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To: voltaires_zit

Amen.

And is it actually Catholic doctrine that, in a situation of two evils, one should strive to do the least harm possible?

Would that it were so.


290 posted on 03/06/2007 8:31:25 PM PST by wouldntbprudent
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To: wouldntbprudent

oops -- mouse fart -- sorry for the dupe post


292 posted on 03/06/2007 8:33:10 PM PST by wouldntbprudent
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To: wouldntbprudent

> And is it actually Catholic doctrine that, in a situation
> of two evils, one should strive to do the least harm
> possible?

One statement of the rule: "...it is lawful to tolerate a lesser moral evil in order to avoid a greater evil or in order to promote a greater good, [but] it is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it."
Humanae Vitae
Paul VI


301 posted on 03/06/2007 8:47:35 PM PST by voltaires_zit
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