God, Worship & The First 3 Commandments
The most important guidance God gives for the moral life is that He must hold what place in our lives?
What is first place? (or "He must come first in our lives?")
Considered the "original cell of social life," this institution is the basic building block of society.
What is the family?
This group of people in the Church is called to practice the virtue of chastity.
Who is everyone?
This doctrine teaches that God intends the material resources of the earth to sustain all people.
What is the Universal Destination of Goods?
The sin of presuming we can achieve salvation strictly through our own human efforts.
What is presumption?
According to the Catechism, standard human identification serves as this sacred sacred visual or image of the person.
What is a person's name? (The icon of the person)
The family is called a "domestic Church" because it forms a community of faith, hope, and love that echoes this divine relationship.
What is the Trinity? (The communion between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit)
Artificial contraception violates chastity because it denies these two fundamental, God-given purposes of human sexuality within marriage.
What are the unitive and procreative purposes?
Private property rights do not contradict the universal destination of goods because private ownership carries a duty to care for others and generate these for society.
What are goods/food, material resources, and employment?
Intentionally destroying or damaging another person's reputation by telling falsehoods.
What is defamation?
Attempting to control God or divine the future using horoscopes, mediums, or palm readings is known by this term
What is divination?
Legitimate authority in our lives obligates our obedience as long as that authority possesses this quality.
What is just (or morally lawful)?
Rather than altering natural biology, this method works directly with a woman’s body cycles to track fertility.
What is Natural Family Planning (NFP)?
To combat covetous desires, greed, and envy, Christians are called to cultivate this generous spirit.
What is liberality (or generosity)?
The act of giving one's word falsely while under oath.
What is perjury?
Swearing a false oath in God’s name is sinful because it makes God out to be this.
What is a liar?
The Church rejects reproductive technologies like IVF and surrogacy because they commodify children and result in this ethical issue regarding embryos.
What is the storage and death/destruction of multiple human embryos?
Publicly condemning a sin that you secretly commit yourself is known as this sin against the Eighth Commandment.
What is hypocrisy?
Catholic Social Teaching is built on three foundational truths about human beings: we are made in God's image, called to eternal beatitude, and are naturally this type of creature
What is social?
The social virtue that prompts us to dress, act, and speak so that others view us as whole persons rather than sexual objects.
What is modesty?
he Hebrew culture uses this specific number to represent completion or perfection.
What is seven (7)?
Intentional killing of innocent human life is always a grave sin because it fails to recognize human dignity and violates this virtue.
What is justice?
The media carries an obligation toward justice and truth by serving this ultimate societal aim.
What is the common good?
The organizing social principle stating that matters are best handled by the smallest, least centralized authority.
What is subsidiarity?
The expression and cumulative effects of individual personal sins within social institutions and situations.
What is structural sin?