centuries” (53.3). There are new questions and new insights that give rise to a fuller understanding and articulation of the universal moral law over time. Believers and theologians contribute to this. It is the role of the Church’s Magisterium to discern these and then to proclaim those that are true expressions of the moral law. This section of Veritatis Splendor contrasts two views of conscience: on the one hand, the traditional view beautifully presented in Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes