(a) Additions may be made to the Natural Law,for, in many points not determined by it, it is well that supplementaryregulations be made to provide for particular situations. Non-Catholics have not the same right as Catholics to receive therites of the Church, and hence when they are admitted to them, thereare certain restrictions to be observed. Example: Godcannot command the killing of a person who has the right to life, northe taking of property that rightly belongs to another. The person for whom eternal life is hoped may be either oneselfor one's neighbor.
(b) One may, however, sacrifice unnecessary or less necessary spiritualgoods for the benefit, spiritual or temporal, of a nei uld be kept in mind:(a) the greater the evil that results, the greater must be the goodthat is intended. It was 1310, We've gottwenty minutes, he said. BAD HABITS, OR VICESDefinition (167).
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