Conscience: Still the aboriginal Vicar of Christ, now for adults | National Catholic Reporter

Conscience: Still the aboriginal Vicar of Christ, now for adults | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Sometimes conscience speaks to us and tells us that what the bishop's say is wrong. It was Huck Finn escaping with Jim, even though that is stealing and saying "OK, then I'll go to Hell" when he was actually, in the story, following his conscience. In the end, morals and conscience must highlight what is natural and human for the individual person - how they can be the best human being they can possibly be - including the gay ones. Woe to the prelates, like Chaput, who ignore the pricks of their own conscience to uphold established teaching which is unconzcionable.