A matter of conscience? (2)

Gozo Bishop Mario Grech’s article (The Sunday Times, September 5) about how Catholics should act in accordance with their conscience was remarkable in that it contained a perfect negation of the original premise.

This was done by adding the reasonable limitation that the conscience should be well informed and the (unreasonable) definition of what constitutes a well-informed conscience.

The only well informed conscience is the one that makes you act in accordance with Catholic doctrine! Thus, the American nun who followed her conscience and allowed an abortion to be performed in her hospital because the pregnant woman would have surely died without it, was severely reprimanded for following a faulty conscience. Thus the Maltese MPs that want to vote for divorce are declared sinners, for following their ill informed, faulty consciences.

This reminds me of Henry Ford, who famously said about his cars: “You may have any colour you want, as long as it is black.”