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Truly Becoming Ourselves, by Stephen P. White – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma (The Choice Between Virtue and Vice) by Frans Francken the Younger, 1633 [Museum of Fine Arts Boston]

By Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, July 10, 2025

Stephen P. White is executive director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Human beings, having a rational nature, are free to choose between good and evil. This freedom constitutes, in the words of Pope Leo XIII, “the highest of natural endowments.” We are not only free to choose between good and evil, but we are also responsible for those choices. We are responsible for the intentions by which we act, for the actions themselves, and, to some degree, for the consequences of those actions.

Our laws account for all three of these facets of moral action, which is why we distinguish, for example, between murder and manslaughter in criminal cases, and sometimes award damages in wrongful death cases even if no criminal offense was proven. ….

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