text: What's heartening to me is that the seeds of a more robustly authentic moral methodology have already been planted within the Church and yielded fruit for the world. Catholic social justice teaching precisely complements a deductive natural law approach with personalism's inductive, relationality-responsibility model. These teachings are considered credible and authoritative and are almost universally esteemed in both religious & secular spheres. As Curran has emphasized, this same methodology holds the key to a more authentic understanding of personal morality.
  
  What's incredibly heartbreaking to me is that when so many in the teaching office so rigoristically hold to positions grounded in such a seriously impoverished moral methodology, it scandalizes both the faithful and secular society who then question their teachings on central creedal matters of the faith. If they are that out of touch regarding human anthropology, why trust them theologically, they wonder? It's tragic.