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Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Intrinsically Evil Acts and Repentance – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky: Intrinsically Evil Acts and Repentance

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By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture, March 24, 2025facebook sharing button

Fr. Jerry Pokorsky is a priest of the Diocese of Arlington who has also served as a financial administrator in the Diocese of Lincoln. Trained in business and accounting, he also holds a Master of Divinity and a Master’s in moral theology. Father Pokorsky co-founded both CREDO and Adoremus, two organizations deeply engaged in authentic liturgical renewal. He writes regularly for a number of Catholic websites and magazines.

We tend to measure the morality of our behavior against the effects of our actions. The criteria seem reasonable, but some evil actions (such as dishonest stock trading) pay rich rewards. Among the most neglected concepts in Catholic moral theology are intrinsically evil acts that offend God.

An “intrinsically evil act” is evil in itself. Presumed mitigating circumstances and good intentions cannot transform the nature of an intrinsically evil act into a good act. The Church clusters inherently evil acts around the Ten Commandments: blasphemy, murder, adultery, contraception, fornication, theft, lies, and so on. We are quick to notice the intrinsic evil speck in the eye of others but fail to see the intrinsic evil plank in our own eye (to bungle the words of Jesus). …

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