YOUCAT Question n. 344 – Part I. Why does the Church also make declarations about ethical questions and about matters of personal conduct?
(Youcat answer) Believing is a path.
One learns how to stay on this path, in other words, how to act rightly and to
lead a good life, only by following the instructions in the Gospel. The
teaching authority (Magisterium) of the Church must remind people also about
the demands of the natural moral law.
A
deepening through CCC
(CCC 2032) The Church, the "pillar and
bulwark of the truth," "has received this solemn command of Christ
from the apostles to announce the saving truth" (1 Tim 3:15; LG 17).
"To the Church belongs the right always and everywhere to announce moral
principles, including those pertaining to the social order, and to make
judgments on any human affairs to the extent that they are required by the
fundamental rights of the human person or the salvation of souls" (CIC,
can. 747 § 2).
Reflecting
and meditating
(Youcat comment) There are not
two truths. What is humanly right cannot be wrong from the Christian
perspective. And what is right according to Christianity cannot be humanly
wrong. That is why the Church must teach comprehensively about moral issues.
(CCC
Comment)
(CCC 2033) The Magisterium of the Pastors of the Church in moral matters is
ordinarily exercised in catechesis and preaching, with the help of the works of
theologians and spiritual authors. Thus from generation to generation, under
the aegis and vigilance of the pastors, the "deposit" of Christian
moral teaching has been handed on, a deposit composed of a characteristic body
of rules, commandments, and virtues proceeding from faith in Christ and
animated by charity. Alongside the Creed and the Our Father, the basis for this
catechesis has traditionally been the Decalogue which sets out the principles
of moral life valid for all men.
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