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In this article, the writer looks at Catholic moral teaching, especially as laid down by Pope John Paul II in Evangelium Vitae. The writer maintains that the imperfect moral relativism that pervades American culture must be challenged by these teachings.

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"Moral relativism has the unusual distinction - both within philosophy and outside it - of being attributed to others almost always as a criticism far more often than it is explicitly professed by anyone. Relativism is a philosophical position in which one asserts that there are no absolute truths. Moral relativism refines this to say that one's moral viewpoint is dependent on one's cultural worldview. In theory its opposite ..."

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