The Importance Of Morality In The Council Of Trent

This composition is to identify the changes that have taken place pertaining to morality within the Catholic Church since the Council of Trent. As a summary, hopefully it will enlighten how we can look at and approach morality and intertwine spirituality with the unique style Father Richard Gula uses to corroborate his thesis. Father Richard Gula points out that since the Council of Trent (1545-1563), morality was more in assisting the priest in the confessionals as to determining the moral thinking to determine which actions were sins or not and to resolving the conflicts of obligations according to the objective principles of natural law. Although there was a shifting of ideology prior to Vatican II, lead by the work of Bernard Haring, The Second Vatican Council called to a radical revision of the classical moral theology of the western Catholicism. Father Richard Gula notes in his thesis that morality without spirituality is rootless; spirituality without morality is disembodied. Father Gula identifies three keys of …show more content…
What stems from these dynamics is prudence in which our closeness to God creates virtues where we try to live out a life centered on God. Similar to one being in the early stages of military boot camp, our moral formation is enriched and forges our intentions with goodness. Our spiritual and moral life is fueled through the relationship we acknowledge we have with a God who loves us in spite of our human weaknesses and sinfulness. God gave us Jesus so that we can imitate Jesus on the path that leads us home, we can’t separate spirituality and morality. Spirituality is the stimulator that makes our moral life grow. We become transformed from a materialistic world and discover a spiritual world from which we came from. We become an outward instrument promoting the well being of the persons and