[divine_moment_of_facts]

To be secure in following our conscience, we require a properly informed conscience, i.e., one that is in possession of the truth.

Our conscience doesn't need "informing" it already knows the Truth. Our conscience IS the Truth. It is the light of God put in us by God. That is why it is called our Conscience.

And it is the teaching of the Church that guarantees that we possess the truth revealed by God.

There are people who have never stepped foot in Church nor have read the Bible and yet they are Graced by God.

We form our conscience with the truth of the moral realm, so that we might conform our actions to those of Christ.

"We" don't form our conscience.. our conscience forms us. God gave us our conscience and it's up to us to use it. Free Will.

[Mad Dawg]

I think your view of conscience is not "self-evident", and it is certainly not the view of the Catholic Church. I'd wager there are a number of Protestants who do not share your view.

I'm not exactly sure where to go with this. Maybe you could tell us more about your thoughts on the matter and how you came to, uh, form them?

[maryz]

Our conscience doesn't need "informing" it already knows the Truth.

Guess you've never run into any of those hellions, uh, kids whose parents belong to the "we'd never stifle his creativity!" school of child-rearing!

But surely you must have noticed that people's consciences vary widely. I do accept natural law, but, in general, people's untrained "consciences" are far more sensitive to offenses of others against their own perceived rights than they are to their own offenses against the claims of others.