The judgment of the practical intellect deciding, from general principles of faith and reason, the goodness or badness of a way of acting that a person now faces. It is an operation of the intellect ...

There is much said today about conscience. Some of this originates in the recent debates about marriage, divorce and Holy Communion. There are some who believe that the Church should respect the ...

Most people assume they know what a “conscience” is. We speak of having a clear one, a guilty one, or sometimes none at all. Before doing this study, I never thought too deeply about it. I just went ...

A grade-school youngster likely would define conscience as knowing right from wrong and likely would explain that this was learned from parents. My favorite definition is, “Do unto others what you ...

An erroneous conscience when the mind minimizes grave sins but magnifies matters of little importance, in the manner of the Pharisees accused by Christ. It is also the hardened conscience, which ...