11. Conscience: Modern understandings of Conscience
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- 11. Modern understandings of Conscience
- The Roman Catholic Church
- At its Second Vatican Council (1962-5)
- Discussed issue of conscience and agreed that there was a law inside each person which speaks to individual heart
- Emphasis given here was on an understanding of conscience as a personal and inner sense of right and wrong, but which worked like any law and which held person to obedience
- On final level
- Conscience is infallible and must be followed, but on the second level people can disagree in their conscientious judgements and wrong judgmeents can be made
- The Roman Catholic Church
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