“Conscientious objection is not the only aspiration of the Christian conscience in the area of health care”: it was said by mgr. Sgreccia. “First and foremost, conscience demands positive testimony in serving, in love, in the veneration of every brother’s life. Before a culprit, Christians known in their conscience that a person is more than its deviant deed or its bewilderment. The Christian is not allowed to ignore the difference between the sin, which is to be prevented, avoided and remedied, and the sinner, who is to be helped”. Mgr. Anthony Fisher, auxiliary bishop of Sidney and professor of bioethics and morel theology at the Istituto “Giovanni Paolo II” of his city, in mentioning "an important lecture of the then Cardinal Ratzinger on "Conscience and Truth" underlined "the dangers of a canonisation of subjectivity”: "In the face of the continuing division on conscience and moral authority, I identify two helpful strands of contemporary thought: the ‘communitarian’ call to think with one’s moral community and the ‘practical reason’ approaches to maturation of conscience. On these views the magisterium is not some external source of moral thinking with which private conscience must grapple: it informs conscience much like a soul informs a body".
