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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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RIGORISM

The moral theory that when there is a conflict of two opinions, one favoring the law and the other favoring liberty, the law must always be kept even if the opinion favoring liberty is more probable. Absolute rigorism, or tutiorism, taught by the Jansenists, was condemned by Pope Alexander VIII in 1690 (Denzinger 2303).

See Also: ABSOLUTE TUTIORISM
Sun20 September
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Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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Excerpt from Sunday's Gospel: When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.' When those who had started about five o'clock came, each received the usual daily wage. So when the first came,…

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