Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk on Refusing to Cooperate in Evil

"Significant moral issues can arise if we knowingly cooperate in another's evil actions, even though we don't perform those evil actions ourselves. Some helpful 'principles of cooperation' have been developed over the centuries in the Catholic moral tradition as a way of discerning how properly to avoid, limit, or distance ourselves from evil, especially intrinsically evil actions. In particular, these principles enable us to recognize that there are certain real-life situations when we must refuse to cooperate."

This paragraph is from a recent commentary in the Boston Pilot by Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a priest of the diocese of Fall River who serves as the Director of Education at the National Catholic Bioethics Center.

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 Boston Pilot: The courage to refuse to cooperate in evil (8 APR 11)