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Healing the Conscience: St. John Paul II’s Teaching on the Conscience Healed by Christ

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  • Healing the Conscience: St. John Paul II’s Teaching on the Conscience Healed by Christ
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  • 05/30/2024
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  • This thesis shows John Paul II’s teaching on what the conscience is, how the conscience is wounded by original sin, and how the conscience is healed by Jesus Christ. Through the many writings of Pope St. John Paul II, I show that the conscience has its origin in God and is founded in God’s truth. The original gift of conscience from God was to help man enact God’s truth in the concrete events and relationships of his life. The sin of our first parents wounded man’s conscience and disrupted its integral relationship with truth, hindering man’s ability to act in accordance with the truth. Continuous personal acts of sin further wounded conscience’s relationship with truth. God patiently worked in history to bring man’s conscience back to its original integrity, forming the people of Israel and giving them the moral law. However, the conscience needed an interior remedy which would fully restore man’s conscience to God’s truth. God the Father sent the perfect remedy to man’s conscience through the gift of His Son in the Incarnation. Jesus Christ heals the conscience by His divine charity given to man through His Passion, Death, and Resurrection, freeing the conscience from the bondage and burden of sin. Jesus gives conscience a share in his charity through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost and most especially in the Holy Eucharist, the source and summit of the Christian conscience. The saints of Christ’s Church are the perfect witness of the conscience healed by Christ.
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  • Martire, Ryan. "Healing the Conscience: St. John Paul II’s Teaching on the Conscience Healed by Christ." MA thesis, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, 2023.
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