The Errant Priest...

"One of the key pastoral problems facing us is the widespread misunderstanding of the role of conscience, whereby individual conscience and experience are exalted above or against Church teaching. The young women and men of America, and indeed of the whole Western world, who are often victims of educational theories which propose that they 'create' their own values and that 'feeling good about themselves' is a primary guiding moral principle, are asking to be led out of this moral confusion."--Pope John Paul II, Ad Limina Address to Bishops from New England, September 21, 1993;The Wisdom of John Paul II [1995], p. 44.