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Conscience

Conscience is an inner feeling that guides us to recognize morally right and wrong behavior according to reason and God. There are three levels of conscience - the instinctive level focused on reward and punishment, the moral level making ethical judgements beyond commands, and the Christian level seeing morality as a call to holiness. Conscience comes in different kinds that can be properly or improperly formed.

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Conscience

Conscience is an inner feeling that guides us to recognize morally right and wrong behavior according to reason and God. There are three levels of conscience - the instinctive level focused on reward and punishment, the moral level making ethical judgements beyond commands, and the Christian level seeing morality as a call to holiness. Conscience comes in different kinds that can be properly or improperly formed.

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CONSCIENCE

An inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the


rightness or wrongness of ones behavior.
Judgement of reason by which the human person
recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act (CCC 1796).
Inner voice summoning us to love the good & the evil.
Our most secret core and sanctuary where we encounter
God; our heart. (CCC 1776)
THREE LEVELS OF CONSCIENCE
1. INSTINCTIVE LEVEL
Dominated by fear of punishment & desire for
approval or reward.
This is normal for children.
2. MORAL/PHILOSOPHICAL LEVEL
Operates on the ethical level and not just on what is
commanded.
Has awareness of the inner good or evil of a specific
act.
3. CHRISTIAN LEVEL
Places moral striving as a personal call to holiness &
wholeness.
KINDS OF CONSCIENCE
1.

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