Catechism Paragraph 1789
Part 3:
LIFE IN CHRIST
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 1: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Article 6: MORAL CONSCIENCE
Section 1: MAN'S VOCATION LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
Chapter 1: THE DIGNITY OF THE HUMAN PERSON
Article 6: MORAL CONSCIENCE
Some rules apply in every case:
- One may never do evil so that good may result from it;
- the Golden Rule: "Whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them."[56]
- charity always proceeds by way of respect for one's neighbor and his conscience: "Thus sinning against your brethren and wounding their conscience . . . you sin against Christ."[57] Therefore "it is right not to . . . do anything that makes your brother stumble."[58]
š Footnotes
[56]
Mt 7:12; cf. Lk 6:31; Tob 4:15.
[57]
1 Cor 8:12.
[58]
Rom 14:21.