Archbishop’s Journal – Free Will, Conscience and Moral Choice: What Catholics believe

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In a recent interview with Eleanor Clift in *Newsweek *magazine (Dec. 21, 2009), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked about her disagreements with the United States Catholic bishops concerning Church teaching. Speaker Pelosi replied, in part: “I practically mourn this difference of opinion because I feel what I was raised to believe is consistent with what I profess, and that we are all endowed with a free will and a responsibility to answer for our actions. And that women should have the opportunity to exercise their free will.”
Embodied in that statement are some fundamental misconceptions about Catholic teaching on human freedom. These misconceptions are widespread both within the Catholic community and beyond. For this reason I believe it is important for me as Archbishop of San Francisco to make clear what the Catholic Church teaches about free will, conscience, and moral choice.
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I think she got a point here.

no one can deny the confusion in the Church now and days. wiht liberals teaching the people and the Traditional silence, no one knows what is what anymore. so, the Church has to stand up and be objective about all issues that is confusing people.

blessings.
 
Laws against an evil act thwart free will, Nancy? Should rape be legalized, too, since otherwise a free will moral moral choice is being hampered? Since when has a law prevented anyone determined enough from breaking it?

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