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On the role of conscience, sin and love: the moral life and Catholic tradition.

Publication: National Catholic Reporter
Publication Date: 20-MAY-05 		Format: Online - approximately 1248 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: On the role of conscience, sin and love: the moral life and Catholic tradition.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
MORAL WISDOM: LESSONS AND TEXTS FROM THE CATHOLIC TRADITION By James F. Keenan Sheed and Ward, 190 pages, $1Z95

THE WORKS OF MERCY: THE HEART OF CATHOLICISM By James F. Keenan Sheed and Ward, 128 pages, $14.95

We know that today many Catholics look with hesitancy to the authoritative teachers in the church. Many of those in authority think most ordinary Catholics hesitate to follow their lead because they would rather follow the lead of their own desires. In Moral Wisdom and Works of Mercy, Jesuit Fr. James F. Keenan, a professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass., suggests that maybe one reason people don't take sufficient account of the traditional teachers is that the tradition, as it developed after 1221, emphasized sin rather than love--the first part of the primary natural law principle, "avoid evil," rather than the entire principle, "do good and avoid evil." One stands still by saying "no" to the bad and leads by saying "yes" to the good. If we spend all our time saying "no," we are not going anywhere. A leader will be...

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