Human Dignity & Common Good
100: What is the common good?
Answer: What is good for all people so they can lead healthy and safe lives.
100: Which answer is NOT a Catholic Social Justice Principle: Human Dignity, Communities and the Common Good, Praying for and burying the dead, or Solidarity?
Answer: Praying for and burying the dead.
100: One way you can promote the common good like Caritas Internationalis is to do what?
Answer: Support people who are struggling or vulnerable.
100: How did Jesus teach us how to be charitable?
Answer: Jesus taught us by example. He modelled charity by helping others.
100: Which gives us grace to carry out our mission to share God’s love with others?
Answer: The Seven Sacraments.
200: What is human dignity?
Answer: The value that every person is born with.
200: What is an example of acting in the spirit of solidarity?
Answer: Creating kits of school supplies for Grade 5 students in Syria who are waiting to come to Canada.
200: What does the Parable of the Good Samaritan teach us?
Answer: It is important to help others who are poor or vulnerable.
200: How does the Holy Spirit inspire us in charity?
Answer: It nudges us to honour human dignity in others.
200: How do the sacraments strengthen our ability to live and love in charity?
Answer: They remind us of the blessings they bring to our lives and to the lives of others through acts of charity.
300: Social sin happens when what occurs?
Answer: A community disrespects human dignity and treats others unfairly.
300: What could you do to show solidarity with others?
Answer: Both B and C: raise money to buy winter coats, and clean out toys to share with kids who don’t have any.
300: People who have enough money can still be poor. What is another kind of poverty?
Answer: All of the above: not being able to see a doctor, loneliness, and not feeling safe.
300: When we listen to the Holy Spirit, what does the Holy Spirit inspire us to do?
Answer: All of the above: honour human dignity, seek the common good, and share with people in need.
300: Which action is an example of being a witness to your faith?
Answer: Both A and B: answering friends’ questions about Jesus and donating your allowance to a children’s charity.
400: How does the social justice principle of “Dignity of Work” help us work against social sin?
Answer: We recognize unfair wages, respect all kinds of work, and try to help when communities are treated unfairly.
400: Which answer is NOT an example of how the Church responds in solidarity to the needs of others?
Answer: Students sell lemonade to buy themselves new headphones.
400: How does Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati inspire us to live a life of charity?
Answer: He loved and cared for others, even when he was dying.
400: Jesus invited, reached out, showed mercy, provided, and loved. These are examples of what?
Answer: The Law of Love.
400: Which of the following are sacraments that bring us closer to God?
Answer: Confirmation, Reconciliation, and Eucharist.
500: Why does human dignity matter in our faith?
Answer: Because every person has value and should be treated with love, fairness, and respect.
500: What does solidarity mean in simple words?
Answer: Standing with others, helping people in need, and caring about the good of everyone.
500: In the Parable of the Good Samaritan, what kind of Christian action did the Samaritan perform?
Answer: An act of charity.
500: Which story is NOT an example of Jesus responding to the needs of the poor and vulnerable?
Answer: Jesus asked a man to get him a donkey to ride into Jerusalem.
500: What does it mean to be a witness to your faith?
Answer: To show others that you believe in Jesus through your words, choices, and actions.