TCE 33: The “Greater Good” Is Not a Catholic Moral System

Padre Peregrino

Fr. Dave Nix

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 November 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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TCE (Theology and Current Events) #33 tackles when we should make decisions for “the greater good.” Does the end ever justify the means? Of course not. *** This podcast is a reading of my blog here https://padreperegrino.org/2021/11/greatergood/ quoting -Pope John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor at https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_06081993_veritatis-splendor.html -and “Conservative Momma” on FB at https://www.facebook.com/100044275487132/posts/435424134610099/?d=n https://rumble.com/embed/vmr0hp/?pub=4

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0:00.0	This is TCE Theology and Current Events Number 33. The Greater Good is not a Catholic moral system.
0:08.7	You know, I'm going to try to not get in the habit of doing this much, but this is again my blog from
0:13.7	earlier this week. It's just such an important topic that I wanted this on the go for the people
0:19.3	who don't have the time to read my blog,
0:21.3	but I will link it in the show notes.
0:24.2	How many of you ever heard, even priests, say that you have to do something, since COVID started
0:30.1	especially, something for the greater good of the community?
0:34.2	We're going to take a look at that term greater good now and see if it's even Catholic.
0:38.5	We'll start with eugenics.
0:40.9	What are eugenics?
0:42.8	Eugenics, the notion that the strong can kill the weak, is built on the philosophy that population
0:48.5	reduction may have to be done for the greater good of society.
0:53.1	It's built on the part of Darwinian evolution called
0:55.7	natural selection and survival of the fittest. Under this philosophy, the Nazi Holocaust was
1:02.1	simply a moral attempt to cleanse their own society of weaker Jews for the greater good of society,
1:09.0	as the Nazis might say. Why then do so many on the left today
1:13.2	say that we have to make decisions on COVID for the greater good? Now in their defense, liberals do
1:19.4	not want another holocaust, and proportionate decisions in bioethics can be made under
1:25.1	extremely limited criteria. So let's jump into those limited criteria to see if we
1:30.4	can apply the notion of the greater good for global decisions on COVID. We'll start with non-COVID examples
1:37.2	and examples not as extreme as the Holocaust. The only time I am aware of in Catholic moral theology where one can proportionately weigh
1:46.5	too bad outcomes in a utilitarian manner is when the initial actions include doing no evil.
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