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Intrinsic evil
Jimmy Akin, NC Register
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Human beings are good at producing rationalizations for why it’s okay for them to do things that are not good and may be known to be not good. But the Church – and common sense – teach that there are things malum in se, “wrong in themselves” or to put it colloquially, just plain wrong.