Assertion: conscience | /r/HasProperty | formed
Facets:
value: properly
type: DEGREE
value: well
type: DEGREE
value: clearly
type: DEGREE
value: deficiently
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Every person has the moral obligation to see to it that his or her conscience is properly formed.
text: A safe way to read this principle is: if your conscience is well-formed, and you are being careful to reason clearly and objectively from true moral principles, then you must follow the reasoned judgment of your conscience about the morality of a specific act.
text: This brings us to the question of why conscience must be “formed.
text: and we have no way of knowing whether our conscience is well-formed or not, well-functioning or not, accurate or disastrously off-course.
text: In other words, conscience also tends to be formed by living according to conscience: and conscience tends to be deformed by living contrary to conscience.
text: It is formed and developed by my environment, experiences and understanding.
text: Clearly, my conscience is deficiently formed.
text: A conscience which is both well formed (shaped by education and experience) and well informed (aware of facts, evidence and so on) enables us to know ourselves and our world and act accordingly.
text: Conscience, then, must be formed to conform to what we Catholics call the moral law.
text: -- conscience must be properly formed and educated by ensuring it is "dutifully conformed to the divine law and submissive toward the Church's teaching office, which authentically interprets that law in the light of the Gospel"; and
text: Conscience must therefore be both well-formed and well-informed.
text: and we have no way of knowing whether our conscience is well-formed or not, well-functioning or not, accurate or disastrously off-course.