It is not true that a bad person “has no conscience.” He has a conscience, but not everyone’s conscience reflects the same values. Your conscience is trained by what you believe, and it changes as ...

In other words, in most people conscience is a euphemism for feelings, another word for the "heart." So then, given the general uselessness of the "conscience," how is one to be morally guided?

Authentic conscience governs — passes judgment on — feelings and desires; it is not reducible to them, and it is not in the business of licensing us to act on them.

The progressive conscience Conscience is at the heart of progressivism because conscience is not just a feeling but a palpable urge toward improvement—a call to action or engagement.

Pope Francis clearly believes there are few, if any, simple “recipes” for what following a formed and informed conscience looks like.

Acts of conscience sometimes cause or support the same harm as the situation being protested. And such harmful acts of conscience are incredibly sticky, being nearly impossible to reverse.