Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro explains St. Alphonsus Marie de Liguori’s teaching and moral theology. Jansenist rigorists caused many problems for Catholic moral teachers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. St. Alphonsus’ teaching was, as Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro demonstrates, a breathe of much needed fresh air. Liguori’s balanced moral theology went on to become the basis for future Catholic guidance of penitents. Taken from Regalism, Revolution, the Reign of Terror and the Assault on Catholicism (1648-1799) – 1998 VonHildebrand Institute