Contraception is an "intrinsic evil," too (as is torture).

Moral absolutes may indeed be rare, but the intrinsic evil of the sexual exploitation of children is simply non-negotiable for the human race.

Church teaching holds that abortion, even in cases of rape or incest, is an "intrinsic evil."

Nor does he find that categories like "unnatural" or "intrinsic evil," meant to sort out the immutable from the mutable, make solid sense of past changes.

The letter appeared to harden the church's stand against homosexuality, saying the mere "inclination" was "a more or less strong tendency ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil."

Within Roman Catholicism, the discussion of intrinsic evils has recently focused on abortion and euthanasia.

And, in language that demonstrators said yesterday that they found most offensive, he wrote that homosexuality was "ordered toward an intrinsic moral evil."

But if the issue is the intrinsic evil of the entire project, it still seems no contest.

The only intrinsic evil is lack of love.

Why did she keep forgetting the intrinsic evil of these people?