Natural Law and Reveal Divine Law (through the Bible, Fathers, and teaching authority of the church), right?
How do you reconcile them? If the Pope or council has not made a definitive determination.
Divine Revelation consists in Sacred Tradition and Sacred Scripture.
The entire moral law is found in Tradition and Scripture, as well as in natural law.
There is no teaching in natural law that is not also at least implicit in Tradition and Scripture.
The Magisterium teaches from Tradition and Scripture, and also from natural law.
The Magisterium teaches infallible in any of three ways:
- solemn definitions of the Pope
- solemn definitions of an Ecumenical Council
- the Universal Magisterium (when the Pope, and the Bishops dispersed through the world, teach in agreement on one position, definitively to be held, on a matter of faith and morals.)
Although there are only a few solemn definitions on morals, there are many teachings on morals in the teachings of the Universal Magisterium.
When there is no infallible teaching on a question of morality, there are numerous non-infallible teachings which, though subject to a limited possibility of error, are generally reliable.
The faithful also need to make use of fallible theological and pious opinion in order to more fully understand the teachings of Tradition, Scripture, Magisterium. Theology is not superfluous to the Faith. And we are not able to interpret, understand, and apply the teachings of the Tradition, Scripture, Magisterium without some theological and pious opinion.
There is no conflict between what natural law implicitly teaches, and what Tradition, Scripture, Magisterium teach, explicitly and implicitly. If there appears to be a conflict, the teachings of Tradition, Scripture, Magisterium must prevail.
