Day 236: The Morality of Human Acts

The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Together, with Fr. Mike, we examine the article on the morality of human acts. Fr. Mike unpacks the three “sources” of morality: the object chosen, the end in view or the intention, and the circumstances. He emphasizes the importance of understanding the categories of right or wrong, good or evil. Today’s readings are Catechism paragraphs 1749-1761.

This episode has been found to be in conformity with the Catechism by the Institute on the Catechism, under the Subcommittee on the Catechism, USCCB.

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Please note: The Catechism of the Catholic Church contains adult themes that may not be suitable for children - parental discretion is advised.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and you're listening to The Catechism in a Year Podcast,
0:09.2	where we encounter God's plan of Your goodness for us, revealed in Scripture and passed down to
0:13.2	the tradition of the Catholic faith. The Catechism in a Year is brought to you by Ascension.
0:16.9	In 365 days, we will read through the Catechism of the Catholic Church discovering our identity
0:21.7	and God's family. As we journey together toward our heavenly home, this is day 236
0:26.6	reading paragraphs, 1749 to 1761, as always. I am using the Ascension Edition of the Catechism,
0:32.7	which includes the foundations of faith approach, but you can follow along with any recent version
0:36.4	of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. You can also download your own Catechism in a year reading
0:40.3	plan by visiting AscensionPress.com slash C-I-Y. And lastly, you can click follow or subscribe
0:45.6	on your podcast app for daily updates, daily notifications. Thank you for all of you who have
0:49.1	subscribed. Also, all those who have, like, made, like, ranked to this or what do you call it rated
0:53.1	this, given it a score, you know, whatever that's called, where you give it like five stars,
0:58.0	you know, if you give it one, I guess, part of me would think why are you on day 236? But nonetheless,
1:03.1	all of you have given the thumbs up to this or shared with other people. I know there are so many
1:07.1	people who are actually, I know it's day 236 for us right now, but there are some who on our day
1:12.2	236, it's their day one, because people start this all of the time. And so whoever that person is,
1:17.0	let's pray for them and pray for ourselves as we launch forward in this next section on this
1:22.4	third pillar of the Catechism article four, the Morality of Human Acts against paragraph 1749
1:26.8	to the end to 1761. It's kind of the whole article, not kind of the whole article. It is the whole
1:31.7	article. And basically, it talks about the sources of morality, basically, the morality of human
1:37.1	acts depend on the three elements, right? So the object chosen, like the thing itself,
1:43.2	the end in view or the intention, and then the circumstances of the action. So this is in so many
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