Catholic Social Teaching
Terms / Vocabulary
Discipleship
Tradition
People Pourri
100

This principle focuses on life, from conception to death. 

What is Life and Dignity of the Human Person?

100

From Hebrew the quartet of the vulnerable

What is Anawim?

100

Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, welcoming the stranger etc. 

What are the corporal works of mercy?

100

Pope Leo XIV sees this as the new industrial revolution. 

What is Artificial Intelligence?

100

He is the pioneer of the See-Judge-Act Method

Who is Fr. Cardijn 

200

More than just environmentalism, this principle sees the earth as a member of the human family

What is Care for God's Creation?

200

Legal protection granted by a country to someone fleeing persecution

What is asylum?

200

This leads to change. 

What is detachtment?

200

A Scriptural model used throughout salvation history that shows us that when we forget the poor, we forget God.

What is the cycle of redemption?

200

He supported the farm workers movement but has been discredited because of his violation of the dignity of women and girls. 

Who is Ceasear Chavez?
300

The MN Bishops call on this principle when they ask for families not to be separated during situations of deportation. 

What is Call to Family, Community, and Participation?

300

Someone who has left their home country to escape violence, persecution or war. 

What is a refugee?

300

Communication of one’s heart to God; surrender of one’s will to God

What is prayer?

300

A secular interpretation of the Church's Social Teaching.

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

300

He is the inspiration for our currents Pope's papal name

Who is Leo XIII?

400

This principle connects to the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum

What is Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers?

400

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

What is an immigrant?

400

The ability to hear someone's story, believe them, and be with them

What is empathy?

400

Using scripture and tradition to answer life's questions.

What is thinking theologically?

400

Now a civil rights activist he once wandered the desert and buried his friends as a young boy fleeing Sudan. 

Who is John Bul Dau?


500

This principle acts as a firm, active commitment to the common good, where we recognize our global interdependence and take responsibility for our brothers and sisters

What is Solidarity?

500

Changing systems and meeting long-term needs.

What is justice?

500

Definition of discipleship

What is a journey of spiritual growth? This growth happens as a person comes alongside another to witness to them, learn from them, and be in community with them.

500

Pope Leo XVIII's response to the Industrial Revolution. 

What is Rerum Novarum?

500

Chronicled over 12 years we were able to glimpse poverty in America through their stories

Who are the Poor Kids?

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