Progress report on a work in progress
Austin, Nicholas
Progress report on a work in progress - 2023.
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The ethics of mercy in the Church’s response to ecclesial sex abuse risks reinforcing injustice towards those who have suffered. This essay examines the integral relationship between the virtues of mercy and justice by an examination of Thomas Aquinas’s account. On this basis, it develops a theological, scriptural, and ethical argument that a so-called mercy that bypasses justice is not a true virtue, but a cheap, counterfeit mercy. Only an ethic of just mercy is able to motivate and guide the Church’s response to ecclesial sex abuse and the needed institutional reform.
Progress report on a work in progress - 2023.
71
The ethics of mercy in the Church’s response to ecclesial sex abuse risks reinforcing injustice towards those who have suffered. This essay examines the integral relationship between the virtues of mercy and justice by an examination of Thomas Aquinas’s account. On this basis, it develops a theological, scriptural, and ethical argument that a so-called mercy that bypasses justice is not a true virtue, but a cheap, counterfeit mercy. Only an ethic of just mercy is able to motivate and guide the Church’s response to ecclesial sex abuse and the needed institutional reform.
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