Catholic Word of the Day: MATERIALLY EVIL, 08-14-14

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MATERIALLY EVIL

 

Something that is objectively a moral evil, and therefore sinful, but a person does it either without knowing it is wrong, or under duress and without internal consent to the evil.

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Trying to think of some examples.

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**under duress and without internal consent to the evil.**

Could this be true of the young teenager being forced either by parent or boyfriend to seek an abortion? Yet not wanting an abortion or not realizing it is murdering her infant?

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