Vocabulary 1
Treating people of a different race without the full respect their equal dignity requires.
Racism.
All human life is sacred from conception to natural death.
Life and Dignity of the Human Person
This theme focuses on the common good.
Solidarity.
Human work has a sacred dignity that must be respected.
Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
The belief that war, especially nuclear war, can be prevented through the ability to respond to a military attack with a devastating counterattack.
Deterrence
The Church's living teaching office, which consists of all bishops, in communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome.
Magisterium
All human beings are social creatures, created by God to live in fellowship and community.
The Call to Family, Community, and Participation.
Fair trade is an important concept in this theme.
Preferential Option for the Poor.
A spirit of friendship and true community-between individuals, groups, and nations- is the basis for a just world.
Solidarity
A habitual and firm disposition to do good.
Virtue
The cardinal virtue concerned with the rights and duties within relationships.
Justice
God created every person with equal dignity and value. Because of this, every human being has the right to the things necessary to live a dignified life.
Responsibilities and Rights
This theme rejects the use of genetic engineering to manipulate human life.
Life and Dignity of the Human Person
Our responsibility to care for the earth.
Care for God's creation
The 4 virtues that are viewed as pivotal or essential for full Christian living.
Cardinal virtues
The social responsibilities that citizens owe their country and society.
Legal Justice
This theme involves freely choosing to become friends or partners with those who are poor and taking on their problems as our problems.
The Preferential Option for the Poor
This theme includes the right to worship God according to our conscience and to practice our religion both privately and publicly.
Rights and Responsibilities
With God's grace at work through human beings, all creation is destined to give glory to God once again.
Care for God's Creation.
An organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries to obtain living wages for their labor.
Fair Trade
Union of one's heart and mind with all people.
Solidarity.
This theme involves a commitment to take action to transform any injustices that prevent them from realizing their God-given dignity.
The Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable.
This theme calls us to commit oneself to the common good.
Solidarity
This theme can be seen through the work of the Smart Growth Community Land Trust Homeownership Program.
Call to Family, Community, and Participation.
The careful and responsible management of someone or something that has been entrusted to a person's care.
Stewardship