The phrase "a case of conscience" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a moral dilemma or a situation that raises ethical questions.
Example: "The decision to report the incident became a case of conscience for her, as she weighed the potential consequences of her actions."
Alternatives: "moral dilemma" or "ethical quandary".
Following his departure, his supporters presented the court with a petition signed by more than forty people challenging the court's right to try a case of conscience before it was heard by the church.
After Quinn dismissed Fairman and engaged Larry Shaw, the magazine improved significantly, and published several well-received stories, including James Blish's "A Case of Conscience" in the September 1953 issue, later to become the first part of Blish's Hugo Award-winning novel of the same name, about a Jesuit priest on a planet of aliens who have no religion but appear free of sin.
Many Catholics agreed that this was a case of violation of conscience and protested.
To see all three actors play Bobby Gould, a Hollywood studio chief who inconveniently catches a slight case of conscience, was to appreciate depth in a character that had seemed profoundly shallow.
Rather, the Vatican says contraception can be "the object of discernment in a serious case of conscience".
The Queens Museum of Art's new exhibit "This Case of Conscience: Spiritual Flushing and the Remonstrance" displays the original document, along with the reflections of nine contemporary artists on the subject of religious freedom.
'THIS CASE OF CONSCIENCE: SPIRITUAL FLUSHING AND THE REMONSTRANCE,' featuring the document and artwork and photographs inspired by religious life in Flushing, will be on view through June 29 at the Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
It is simply not a case of coming clean just to clear his conscience.
"The Wonders of the Invisible World" soon slipped into print, followed by Increase Mather's "Cases of Conscience," both artfully postdated to 1693.
The Jansenists, who held that in doubtful cases of conscience one should follow the safer view i.e., against permissibility (tutiorism, rigorism)—attacked the benignity of the Jesuit confessors as leading to laxity of morals.
Some are examples taken from Scripture, others we might call scholastic "thought experiments," but most of them are accompanied by cases of conscience.
