By Brian Clowes, Ph.D., Human Life International - A fundamental misunderstanding of the role of the human conscience lies at the root of many of the problems in the Catholic Church today. Very few Catholics even know what the conscience actually is. When pressed, many will say “If my conscience tells me it’s all right, I can do it.” This is just one way of saying “If it feels good, do it,” or, in the case of abortion, “If I think abortion is the lesser of two evils in my own personal situation, then it’s all right.”