Palliative Care / Forgiveness
This type of care focuses on improving the quality of life for those with life-limiting illnesses by relieving suffering.
What is Palliative Care?
This genre of the Bible includes stories that convey spiritual truths through narrative, found in books like Genesis and Exodus.
What is Narrative/Historical?
This Greek term, used by Aristotle, refers to the virtue of temperance which includes self-control over bodily pleasures.
What is Sophrosyne?
This term describes the Catholic Church's teachings aimed at addressing social, economic, and political issues through a gospel perspective.
What are Catholic Social Teachings (CST)?
This term refers to the careful investigation of the intended meaning of sacred writers in the Bible, considering historical and literary contexts.
What is Exegesis?
According to Catholic teachings, this concept underscores the inherent worth of every individual as they are created in God’s image.
What is Human Dignity?
This Old Testament book is known for its poetic and wisdom literature, containing prayers and songs directed to God.
What is Psalms?
According to Christian teachings, this aspect of love involves putting others' needs first, reflecting Christ's own example.
What is Selfless & Sacrificial Love?
This principle of CST emphasizes giving priority to the needs of those who are least in society, advocating for their rights and well-being.
What is the Option for the Poor and Vulnerable?
This document from Vatican II emphasizes the importance of understanding the intent of the sacred writers and the literary forms used in Scripture.
What is Dei Verbum?
This sacrament involves confessing sins to a priest to reconcile with God and receive absolution.
What is the Sacrament of Penance or Reconciliation?
In the New Testament, these are accounts of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
What are the Gospels?
This practice, common in secular society, involves living together without the sacrament of marriage, challenging traditional Christian views.
What is Cohabitation?
This CST principle asserts that all individuals are made in God's image, thus advocating for the respect and dignity of every human life.
What is the Life and Dignity of the Human Person?
This prophet in the Old Testament is known for both warning of doom and promising hope, emphasizing the importance of putting God first.
Who is Micah?
This act, according to Catholic belief, involves the remission of temporal punishment for sins already forgiven, potentially shortening one's stay in purgatory.
What are Indulgences?
This literary form is found notably in the books of Daniel and Revelation.
What is Apocalyptic Literature?
These are two biblical relationships (4 people total) that exemplify chaste and loving friendships, one between a mother and foster father, the other between a mentor and disciple.
Who are Mary and Joseph, and Paul and Timothy?
This parable from the New Testament exemplifies solidarity and human dignity by showing help across cultural boundaries.
What is the Parable of the Good Samaritan?
This collection of texts includes the teachings of Jesus on the ethics of the Kingdom of God, found in Matthew chapters 5-7.
What is the Sermon on the Mount?
This concept from St. Augustine describes evil not as a substance but as the corruption or absence of good.
What is the Augustinian Understanding of Evil?
Rest
According to the first story of creation in Genesis, what did God do on the seventh day after creating everything, setting an example for humanity?
Chastity
Which concept involves living according to God's plan for human sexuality, embracing purity, self-control, and commitment either in marriage or celibacy?
This papal encyclical, written in 1989, explicitly links the care for the environment with the preferential option for the poor, discussing how the degradation of the earth's resources impacts the most vulnerable, while also integrating themes from Catholic Social Teaching like solidarity and the common good, and uses a specific biblical narrative to illustrate the moral imperative of environmental stewardship.
What is "Peace with God the Creator, Peace with All of Creation," by Pope John Paul II, which references the story of Noah's Ark from Genesis 6-9, illustrating that the care for creation is inherently linked to the care for the poor and vulnerable through the themes of stewardship, solidarity, and the common good, suggesting that environmental degradation is a form of moral and social injustice that particularly affects those with the least resources to cope with its consequences?
This term describes the dual sources through which Catholics come to know Jesus Christ: the written Bible and the transmission of divine truth through Church practices.
What are Sacred Scripture and Apostolic Tradition?