Fr. Mark Pilon, a priest of the Diocese of Arlingtom, Virginia, wrote an essay today at The Catholic Thing.org entitled: "When Conscience Trumps Faith and God."
In his essay, Fr. Pilon debunks the wishful thinking of the many Catholics who, in the aftermath of Vatican II, have allowed themselves to believe that their own conscience is the final arbiter of good and evil.
Here are some brief excerpts, but we would all do well to read the entire essay, and file it under "keepers."
For additional reading on this topic, please read the essay written today, by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, entitled: "Conscience And Truth," by clicking HERE.The notion that conscience is absolute is a great anthropological and theological lie. Nothing is absolute but God. And conscience, which is an act of the intellect, declares itself absolute only if it simultaneously declares God is not God....while man sins if he does not follow his conscience, this doesn’t mean that he does not sin if he follows his conscience.Indeed, where conscience deliberately refuses to be subject to the law of God, it becomes an agent of sin.
