MGB:_Actually, Jesus rests His head where our consciences are unclean. He comes to call sinners, not the saved. Knowing that you are a sinner makes you welcome to hear his voice. Thinking you are fine is the problem. That does not mean, however, that we must listen to those who would damn an action, like contraception, that is evil. Reaon, not conscience, controls that dialogue and it is still God given. Neither can we run from God when the pain is too great, as the Europeans have done or as some have done when they regret an abortion (which is a personal matter, not one for law enforcement). Again, if someone needs an abortion to survive, it is reason, not conscience, that informs everyone involved.
On divorce, people know then getting divorced is just another way of being promiscuous. It is far different than divorcing someone who is hurting you and then hoping to love again. Concience hear pricks the person abandoned and the spouse who hurt the other, not the one who has no fault, whose requriement of conscience is to forgive (for their own sake). As for the Church, it can suggest. It cannot demand. And as we have seen, sometimes it suggests wrong.
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