We've Got Our Paws Standing on the Laws
Because humans are social beings, we are called to live in a "society" which needs...
Laws
These are the types of Just Law: External law, Natural Law, Revealed Law, Ecclesiastical Law, Civil Law and...
The New Law
Reflection is an...
An essential characteristic of the human person
Just Civil Law consists of...
Societal laws enacted for the greater common good
Fr. Jim Martin on 9/11: What did he do on a Sunday at ground zero...
He said Mass
Because humans are social beings, laws within the society must be...
Just
External Law is God and applies to...
Everything in the universe
Defined: Rational Discernment is...
When we use our intellect: Intellectual conscience
The burden of a just civil law is that it must shared by all members of society, not a select few. This is called...
Quality of Proportion
Fr. Jim Martin on 9/11: As he drove to ground zero Father was worried about this when he arrived...
What he would see
Negative law is designed to tell members of society what....
They cannot do
Revealed Law is the law as revealed by The Holy Spirit through...
Sacred Scripture
Defined: Moral Reflection is when we realized the good or evil involved in an act...
Through prayerful discernment
Just law is an ordinance of reason and the fruit of reasoned deliberation about needs of...
The human person and society
Fr. Jim Martin on 9/11: While he was saying mass, someone spray painted these words on a plywood next to the altar...
Body of Christ
Positive Law is law that provides for what is _______ in a society
Possible
Civil Law is...
The secular law of society
The New Law: Jesus says to...
Love one another as I have Loved you
From the Catechism of The Catholic Church - Paragraph 1902;
"A human law has the character of law to the extent that it accords with right reason and thus derives from..."
Eternal Law
Fr. Jim Martin on 9/11: Father sees a connection between those who witnessed the Resurrection of Jesus and 9/11...
It’s very hard to communicate what happened that day
Positive Law is communicated to us by...
Those who have authority in our society
The New Law comes from...
Jesus
“Nothing other than Divine Wisdom is guiding all movements and acts”
This quote from St. Thomas Aquinas explains that God controls all...
Movements and acts throughout the universe
Every moral human act can be evaluated from three perspectives...
- The ________ (the object)
- The person performing the act and...
- The circumstances surrounding the act.
Act itself
Fr. Jim Martin on 9/11:
He said his experience was...
Resurrection and hope