A great many people argue that there are no intrinsically evil acts. The problem became so serious that 30 years ago this year, Pope John Paul II issued the encyclical Veritatis Splendor, which took aim at those theories which sought, one way or another, to eliminate the idea of exceptionless moral norms. The encyclical noted with alarm that such theories were being propounded “even in Seminaries and Faculties of Theology.”