Across
- 5. The Church's moral teachings, Sacred Scripture, writings of the saints, and books by wise teachers all help to form our consciences in accord with the ___.
- 6. To be right, our conscience has to be in conformity with reality, with the truth of the human person, and with the ____.
- 8. If you think something is wrong and do it anyway, you ___ yourself with your own actions.
- 9. Conscience is not a ____.
- 11. We have to "____" our consciences so they can consistently and easily direct us to a good end.
- 14. The more we grow in grace and ___, the less susceptible we are to bad judgments rooted in our own sin.
- 17. The state of a person who cannot be held responsible for lack of knowledge because it was not their fault that they didn't know is called ____ ignorance.
- 20. ____ makes it difficult for us always to perceive what is best.
- 22. The state of a person who is lacking knowledge they should have known and so is at fault for their erroneous conscience, due to taking little trouble to find out what is true and good or due to blinding their conscience by sin
- 23. In order to keep conscience from accidentally leading us astray, we have to ___ it through practice.
- 24. God speaks through our natures and through the primary principles of ____ law.
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- 1. The Magisterium has been given the charism of ___, which ensures that the Church never teaches error in her dogmas.
- 2. Because we are not omniscient and our minds have been darkened by sin,our conscience can be _____.
- 3. All of us, whether we realize it or not, form our conscience in accord with someone else's ___.
- 4. Conscience is a decision guided by ___.
- 7. Conscience helps us to apply our knowledge of right and wrong to particular ___.
- 10. As the Body of Christ, the ___ claims the primary place in forming our consciences.
- 12. The Church is entrusted by God with the tasks of preserving, guarding, and ___ divine revelation.
- 13. Conscience is God's ____ in our hearts.
- 15. Conscience is a judgment of ____ about the moral quality of a concrete action.
- 16. Because consciences is the ultimate judge for each of us about what course of action we should take, we should ____ follow our consciences.
- 18. Conscience is a ___ of God, who speaks to us behind a veil and teaches and rules us by His representatives.
- 19. To form one's conscience is to let someone else ___ our decision-making capabilities and our judgments about what is good and bad.
- 21. A malformed conscience that judges sincerely but incorrectly
