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Sep 7, 2023 · In Catholic moral theology, there are two types of ignorance to grasp: vincible and invincible. Both play a role in determining a person’s moral responsibility for their actions. Here’s a breakdown to help you understand these concepts in everyday terms!
Jul 1, 1999 · Vincible ignorance may affect one’s culpability for a sinful act, depending on the kind of vincibility. If some insufficient diligence was shown toward finding the answer, then the ignorance is termed merely vincible. If little or no diligence was shown, the ignorance is termed crass or supine.
Sep 13, 2021 · This ignorance—“through no fault of their own”—is what the Catechism means by invincible ignorance. Understood properly, this is what Catholics have always believed, and what Scripture plainly teaches. But it’s possible to misunderstand the teaching in two serious (and dangerous) ways.
- Joe Heschmeyer
Ignorance of law, when one is unaware of the existence of the law itself, or at least that a particular case is comprised under its provisions. Ignorance of the fact, when not the relation of something to the law but the thing itself or some circumstance is unknown.
Dec 5, 2022 · Everyone has been given something (at least the principles of moral law), and we will be judged based on what we know or should have known, not on what we didn’t know. Knowing the demands of the gospel means that you can’t claim “ignorance” of them on the Last Day.
- Joe Heschmeyer
Moralists make a distinction between ignorance that cannot be overcome and ignorance that can be eliminated with minimal effort. The former is called "invincible ignorance"; the latter is called "vincible ignorance".
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IGNORANCE OF LAW. Lack of knowledge of some provision of law, civil or ecclesiastical, of its meaning or application in a given case.
