licitness

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It has run articles discussing the moral licitness of the birth-control pill for Catholics* and has suggested a change in church rules limiting mixed marriages.

From Time Magazine Archive

He tacitly allowed Dr. John Rock, a communicant of the Boston archdiocese, to argue for the moral licitness of a birth-control pill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Evils which a man believes are allowable, though he does not do them, are also appropriated to him, for the licitness in thought is from the will, as there is assent.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.