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[ noun ] a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

Synonyms

law

Used in print

(The Rev. John A. O'Brien, "Let's Take Birth Control...)

The grounds for the Church 's position are Scriptural ( Old_Testament ) , the teachings of the fathers and doctors of the early Church , the unbroken tradition of nineteen centuries , the decisions of the highest ecclesiastical authority and the natural_law .

The Roman_Catholic natural-law tradition regards as self-evident that the primary objective purpose of the conjugal act is procreation and that the fostering of the mutual love of the spouses is the secondary and subjective end .

(Morton A. Kaplan and Nicholas de B. Katzenbach,...)

Of_course it had always been of European origin in_fact , but it had maintained a universal outlook under the natural_law theory .

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