{"id":278,"date":"2007-11-14T09:47:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T09:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/stop-me.html"},"modified":"2007-11-14T09:47:23","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T09:47:23","slug":"stop-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/11\/stop-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Stop me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have work to do, so I shouldn&#8217;t have really clicked on EWTN&#8217;s live feed of the USCCB. Because I did, and instead of the boring stuff I expected to hear, I catch Bishop Aquila of Fargo exhorting the body, in the discussion on the <em>Faithful Citizenship <\/em>document to replace language referring to &#8220;spiritual well-being&#8221; with &#8220;salvation&#8221;. Why? He says simply because it is the language of the Church and when one chooses intrinsic evil, such a choice does impact the state of one&#8217;s soul. Bishop Morlino of\u00a0Madison is now speaking in support of Aquila, saying that too many of us have a mistaken notice of &#8220;conscience.&#8221; His point is that if conscience is a center point of the document, it should be clear what proper use of conscience means and what is at stake &#8211; salvation. Now Archbishop Lipscomb of Mobile\u00a0is also speaking in support &#8211; if a choice for intrisic evil is made, the consequences of that should be laid out clearly.<br \/>\nBishop DiMarzio (in charge) argues that they didn&#8217;t want to give the impression that one vote would put someone&#8217;s immortal soul in danger&#8230;<br \/>\n\u00a0Voice vote was inconclusive, they&#8217;re going to their &#8220;clickers&#8221; (as they called them.) Let&#8217;s see what happens:<br \/>\nAmendment failed, but by a close vote: 51-48. 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