Catholic Word of the Day: IMPUTABILITY, 01-18-10

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IMPUTABILITY

The moral responsibility for one's human actions. A person is accountable to God only for his or her deliberate actions. They are acts performed with knowledge of what one is doing and with the consent of the will. In order to gauge the accountability of a particular action, one must consider the degree of deliberateness involved. If a person's knowledge of the nature of the act or his or her consent is diminished, the imputability will be lessened. Catholic moral theology recognizes six chief hindrances to full imputability: ignorance, fear, passion, habits, violence, and mental disorder. (Etym. Latin in-, in + putare, to consider: imputare, to bring a fault into the reckoning; to ascribe.)

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I wonder what CINOs Pelosi, Biden, et al, would say about this? I am laughing as I type. Where would they fall in this list from the definition?

**Catholic moral theology recognizes six chief hindrances to full imputability: ignorance, fear, passion, habits, violence, and mental disorder.**

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Adding other CINOs — please.

Kerry
Daschle
Landrieu
Leaky Leahy
Dodd

and there are a lot more!

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Catholic Word of the Day – links will be provided later by another FReeper.

 

Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle/Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability

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Monogamy	Sanctoral Cycle / Proper of the Saints	Prinknash
Gift of Knowledge	Nine Offices	Imputability