Conscience & Catholicism: Rights Responsibilities and Institutional Responses

About this book

Leading ethicists and theologians address "Conscience " a term loaded with meaning and controversy in the Catholic Vhurch in recent decades around issues like political participation human sexuality war and institutional violence and theological dissent. Many essays focus on the tension between the primacy of conscience (codified at Vatican II) and the processes and cultures of Catholic institutions including schools hospitals and medical research facilities.