Column 1
Justice in exchanges between individuals or parties.
Commutative Justice
The first Catholic social encyclical written in 1891 during the Industrial Revolution.
Rerum Novarum
The principle that problems should be solved at the most local level possible.
Subsidiarity.
The dimension of work that deals with the person doing the work (instead of their tools, their results, etc.).
The subjective dimension of work
This type of action helps people in the short-term (an example might be to give out socks to people living on the street).
Charity.
A city wants to ensure that all neighborhoods have access to important resources like grocery stores. What type of justice is this?
Distributive Justice.
An obstacle to the common good in which a person benefits from the common good but does not contribute to its maintenance.
Free-riders.
Social Sin.
A principle of Catholic Social Teaching that emphasizes that we are one human family and that our lives are interwoven with all people.
Solidarity.
An economic system (that Catholicism opposes) in which a government controls society's resources.
Socialism.
This "ism" encourages us to buy more than we need in a constant search for fulfillment.
Consumerism.
Solidarity is a moral ________ because it involves the practice of concrete actions.
Virtue.
Many say that this is the most fundamental theme of Catholic Social Teaching without which none of the other can exist.
The Life and Dignity of the Human Person.
John Paul II calls a society that values sacrifice, that ties freedom to responsibility, and that affords each person inherent value a ____________.
Culture of Life.
The principle that each person is a unique and unreplaceable individual with inherent value is called the ___________ norm in Catholic Ethics.
Personalistic norm.
This Latin term means "justice in the conduct of war."
Jus in Bello
This ethical law within Catholicism allows a woman to undergo treatment for a health problem that might indirectly end a pregnancy.
The Principle of Double Effect.
This principle of Catholic Social Teaching states that a basic moral test of a society is how those at the bottom of the economy are doing.
The Option for the Poor and Vulnerable.
Certain parents reject laws that try to governtheir decision to use gene editing on their embryos. This is a ___ right because the parents claim the right to non-interference from others.
A negative right.
This Latin term means "justice in the decision to go to war."
Jus Ad Bellum.
In Just War Theory, a nation must ask if the damage done by war will be worth the good that will result. This is the principle of _______.
Propotionality.
In 2026, the US accidentally bombed an elementary school in Iran due to incorrect intelligence. Doing so most closely violated which principle of Just War Theory?
Immunity of Non-Combatants.
If a country has a just cause for entering a war but their primary goal is to gather rare earth elements from the combatant nation rather than to create peace, they have violated which principle of Just War Theory?
Right Intention.
If a nation with no army goes up against a global superpower in warfare, they may be violating this principle of Just War Theory.
The Probability of Success.
When President Obama peacefully negotiated the Iran Nuclear Deal instead of engaging in direct war, he was following this principle of Just War Theory.
War as a Last Resort.