The Dignity of Conscience | Fr. Alan O'Sullivan, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 6, 2022 at Trinity College Dublin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Alan O’Sullivan OP is an Irish Dominican. Ordained a priest in 2000 he studied at Blackfriars House of Studies, Oxford, where he obtained a Lectorate in Sacred Theology. His area of research focussed on “New Movements and Communities, Vatican II, and the Ecclesiology of Communion.” Having worked as a curate in a parish in Dublin for two years he went to study at the Angelicum, Rome, where he obtained a Licence in Sacred Theology. In 2012 he obtained his doctorate from Fribourg University, Switzerland. He specialises in moral theology, and lectures at the Dominican House of Studies, Dublin. He is currently Chaplain to Trinity College Dublin and Spiritual Director to Pure in Heart, Ireland. His book Self-Giving, Self-Mastery was published by Peter Lang in 2017.

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0:40.3	So I'll just read you a passage from St. John's Gospel, which is seasonal, shall we say.
0:52.3	Pilots said to him,
0:55.5	so you are a king.
0:58.8	And Jesus answered,
1:01.0	you say that I am a king.
1:04.0	For this I was born
1:05.3	and for this I have come into the world
1:08.6	to bear witness to the truth.
1:14.2	Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.
1:21.7	Pilate said to him, what is truth?
1:43.3	So we'll ask the spirit of truth to come down upon us during this talk, to guide us into all truth, and to enlighten our consciences as well.
1:47.8	So let's get into it.
1:58.2	Some classical, well, statements on conscience,
2:08.2	St. Bonaventure, 13th century. Conscience is like God's herald and messenger.
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