God is Love
This is 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 is a habitual and firm disposition to do good.
What is a virtue?
This commandment forbids idolatry, occultism, and ultimately suggests that, "it is futile looking to" anything other than God "for our rescue 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 teaching office of the Church; comprised of the bishops of the Church, it is the authentic interpreter of Scripture and Tradition.
What is the Magisterium?
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 the power to act freely in the pursuit of perfection.
What is Freedom for (i.e. Freedom for excellence)?
This is an act that weakens or wounds one's relationship with God.
What is venial 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.")
The word, "magisterium," comes from the Latin word, "magister," meaning this.
What is 'teacher' or 'master'?
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'?
From a Catholic perspective, of the two types of human freedom, this best represents freedom in a true sense.
What is Freedom for (i.e. Freedom for excellence)?
This is an act that destroys one's relationship with God.
What is mortal sin?
This commandment encourages the faithful to pursue Chastity as a means of "successful integration of sexuality within the person;" 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 ongoing development of the Church's understanding of the mystery of revelation (within which stands the Word of God).
What is 'Tradition'?
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 Parable of Jesus describes God's mercy for man, regardless of his sin.
What is 'The Parable of the Prodigal Son'?
This is a conscience that has been wrongly formed.
What is an erroneous (or malformed) conscience?
This commandment demands a respect for "the goods of people...because these 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.”)
The Magisterium of the Church exercises part of its prophetic office by proclaiming to men what they truly are and reminding them of what they should be before God.
Accordingly, the Church claims authority not only to interpret Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition, but also this.
What is the Natural Law?
This is a medical procedure that 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)
These three images of God are incomplete in explaining His relationship with us since it makes Him to be impersonal.
What are the images of being distant, a lawgiver, and a judge?
These are the four "moments" of conscience.
What are the "moments" of desiring and knowing the good, discerning the particular good, making a judgment, and self-evaluation.
This commandment explicitly forbids the sin of lying and directs the faithful towards conformity to the truth.
What is the Eighth Commandment (i.e. “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.”)
This refers to the authority with which a teaching is proclaimed and affirms that the teaching office of the Church cannot err when it teaches in a certain way in the area of faith and morals.
What is 'Infallibility'?
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?