Lesson Eight in Principles of the Moral Life, with Fr Thomas Petri, OP, BA, STB, STL, STD, Assistant Professor of Moral Theology and Pastoral Studies and President of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception.
Vice is the condition Saint Paul was referring to when he said, "I do not do the good that I want to do, but I do the very evil that I hate." (Romans 7:19) Saint Thomas does not think that vice can coexist with grace. Yet, if you have a vice and have come to believe in the incarnation of Jesus Christ and his suffering, death and resurrection, then you have come to believe in the abundant mercy of God.
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