Key Concepts
Explain the difference between euthanasia and assisted suicide
Euthanasia is death caused directly by a doctor administering lethal drugs. Assisted suicide is death caused by a patient taking lethal drugs prescribed by a doctor.
How can you practice care for creation in your daily life?
Recycle, reduce the use of resources, reuse common household items, purchase eco-friendly items
Born in Peru to a Spanish father and a freed slave of African descent, this saint was a lay Dominican. He cared for the sick in the monastery infirmary. As a person of mixed race, he was often persecuted. He offered all of the ridicule up to God as a sacrifice.
St. Martin de Porres
Governs exchanges between individuals & private groups
Commutative Justice
First Principle of Catholic Social Teaching
Life and Dignity of the Human Person
Explain the elements of the SLED argument
Size
Level of Development
Environment
Dependency
Identify two fundamental human rights
1. Right to Life
2. Moral & Cultural Rights
3. Right to Worship God
4. Right to Choose Freely One's State of Life
5. Economic Rights
6. Right of Meeting & Association
7. Right to Emigrate & Immigrate
8. Political Rights
addresses specific attacks against human life, such as abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment
Evangelium Vitae (St. John Paul II, 1995)
Governs what the greater community owes individuals based on their contributions and needs
Distributive Justice
Second Principle of Catholic Social Teaching
Call to family, Community, and Participation
Explain the difference between embryonic and adult stem cell research. Which is morally acceptable and why?
Embryonic stem cell research depends on the destruction of human embryos which is a violation of human dignity and morally unacceptable. Adult stem cell research uses adult stem cells for scientific purposes and is morally acceptable because it does not involve the killing of a human being.
List two rights of workers
1. Just Wage
2. Rest
3. Safe Workplace
4. One's Personality Should Be Safeguarded
5. Appropriate Subsidies to Aid Unemployed Workers
6. Pension & Insurance
7. Social Security Connected with Maternity
8. Assemble & Form Associations
9. Strike
Once an atheist and socialist, she was drawn to the Catholic Church as "the church of the immigrants, the church of the poor," and converted to Catholicism. She lived a life of solidarity with the poor. She began the Catholic Worker movement, the hallmark of which was a newspaper to make public the social teaching of the Church and suggest ways to transform society in peaceful, just ways.
Dorothy Day
Governs what individuals owe their country & society
Legal Justice
Fourth Principle of Catholic Social Teaching
Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
Describe the culture of life and the culture of death
The culture of life seeks to overcome the issues in life by respecting the dignity of life while the culture of death responds to these issues by accelerating death
Identify two of the factors that contribute to famine and world hunger
1. Corruption
2. Foreign Loans
3. Land Degradation
4. Politics
5. Climate Change
addresses the dignity of the worker & looks at the rights and obligations of both workers and employers
Rerum Novarum (Pope Leo XIII, 1891)
a virtue of loving God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God
Charity
Fifth Principle of Catholic Social Teaching
The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers
List the four requirements for the Moral Principle of Double Effect
1. Action must be good
2. Intention must be good
3. Must first achieve the good
4. Grave reason
Identify two rights to go to war and two rights within war
Right to Go to War
1. Just Cause
2. Comparative Justice
3. Competent Authority
4. Right Intention
5. Probability of Success
6. Last Resort
Rights Within War
1. Distinction
2. Proportionality
3. Military Necessity
4. Fair Treatment of POWs
5. No "malum in se"
This saint was known for upholding the dignity of life, even at its very beginnings. As a wife, mother, and doctor, she saw her work in the medical profession as truly a mission, and she gave special attention to mothers, babies, and the elderly. Her pregnancy with her fourth child had complications. She chose to forgo measures that would save her life but endanger the life of her unborn child. Soon after giving birth to a daughter, she passed away.
St. Gianna Beretta Molla
Name two examples of charity and two examples of justice
Answers vary
Seventh Principle of Catholic Social Teaching
Care for God's Creation