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Prepared and co-published by the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, this book is a combination of two lengthy essays written by Cardinal Ratzinger and delivered in talks when he was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Both talks deal with the importance of conscience and its exercise in particular circumstances. Ratzinger’s reflections show that contemporary...

which can be perceived only by maintaining a simplicity of vision. Perhaps we find it so difficult today to deal with the essence of humanity because we have ceased being capable of simplicity.14 Therefore, morality requires not the specialist, but the witness. The position of the bishop as teacher rests on this: He teaches not what he himself has discovered. But he witnesses to the life wisdom of faith, in which the primitive wisdom of humanity is cleansed, maintained, and deepened. Through contact
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