The idea that conscience blinds us, making us less able to oppose evil’s most brazen forms, is deeply disturbing, for conscience is the sine qua non of civil society. Conscience is supposed to be the ...

Few novelists have captured the ultimate ambiguity of conscience better than Mark Twain did in Huckleberry Finn. Jim, the escaped slave who accompanies Huck down the river on a raft, is on a journey ...

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‘CONSCIENCE IS INVIOLABLE’? Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago speaks to reporters during a break in the Ordinary Synod of Bishops on the Family. Edward Pentin Primacy of conscience was thrust to the ...