Top Highlights

• Acts are morally permissible (licit) only in so far as they are capable of being ordered toward God as our final end and highest good.
• The will of the human person is responsible before God for choosing to do good, and to refrain from doing evil. Therefore, neither a good intention or purpose, nor a difficult circumstance can justify such a choice.
• Neither circumstances nor intention change the nature of the chosen act from evil to good.
• When we apply these principles to marital sexual ethics, we must evaluate each knowing deliberate choice, based on intention, object, and circumstances.