*Image: Pope John Paul II greets Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger during his inauguration October 22, 1978. [CNA/Vatican Media]
Randall B. Smith is a Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas. …
an opinion is frequently heard which questions the intrinsic and unbreakable bond between faith and morality, as if membership in the Church and her internal unity were to be decided on the basis of faith alone, while in the sphere of morality a pluralism of opinions and of kinds of behavior could be tolerated, these being left to the judgment of the individual subjective conscience or to the diversity of social and cultural contexts (VS, 4). …