Hi, my name's Father Mike Schmitz, and you're listening to the Catechism-In a year

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miss a day. Don't miss an episode. And we are just launching into the next section chapter 3 in

fact God's salvation we're talking about law and grace and so today we're going to

be talking about the moral law and how there are various kinds of laws, they're all connected.

But we're gonna begin with the natural moral law.

So the natural moral law is what the church

is classically called natural law.

It's not called natural law because it's like the law of

nature. Sometimes people will confuse that and say well the law of nature is you know

kind of like a we live in a dog eat dog world that kind of thing when it comes

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