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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 ...
The contents of each volume of Moral Theology are listed broadly below: [3] Volume 1: Preface to the discourse (dissertatio prolegomena), on conscience, on laws, on the theological virtues, and on the first commandment; Volume 2: On commandments II, III, IV, V, VI, IX and VII, on justice and laws, and on restitution
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 document was presented by Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, on April 2, 2004, the memorial of Francis of Paola. [6] He noted that the document was preceded by Laborem Exercens, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis and Centesimus Annus, wherein John Paul II expounded upon the church's social teaching.
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.
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.