good and evil,
 71    2,   60|            to and to express. This truth is indicated by the "divine
 72    2,   61|                            61. The truth about moral good, as that
 73    2,   61|          about moral good, as that truth is declared in the law of
 74    2,   61|           witness to the universal truth of the good, as well as
 75    2,   61|           link between freedom and truth is made manifest. Precisely
 76    2,   61|        judgment" which reflect the truth about the good, and not
 77    2,   61|          conscience from objective truth, in favour of an alleged
 78    2,   61|            an insistent search for truth and by allowing oneself
 79    2,   61|       oneself to be guided by that truth in one's actions. ~
 80    2,   62|            1:5), man must seek the truth and must make judgments
 81    2,   62|          accordance with that same truth. As the Apostle Paul says,
 82    2,   62|              but "openly state the truth" (cf. 2 Cor 4:2). On the
 83    2,   62|          speak in the name of that truth about the good which the
 84    2,   63|       event, it is always from the truth that the dignity of conscience
 85    2,   63|          question of the objective truth received by man; in the
 86    2,   63|          good with the "objective" truth rationally proposed to man
 87    2,   63|        disorder in relation to the truth about the good. Furthermore,
 88    2,   64|           of Christ the teacher of truth. Her charge is to announce
 89    2,   64|           teach authentically that truth which is Christ, and at
 90    2,   64|           never freedom "from" the truth but always and only freedom "
 91    2,   64|          and only freedom "in" the truth, but also because the Magisterium
 92    2,   64|          it not to swerve from the truth about the good of man, but
 93    2,   64|           questions, to attain the truth with certainty and to abide
 94    2,   65|           Good, for or against the Truth, and ultimately for or against
 95    2,   66|           time it witnesses to the truth and to the obligation of
 96    2,   72|       human act to the good in its truth and the voluntary pursuit
 97    2,   72|          it is acknowledged in its truth by reason. If the object
 98    2,   75|         objective reference to the truth about the good, and from
 99    2,   79|         considered in his integral truth, and therefore in his natural
100    2,   82|           human fraternity and the truth about the good, and would
101    2,   83|    question of man himself, of his truth and of the moral consequences
102    2,   83|     consequences flowing from that truth. By acknowledging and teaching
103    2,   83|           faithful to the integral truth about man; she thus respects
104    2,   83|       above, which contradict this truth. ~Dear Brothers in the Episcopate,
105    2,   83|         inviting splendour of that truth which is Jesus Christ himself.
106    2,   83|        himself. In him, who is the Truth (cf. Jn 14:6), man can understand
107    2,   83|         Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, of freedom and of love:
108    3,   84|   relationship between freedom and truth. ~According to Christian
109    3,   84|       freedom which submits to the Truth leads the human person to
110    3,   84|         the person is to be in the Truth and to do the Truth".136 ~
111    3,   84|            the Truth and to do the Truth".136 ~A comparison between
112    3,   84|        This essential bond between Truth, the Good and Freedom has
113    3,   84|        Pilate's question: "What is truth" reflects the distressing
114    3,   84|         convinced that only in the truth can he find salvation. The
115    3,   84|            The saving power of the truth is contested, and freedom
116    3,   85|   decisions in accordance with the truth, following the exhortation
117    3,   86|      Freedom then is rooted in the truth about man, and it is ultimately
118    3,   86|            leads him to reject the Truth and the Good in order to
119    3,   87|       frank and open acceptance of truth is the condition for authentic
120    3,   87|        freedom: "You will know the truth, and the truth will set
121    3,   87|            know the truth, and the truth will set you free" (Jn 8:
122    3,   87|        free" (Jn 8:32).139 This is truth which sets one free in the
123    3,   87|             to bear witness to the truth" (Jn 18:37). The true worshippers
124    3,   87|         worship him "in spirit and truth" (Jn 4:23): in this worship
125    3,   87|            and a relationship with truth are revealed in Jesus Christ
126    3,   87|        make you a servant, just as truth has made you free... you
