Prummer Reading 2

Question 1

What are the causes of the Lax Conscience?

Answer 1

bad education, evil company, violent disorderely passions (cloud intellect), life of vice (causes spiritual blindness or shortsightedness)

Question 2

What are remdies for Lax Conscience?

Answer 2

prayer to God, sacramental confession, removal of causes of laxity

Question 3

What is the rule which should be followed regarding a perpelxed conscience?

Answer 3

if able to suspend action or seek adivce do so, if not then he should choose that which seems to him the less of two evils, if can’t do this than he is free to decide either to act or omit an action

Question 4

Why can we decide to act or omit to act?

Answer 4

no one is obliged by the impossible and no one commits sin under force

Question 5

What is the opposite of the scrupulous conscience?

Answer 5

tender conscience (carefully avoids all sin)

Question 6

What are the signs of scrupulous conscience?

Answer 6

excessive anxiety about previous confessions, protracted accusations of irrevelant details, stubborness which refuses to accept the decisions of the confessor

Question 7

What are the causes of a scrupulous conscience?

Answer 7

rarely, but supernatural (God or devil). Frequently: natural or moral i.e. excessive avoidance of human company, conversation w/ timorous persons, hidden pride AND physical: pathological condition

Question 8

What are the remedies for scruples?

Answer 8

removal of causes, perfect obedience, healthy recreation and manual or spiritual work to distract the mind from the scrupulous thouhgts, fervent and assiduous prayer