Course Description
The current crisis of morals within the Church – including the abuses cases– is one of the biggest challenges. What can be done? Will it be necessary to change the structure of the Church? During the long pontificate of John Paul II and Benedict XVI several answers were given, even though they weren’t always accepted and sometimes they were not even well known. Key aspects of the crisis of morals and its origins are going to be analysed, with a special emphasis on the principles of morality. This course provides an overview of the most important challenges and offers valid principles within the context of the actual challenges.
Bibliography
THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologiae, I-II, qq. 18-21.
HANS SCHURMANN et al., Principles of Christian Morality, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986.
GABRIELE KUBY, The Global Sexual Revolution: Destruction of Freedom in the Name of Freedom, New York: Angelico Press, 2015.
JOHN PAUL II, Encyclical Veritatis Splendor, Vatican 1993.
BENEDICT XVI, Pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland, Vatican 2010. The Church and the Scandal of sexual abuse, Munich 2019.