By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - In other words, by taking seriously life within the Catholic Church for decades, even though “natural law” has scarcely ever been mentioned, I find that morality is no longer either just a theory or a puzzle. It is a reality compass now operative within, not primarily from personal study but rather from Jesus Christ through the sacramental life of the Church. And I recognize now that I would never wish to follow a different compass, even if my own heavenly hopes were in vain. To do so would be to give up the integrity of my own being. It would be—as a person—to disintegrate.