Separate The Catholic Faith's Morality

The Catholic faith’s morality can be summed up in these three rules. First is that the result of an action does not justify its intentions. Secondly is the Golden Rule, which means that “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (Jesus, Mt 19:19) or in simpler terms we must treat others how we want to be treated. Finally, you must have love in mind when doing an action not only for yourself and those affected by the action but also for God himself. These rules help to separate the Catholic faith from other moralities that do not have focus on God and his part or they do not care about the intention of an action. There is also some philosophical ideas that can justify any action if the result is better for the “greater good” causing things like

This idea is unchanging throughout any moral philosophy. The difference comes from how one decides what is truly right or wrong. For example the philosopher Aristotle believed that morality is all about being virtuous. Virtue can be defined as “a state of character that allows a person both to judge with his or her rational part the appropriate way to behave or respond in a certain situation and to feel or desire in an appropriate way”(Secular Ethics Pg. 33). You have to like to do the right thing and only when you are doing that are you a truly virtuous man with good morals. You must also choose the path that is not an extreme option in either way good or bad. His philosophy was different from the Catholic Church’s ideas as his put no value into a person being humble or caring for the poor as he did not believe those were parts of being virtuous as going out of your way to an extreme to help somone was not considered to be virtuous in his mind. Another philosopher that had different opinions than the Catholic Church was Mill. His system was all based around common sense morality of an action and is completely about the result of an action. This is a form of Consequentialist thinking. This is completely different from the Catholic Church as he does not take the intention of an action into account at all. Another way that his system is different is that no action is always inherently wrong like

Human cloning is something that we never even thought of 100 years ago but, is slowly coming closer to reality and the Church had to decide its feeling on it. The Church ultimately felt that cloning something is like we are playing God and decided that any cloning would be considered immoral in the church's eyes. This is because we are “created in God’s image and likeness”(The Human Person Notes). Creating our own humans with unique souls and consciousness is considered to be very wrong in Catholic Church morality. Another big issue being talked about in the Church is capital punishment which the morality of it has always been highly debated. The Church's stance officially is that it is only okay during situations where the person is an immense threat to society. This is very rare these days which causes the issue to be misunderstood. This misunderstanding can be linked to the three moral Determinants which determine the morality of an action. These are object chosen, Intention and Circumstances of an action. When talking about capital punishment we must always remember the intention which is where the confusion of if the death penalty is moral takes place. If you are only killing the person in order to get revenge the action would be considered to be immoral because revenge is wrong in the Catholic Church's beliefs. The