Primacy and formation of conscience

[JoabAnias]

I defy any of you to tell me that I was wrong and they were right.

Wouldn't want to try but sometimes its a matter of ascent in obedience.

Peace.

 

[MissBabylon]

As I explained to GN, it's because you are not talking about conscience here. Conscience comes into play in your concrete actions in the world given the truth that you receive in faith from the Church.

For example, let's say your boss instructs you to complete a certain task. You would exercise your freedom of conscience by judging that particular act by the true morality you have received by faith in God's revelation (as proclaimed by the successors of Peter and the Apostles with the safeguard of the Holy Spirit.)

If you judge with your conscience the particular act your boss is commanding to be against authentic morality, then you should not be bound, either with force or by an internal obligation, to go against your conscience. That is what freedom of conscience is. It is not involved in judging whether particular propositions are true or not.

Not sure whether I understand you, forgive me. So we're only supposed to listen to our conscience (rather than directly to the church) to check whether something the church orders us to do is in line with church doctrine?

Then what about those situations when one cannot in good conscience obey the church because it would lead to greater evil?