March 13, 2013

A Question of Morality

So, as you know (or should know if you follow this blog regularly) I'm Catholic. But, I'm not a confirmed Catholic yet. I get confirmed in 17 days. Part of the confirmation process is to go to RCIA classes to learn about the doctrine of Catholicism . Today we talked about morality. We talked about how to make moral "Catholic" decisions.

Catholics get a lot of crap. Okay, I got comments today about the pope, about child molesters and how evil priest are. Yes. There were some bad Catholic priests who did horrible things. BUT. There are people who do evil things to children everywhere. It doesn't have to be a priest. It can be anyone, Catholic, Baptist, Methodist, Jewish, Mormon, Atheist. The religion doesn't define the evil doer's decisions.. and those decisions don't define the religion.

We learned today that inside every person is an innate dignity. This dignity cannot be taken from the person. It's our human nature.

A moral decision will not affect the dignity of another person negatively.
A moral decision will not hurt another person.
A moral decision must have 3 GOOD parts to it:
1. The Act itself
2. The Motivation
3. The Circumstances
Even if you are robbing a bank to feed the poor, the act itself is stealing thus the decision would be immoral.

Anyways... Now, I'm thinking. What things can I do to be more virtuous? More moral?

It's interesting.
H.Eilene

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