Does conscience trump doctrine?

Joe Heschmeier is next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Aesthis podcast

for living understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Psy Kellett, your host and a listener,

Jason Kay sent us a suggestion for an episode.

And we thought it was a perfect episode for Joe Heschmeier,

who's the new apologist here at Catholic Aesthis.

It had to do with conscience.

And I was looking around on the internet

see what people, what Catholics are saying about conscience.

And this guest columnist for the New Jersey star ledger,

Gabby Garcia Vera wrote a piece in which she claimed

that conscience can basically trump doctrine.

I have to say I mispronounce her name,

you'll see in the interview that follows,

but I just want to apologize to that.

I didn't mean any disrespect to her.

I wanted to take her idea seriously

because it's a very generally held idea these days.

But the Catholic Church holds two things.

One, you must follow your conscience.

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