Let your conscience be your guide

The 1500s were tumultuous. But sometimes difficult times lead to amazing spiritual growth. When Henry VIII divorced his wife Catherine in favor of Anne Boleyn, and when the requested annulment was denied, St. Thomas More was caught in the middle. St. Thomas and many others were made to offer a public approval of the new and invalid marriage, yet he and a handful of others (including St. John Fisher, the bishop of Rochester at the time) could not in good conscience do so. This resulted in a trial for treason and a sentence of death. Who would challenge that one's conscience ought to be followed? That said, we have to be careful that our consciences, our interior moral guides, are properly formed.