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Ancient Truths in New Light
Father Paschal Corby
Fr Paschal is a priest of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He currently lectures in Moral Theology / Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney. He is the author of The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement (Pickwick, 2019).
This is the first article in a three-part series dealing with St John Paul II’s encyclical: Veritatis splendor. This encyclical was published in 1993 and is one of the most comprehensive teachings in the Church against the tyranny of moral relativism. One of the principal ideas of the encyclical was the knowability of moral truth and its connection to our relationship with Almighty God. Fr Paschal in this article explores the intrinsic connection between moral truth and eternal life.
The virtue of hope, before it is a virtue is a passion. A passion that is guided by the intellect, but is only raised to the level of virtue by grace. As Christians, we are called to cultivate the virtue of hope in deepening our relationship with the Lord.
