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Fr. Richard Benson, CM asks if Catholics have lost moral clarity…
"However, I would suggest that there is a deeper and more important theological question that is really beneath the concern about the apparent loss of a sense of sin: Did something happen to Catholic morality, and did someone forget to tell me?
The answer is, in fact, yes and no. Something did happen to Catholic morality in the last 35 years. There is a different vision than that prior to the Council — but it is not a new vision.
What the Church has done is to recover the best of its moral tradition and move from an almost singular focus on isolated actions, and return to a morality that addresses the person. The Church has rediscovered the power of the Aristotelian/Thomistic teaching, that human actions, moral actions are only possible because they flow from human beings. This means that indeed the moral question “What should I do?” remains essential, but is actually secondary to the primary moral question, “What should I be?” Let me explain…
the-tidings.com/2005/0923/benson.htm
"However, I would suggest that there is a deeper and more important theological question that is really beneath the concern about the apparent loss of a sense of sin: Did something happen to Catholic morality, and did someone forget to tell me?
The answer is, in fact, yes and no. Something did happen to Catholic morality in the last 35 years. There is a different vision than that prior to the Council — but it is not a new vision.
What the Church has done is to recover the best of its moral tradition and move from an almost singular focus on isolated actions, and return to a morality that addresses the person. The Church has rediscovered the power of the Aristotelian/Thomistic teaching, that human actions, moral actions are only possible because they flow from human beings. This means that indeed the moral question “What should I do?” remains essential, but is actually secondary to the primary moral question, “What should I be?” Let me explain…
the-tidings.com/2005/0923/benson.htm