God is Love
This is Latin for, ‘Exit and return;’ it means that just as God created man, man’s ultimate destiny is to return to God.
What is 'Exitus et Reditus.'
This is the disastrous fallen state of mankind, inherited from our first parents (Adam and Eve), into which each individual is born.
What is Original Sin?
This commandment forbids idolatry, occultism, and ultimately looking to anything other than God for our fulfillment and salvation.
What is the First Commandment? (i.e. "I AM the LORD your God...you shall have no other gods before me.")
This is the state of everlasting life in which the blessed see God, become like Him in glory, and enjoy eternal happiness.
What is Heaven?
These are the two ends (or aims) of marriage and the marital/conjugal act.
What are the two ends of:
(i) the procreation and education of offspring.
–AND–
(ii) the unitive aspect of marital love directed towards the support of the married couple.
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This is a Latin term which speaks to humans reflecting God in their capacity for knowledge, freedom, and love.
What is the 'Imago Dei?'
This type of sin destroys one's relationship with God.
What is mortal sin?
This commandment expresses the honor and obedience that is due to parents from their children.
What is the Fourth Commandment? (i.e. "Honor your father and your mother.")
This is the cessation of the bodily functions of a human being through the departure of the soul. (i.e. When the soul leaves the body.)
What is death?
The Church says that Assisted Reproductive Technologies may be acceptable, when they _______ rather than _______ the conjugal act.
What is assist rather than replace the conjugal act?
This type of freedom speaks to the power to choose between two contraries, usually between good and evil.
What is Freedom from (i.e. Freedom from restrictions, or, Freedom of Indifference)?
This type of sin weakens or wounds one's relationship with God.
What is venial sin?
This commandment encourages the faithful to pursue chastity; while it explicitly relates to married life, it also forbids sexual sin more broadly.
What it the Sixth Commandment (i.e. “You shall not commit adultery.”)
This is the eternal self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed of Heaven.
What is Hell?
This is a medical procedure that the Church opposes as it fuses sperm and egg in a lab environment to conceive a child outside of the sexual act. The live embryo is then later implanted into a uterus to continue developing until birth.
What is In-Vitro Fertilization? (i.e. IVF)
This type of freedom speaks to the power to act freely in the pursuit of perfection.
What is Freedom for (i.e. Freedom for excellence)?
This is a habitual and firm disposition to do good.
What is a virtue?
This commandment demands a respect for the goods of people, because those goods bring a security to human life that is often threatened by poverty and violence.
What is the Seventh Commandment? (i.e. “You shall not steal.”)
This is a state of final purification after death and before entrance into Heaven for those who died in God’s friendship, but were only imperfectly purified.
What is Purgatory?
This is an umbrella term used to describe different technologies that either create (outside of the womb) or assist in the reproduction of a new life.
What are 'Assisted Reproductive Technologies'?
This Parable of Jesus describes God's mercy for man, regardless of his sin, in talking about a relationship between family members.
What is 'The Parable of the Prodigal Son'?
This is a conscience that has been wrongly formed.
What is a malformed (or erroneous) conscience?
This commandment explicitly forbids the sin of lying and directs the faithful towards harmony with the truth.
What is the Eighth Commandment (i.e. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”)
These are the final events that pertain to the destiny of humanity and the culmination of history.
What are the Last Things?
This procedure re-locates the ovum by placing it into the fallopian tube below the point of damage so that sperm, through the conjugal act, can reach it and bring about fertilization.
What is Low-Tubal Ovum Transfer?