By DEXTER DUGGAN PHOENIX — Although much is said today about following one’s conscience, the struggle between choosing right or wrong goes right back to Adam and Eve. The Bible “has a lot of stories where people exercise their conscience,” starting with the Garden of Eden, a priest with a recently formed religious order told a gathering of the Catholic Physicians Guild of Phoenix. If people didn’t have free will, they wouldn’t need a conscience to point them toward choosing correctly, said Fr. Ignatius Mazanowski, chaplain to the physicians’ group and director of medical ethics for the Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. His presentation on November 11 lasted nearly an hour and a half in a meeting room at diocesan headquarters. … Continue reading Medical-Ethics Director… Tells Catholic Physicians’ Gathering Of False And True Applications Of Conscience