Conscience is something often invoked, but too little reflected upon.
As we approach election day, it might be helpful to review the Church s teaching about conscience, and to consider the example of a well-formed conscience in the life of St. Thomas More. Its voice, ever calling him to love and to do what is good and to avoid evil, sounds in his heart at the right moment . . . For man has in his heart a law inscribed by God . . . His conscience is man s most secret core and his sanctuary. There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths.