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Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast ...
The Enchiridion (full title: Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum; "A handbook of symbols, definitions and declarations on matters of faith and morals"), usually translated as The Sources of Catholic Dogma, is a compendium of texts on Catholic theology and morality. This compendium was first published in ...
An encyclical is a letter issued by the pope that is usually addressed to Catholic bishops or laity in a particular area or of the whole world. [1] [2] Encyclicals may condemn errors, point out threats to faith and morals, exhort faithful practices or provide remedies for present and future dangers to the church. The authority of the encyclical ...
Richard A. McCormick SJ (1922 – February 12, 2000) was a leading liberal Catholic moral theologian who reshaped Catholic thought in the United States.He wrote many journal articles on Catholic social teachings and moral theory.
Catholic Ethicists on HIV/AIDS Prevention (2000) Moral Wisdom: Lessons and Texts from the Catholic Tradition (2004 - second edition 2009) Paul and Virtue Ethics (co-authored with Daniel Harrington, 2010) Keenan, James F. & Mark McGreevy, eds. (2019). Street homelessness and Catholic theological ethics. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books.
The Ten Commandments are series of religious and moral imperatives that are recognized as a moral foundation in several of the Abrahamic religions, including the Catholic Church. [1] As described in the Old Testament books Exodus and Deuteronomy , the Commandments form part of a covenant offered by God to the Israelites to free them from the ...
The term was popularized in 1983 by the Catholic prelate Joseph Bernardin in the United States to express an ideology based on the premise that all human life is sacred and should be protected by law. [3] While there are many adherents, CLE is not exclusively but primarily a Catholic doctrine and/or associated with the Catholic Church. [4]
In Catholic moral theology, the law of gradualness, the law of graduality or gradualism, is the notion that people improve their relationship with God and grow in the virtues gradually, and do not jump to perfection in a single step.