Consciences

One way to follow Jesus is by examining our consciences about luxuries.

To suggest otherwise is to ignore souls and consciences.

In November 2023, the bishops conference issued an election-year “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” as it does every four years.

Amidst this tendency to corruption and decay, Christ’s spirit was periodically re-awakened from time to time in the form of honest souls who broke from formalization to “walk the walk” and live according to their consciences.

Despite the eerie silence in public spaces, despite the preventable deaths that should weigh heavily on the consciences of public officials, even despite the authoritarian tendencies of too many leaders, the U.S. is not a dystopia – yet.

On their final day or arguments, Democrats continued to toggle between exhaustive recitations of the evidence and appeals to senators’ consciences — saving their loftiest and most potent arguments for the primetime audience.

The dialogue drew much from the document that inspired the panel’s name: “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which aims to educate U.S. Church members about political responsibility.

This also helped train Republican politicians in the art of stifling their consciences and lying shamelessly for political gain.

This might ease the consciences of white, affluent women who have previously been silent in the face of black oppression, but it’s fair to ask: Are they really furthering the cause of justice, or is this another example of white co-optation?

Jesus is the truth that gives rest to sin-burdened consciences.

The bishops were asked to examine their consciences regarding the response of the Church in their country and how they have treated those who have been abused.

I am sad to see her go but I am consoled by the idea that she will continue to live on and on in all of our consciences and our imaginations.

In short, the system is designed more to appease our guilty consciences rather than create a viable business model.

Perhaps, though there is no logic to this, especially when the debate has been generally agreed to be a free vote, without parties seeking to bind the consciences of their members to the view of the majority in their caucuses.

Simon Clarke compared Mrs May to a “captain driving the ship at the rocks”, adding: "Colleagues who have said they will act, I think now need to search their consciences and follow up on what they pledged to do.

They have sold their consciences to LRC in exchange for a few marginal and ephemeral favours.

Because the members of these bodies were under solemn oath to act in accordance with the law and their own good consciences, they have been seen by some legal historians as the prototype for the English Grand Jury.

It argues that people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice.

Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, (49) However, historians such as Ludwig von Pastor insist that the bull neither allowed anything new nor was necessarily binding on Catholic consciences.

On May 7 Dr. Lewis presided over an all-university meeting, and declared himself in sympathy with the students, but appealed to them, concerning the nationwide call to "strike", that their consciences would remember the faculty.