Reactions: hierarch; moral theologians; others. (papal encyclical, 'Veritatis Splendor')

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: October 15, 1993 | Copyright information

Archbishop J. Francis Stafford

Denver

"The encyclical is an outstanding contemporary presentation of the Catholic natural-law approach to moral reason. Among other themes in its truly symphonic treatment of the basis for public and private morality, the Holy Father helps us discern the |oughts' of our lives by reason. The public square of our democracies no longer need be empty.'

Cardinal George Basil Hume

Westminster, Engla...

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