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- 1. the branch of theology that deals with ethics: "bioethics is a field of growing interest in moral theology"
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Major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics
Catholic moral theology is a major category of doctrine in the Catholic Church, equivalent to a religious ethics. Moral theology encompasses Catholic social teaching, Catholic medical ethics, sexual ethics, and various doctrines on individual moral virtue and moral theory. It can be distinguished as dealing with "how one is to act", in contrast to dogmatic theology which proposes "what one is to b... Wikipedia