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Lesson 14

Conscience

Conscience is not a feeling but an ability of man’s reason to judge whether an action is moral or immoral.

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Lesson Topics
Conscience Grace Sin Virtue
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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Conscience
    :
    (n.): The gift God gave human beings to be able to use reason in order to judge right from wrong. Our conscience is God’s voice in our hearts. We have a responsibility to inform our conscience with prayer and God’s word about what is truly good.
  • Omniscient
    :
    (adj.): All-knowing.
  • Erroneous Conscience
    :
    (n.): A malformed conscience that departs from reason and divine law. To be erroneous is to be wrong or incorrect.
  • Invincible Ignorance
    :
    (n.): The state of a person who cannot be held responsible for lack of knowledge, such as those who have never heard the Gospel message.
  • Vincible Ignorance
    :
    (n.): The state of a person who is lacking knowledge they should have known. An individual displays vincible ignorance when he “takes little trouble to find out what is true and good, or when conscience is by degrees almost blinded through the habit of committing a sin” (CCC 1791; GS 16).

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