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Mental Illness, Moral Culpability & the Lindsay Clancy Case | Fr. Francesco Giordano
What can Catholic moral teaching help us understand about the Lindsay Clancy case?
In this episode, Colleen Maxwell speaks with Fr. Francesco Giordano about the Lindsay Clancy trial and the difficult questions it raises about mental illness, moral culpability, human dignity, compassion, and the protection of vulnerable people.
Fr. Giordano explains an important distinction in Catholic moral theology: an objectively evil act is not necessarily identical to a person's subjective culpability. The Catechism of the Catholic Church recognizes that psychological factors can diminish culpability. At…
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