What conservative Catholics continue to call as "immoral" is the simple admission that human suffering is wrong and that we should do everything in our power to prevent it.
If there was any branch of science that could have ever vindicated the doctrine of vitalism (the belief that something nonphysical is the force behind the phenomenon of life), it would have been molecular biology and its study of the genetic and chemical underpinnings of life.
If the Catholic Church is indeed the sole keeper of the truth as it pertains to the mystery of the supernatural, though I contend that they are not, their pronouncements reflect the desires of the creator of the universe himself. From this, we must understand that Catholics are simply not allowed the freedom to pick and choose which of God's commandments to follow.
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