For Paul, conscience is the fundamental awareness of the difference between moral good and evil . We must commend ourselves to every persons conscience before God. Those who reject a good conscience can make a shipwreck of their faith. In spite of individual reference to conscience in the writings of some of the Fathers of The Church, e.g. Tertullian, Origin, Chrysostom and Augustine, no systematic treatment of the theme can be found until the Middle Ages. St. Thomas won. . .
Conscience is the most secret core and sanctuary of man.
There he is alone with God whose voice echoes in his depths. But conscience is no infallible guide. We Christians search for truth and for the genuine solution of problems in collaboration with others and in fidelity to our own conscience . The human capacity of self direction and self determination implies a human responsibility for right direction and correct determination. As h uman person s, we have innate within us a sense of the differen ce between right and wrong.