127    3,   87|           bond between freedom and truth, just as his Resurrection
128    3,   87|          of a freedom lived out in truth. ~
129    3,   88|           freedom in opposition to truth, and indeed to separate
130    3,   88|            his commandments, and a truth to be lived out. A word,
131    3,   88|           Christ, the Way, and the Truth, and the Life (cf. Jn 14:
132    3,   89|          not live according to the truth... And by this we may be
133    3,   89|    commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever
134    3,   91|            to her obedience to the truth and to the absoluteness
135    3,   91|     without any compromise, to the truth about the good and to the
136    3,   91|        gave his life in witness to truth and justice",142 and thus
137    3,   91|         and Pilate, confirming the truth of his message at the cost
138    3,   91|      witness to and defended moral truth even to the point of enduring
139    3,   91|           witness and declared the truth of their judgment, according
140    3,   93|        that the splendour of moral truth may be undimmed in the behaviour
141    3,   93|          by the splendour of moral truth, the martyrs and, in general,
142    3,   93|            of the witness to moral truth, and one to which relatively
143    3,   94|           single testimony to that truth which, already present in
144    3,   95|        Bride of Christ, who is the Truth in person. "As Teacher,
145    3,   95|          norm. In obedience to the truth which is Christ, whose image
146    3,   95|      concealing or weakening moral truth, but rather from proposing
147    3,   95|     forceful presentation of moral truth can never be separated from
148    3,   95|     renounce the "the principle of truth and consistency, whereby
149    3,   96|            or in opposition to the truth, the categorical — unyielding
150    3,   99|         and the moral good meet in truth: the truth of God, the Creator
151    3,   99|            good meet in truth: the truth of God, the Creator and
152    3,   99|      Creator and Redeemer, and the truth of man, created and redeemed
153    3,   99|    redeemed by him. Only upon this truth is it possible to construct
154    3,   99|          arises out of a denial of truth in the objective sense.
155    3,   99|           there is no transcendent truth, in obedience to which man
156    3,   99|           acknowledge transcendent truth, then the force of power
157    3,   99|     inseparable connection between truth and freedom — which expresses
158    3,  101|        make the acknowledgement of truth impossible. Indeed, "if
159    3,  101|            if there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political
160    3,  101|            morality — founded upon truth and open in truth to authentic
161    3,  101|     founded upon truth and open in truth to authentic freedom — renders
162    3,  102|        harmony between freedom and truth occasionally demands uncommon
163    3,  103|            of realizing the entire truth of our being; he has set
164    3,  104|      weakness the criterion of the truth about the good, so that
165    3,  107|     perceive at once the beauty of truth, the liberating force of
166    3,  107|           called by the service of truth, charity and justice. ~
167    3,  109|          presence of the Spirit of truth in the Church (cf. Jn 14:
168    3,  109|      because it reveals to man the truth of his destiny and the way
169    3,  109|         way to attain it. Revealed truth, to be sure, surpasses our
170    3,  109|              Nonetheless, revealed truth beckons reason — God's gift
171    3,  109|            for the assimilation of truth — to enter into its light
172    3,  109|      responds to the invitation of truth as it seeks to understand
173    3,  110|          life which "professes the truth in love" (cf. Eph 4:15)
174    3,  110|       which there shines forth the truth about the good brought to
175    3,  110|            the correctness and the truth of the moral norms which
176    3,  112|         argument for rejecting the truth of the moral norms taught
177    3,  112|      Gospel which reveals the full truth about man and his moral
178    3,  112|         the moral law a liberating truth, a grace-filled source of
179    3,  114|            Come, follow me! ". The truth of this teaching was sealed
180    3,  115|      dignity of the person and the truth of his acts, so as to be
181    3,  117|          answer in the fullness of truth, in all situations, in the
182    3,  117|           of Christ Crucified, the Truth which gives of itself. ~
183    3,  117|           Christ, the voice of the truth about good and evil. In
184 Conc,  120|       reason she is on the side of truth and shares the Church's