Terms and Definitions
Social Teaching in the Church and the Bible
General Social Teaching
Specific Social Teaching
Random Trivia Questions
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the good that is collectively shared and that is beneficial for all members of a community

What is common good?

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This demands the use of honest scales in transactions

What is the Old Law?

100

The primary community

What is the family?

100

Social structures that act as a barrier to the common good

What are structures of sin?

100

The year the first Harry Potter book was published

What is 1997?
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the  responsible management of something that has been entrusted to a person’s care

What is stewardship?

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The first social encyclical

What is Rerum Novarum?

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Every sin is the result of a person’s free choice to offend God and reason

What is the personal dimension of sin?

200

The specific group of the state's responsibilities to ensure laws are fairly enforced

What are judicial responsibilities?

200

This gas filled the Hindenburg airship

What is Hydrogen?

300

a teaching letter from the Pope on topics of social justice, human rights, and peace

What is a social encyclical?

300

Christ founded this as the means and the goal of his saving mission.

What is the Church?

300

The doctrine that God exists as three persons which reveals the fact that humans are meant to live in society

What is the Trinity?

300

This key of stewardship reveals the goodness of God in a visible and tangible way

What is the sacramental universe?

300
This state invented chocolate-chip cookies

What is Massachusetts?

400

this calls for fairness in agreements and contracts between individuals

What is commutative justice?

400

the state of being in right relationship with God and with other human beings

What is biblical justice?

400

The collective effort of many people’s sins over time

What is social sin?

400

The way creation’s interdependent relationships fit together as a whole

What is the integrity of creation?

400

The location of the Arch of Hadrian

What is Athens?

500

the social responsibilities that citizens owe their country and society

What is legal justice?

500

The document that states the primary reason for the state is the common good

What is Pacem in Terris?

500

The asking of questions in order to choose the best methods of attacking a social injustice

What is analysis?

500
This allows the Church to preach, to provide public worship, and to determine its structure

What are the Church's rights?

500

The world's first successful vaccine was developed to treat this disease

What is smallpox?

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