Comments for John Paul II: The Moral Life at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 04:57:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/john-paul-ii-the-moral-life.html#comment-13984 Father, I was struck by the quote you include from the encyclical: "The question: ‘Teacher, what good must I do to have eternal life?’ arises in the heart of every individual" It often seems to me that today there are many people who never seem to ask this question! I know so many people (friends and relatives who are just oblivious to this central question of existence or even to the thought that there is something more than our life here. At least that's the way it seems from the outside. What JP II said makes sense but i wonder why so few seem concerned or seem to concern themselves with thinking about it? - Louise Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:45:53 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/john-paul-ii-the-moral-life.html#comment-13983 Thank you for recalling the issuance of this very important encyclical. When it came out I was studying moral theology and one of my professors had had Fr. Curran as his doctoral advisor. Needless to say what he was teaching was out-and-out proportionalism. Several of us in class argued against this non-traditional interpretation of St Thomas Aquinas' moral theology. We were treated as ignoramuses, clinging to an out-moded "manualist" approach which had been swept away by the new proportionalism (or so we were being taught). Three or four of us stuck to the traditional interpretation. We thought we'd fail the course for certain. Then "Splendor Veritatis" came out sometime just after the midterm exam. It changed everything. In that encyclical, the Holy Father John Paul II, vindicated the traditional approach and put paid to proportionalism as a mainstream approach to Roman Catholic moral theology. It still exists, lurking in the syllabi of older moral theology professors, like my old professor (now retired from teaching, thank God). But it is such a non-issue these days that I bet that most of the readers of The Catholic Thing will not know what I am talking about. Do I need to say that all three of us got A's in the class? Hooray for John Paul II and hooray for " Veritatis Splendor"! - G.K. Thursday Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:48:44 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/john-paul-ii-the-moral-life.html#comment-13982 Fr. Bramwell, this is an absolutely beautiful meditation. I suppose that people are not commenting because there is nothing, really, any of us can add to it. Thank you very much. - Dave Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:33:26 +0100