Fonts of Morality
This 'Font of Morality' refers to why an action is done.
What is the Intention?
This term describes an offense against reason, truth, and right conscience.
What is sin?
This principle states that an act may be performed, even if accompanied by an unintended bad effect provided certain conditions.
What is the Principle of Double Effect?
In the Gospel reading for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception on Monday, this figure appeared before the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Who is the Angel, Gabriel?
This 'Font of Morality' refers to the surrounding context of an act.
What are the circumstances?
Adam and Eve transmitted this deprivation to their descendants in human nature.
What is Original Sin?
The fourth condition of the Principle of Double Effect (relating to the proportion of the good effect) essentially means this.
What does it mean that the good effect must be greater than or equal to the bad effect?
In the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Advent, this figure is referred to as "A voice of one crying out in the desert..."
Who is St. John the Baptist?
This 'Font of Morality' refers to the act itself.
What is the Object?
This type of sin destroys charity in the heart of man by a grave violation of God’s law.
What is Mortal Sin?
The third condition of the Principle of Double Effect (relating to the means of good effect) essentially means this.
What does it mean that the good effect cannot be a result of the bad effect?
In the Gospel from the First Sunday of Advent, Jesus foretold both of His Second Coming at the End of Time and this.
What is the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem?
If any one of the three 'fonts' is identified as evil or morally wrong, then the whole act is this.
What is evil or morally wrong?
This type of sin allows charity to subsist, even though it offends and wounds it.
What is Venial Sin?
These are the 4 Conditions of Double Effect.
What are the effects of:
The action must be good in itself.
The agent must have the right intention.
Good action must be the means of good effect.
The good effect must be proportional to the evil effect. (The good effect must be ≥ the bad effect.)
In the Gospel for the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, the dialogue between Jesus and Pontius Pilate focussed on this aspect of Christ's identity.
What is the 'Kingship' of Christ?
If the 'object' of an act is itself morally wrong, it can be described using this term.
What is intrinsically evil?
These are the three criteria for a sin to be considered 'mortal.'
What is the criteria of 'gave matter,' 'full knowledge,' and 'deliberate consent?'
This is the reason that the following example would be considered morally impermissible if meant to produce acne medication but would morally permissible if meant to produce life saving medication:
A pharmaceutical company produces a medicine, foreseeing (but not intending) that a very small number of people will die from rare allergic reactions.
What is — that the the good effect is not in proportion to the bad effect?
In the Gospel for the Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Jesus praises the example of this person despite many giving far more than she does at the Temple.
Who is the poor widow?