In re: overpopulation, moral proportionality and Original Sin
The Fathers of the Second Vatican Council arrived at an overwhelming consensus with respect to moral choice and the “evolutionary” worldview (matters “as important as can be”), namely, that a process of “analysis and synthesis” is required, for in matters of conscionable choice the complexity of truth and consequence is such that there are seldom if ever clearly black-and-white answers to moral questions. [Gaudium et spes, Introduction, #5]
The “process of analysis” requires the communication of understandings and the weighing of truthful outcomes pertaining to different choices of action. The “process of synthesis” weighs the moral proportionality of choices and outcomes and compels conscience to choose options whose consequences favor the greater good over alternative options.
The processes of analysis and synthesis are equivalent to processes of communication and consciousness (“trimorphic resonance”); both processes seek the same objective, that is, of coming to greater clarity in matters of the decisions of conscience.
Case in point is the conundrum of overpopulation, ecological destruction, and personal conscience in the matters of population pressures and resource consumption. The Original and Continuing Sin is “overgrazing” the “forbidden fruit” of Middletree Vitality. Upon whom do these matters weigh most heavily? Surely, they weigh most heavily on women and least heavily on celibate males. Over these issues there is too little sensitivity and too much hypocrisy. Church recidivism to mindsets of Vatican I smacks of "error of faith and morals". Vatican II will not go away!
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