Vatican City, Aug 9, 2018 / 12:01 pm
In an interview with Vatican News marking the 25th anniversary of St. John Paul II's encyclical Veritatis splendor, Archbishop Salvatore Rino Fisichella said that "the magisterium must never be used instrumentally to place a contrast in the development of the doctrine."
Veritatis splendor, written on some fundamental questions of the Church's moral doctrine, encouraged a renewal of moral theology and taught that there are intrinsically evil acts, that absolute truths exist across various cultures. It also urged sharp caution against moral relativism and the misuse of conscience to justify false or subjective morals.
Archbishop Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, stated that "when we speak about the truth, we must always have a dynamic concept."
"The truth is not a 'fixistic' dimension. The truth, for the Christian, is first of all that living Word that the Lord has left us. Let us not forget Jesus who says: 'I am the way, the truth and the life'," the archbishop said.