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The sin of the century

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“The sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin. – Pope Pius XII (in a 1946 address to the United States Catechetical Congress)

Prophetic much?

Obviously such a sin was already occurring at his time for him to be addressing it. But how much more does that ring true 60 years later?

20 years after Pope Pius XII made that statement Joseph Fletcher founded his famous theory of “Situational Ethics” which basically says that no act has any kind of absolute moral gravity. Every act’s morality depends on the situation. So even lying, murder, stealing, etc. can all be – not only excusable or justified – but inherently good if the situation merits it. In other words, for Fletcher, the end does justify the means. [Keep Reading]

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