Key terms
What is common good?
As an individual or as groups to reach their own fulfillment easier, and more fully.
What is economics?
Originally referred to the household and its management. Generally used to refer to the system of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services in a society.
What is the golden rule?
The golden rule is treating others the way you want to be treated.
What is Commutative?
Pertains to contractual relationships between individuals, and between institutions that have the legal status of a person.
What does legal mean?
It's the relationship of the individual to society, based on law and the enforcement of law.
What does distributive mean?
It is the relationship of government to the individual, and the government’s obligations.
What is private property?
Something that is owned for one’s exclusive use, or for one’s exclusive control.
What is righteous??
It's acting in accord with divine or moral law.
What is solidarity?
Unity with and among people, based on common interests, values, principles.
What is anthropocentrism?
The Greek anthropos – man. A worldview that considers the human being as the most significant entity in the universe
What is conservationist?
It's one who sees nature as a resource to be preserved for wise human consumption.
What is dominion??
Word used in Genesis to describe humankind’s rule over creation, so that right order may be achieved. Humans are called to exercise dominion over the earth, a dominion of service, wisdom and love.
What is ecology??
Study of the earth’s biosphere. From the Greek words oikos, or house, and logia, meaning word, reason or discourse. It is a discourse about our dwelling place, planet earth.
What does Study globalist mean??
It's one who regards all elements of nature, living and non-living, as worthy of protection
What is hierarchism?
One who views nature in terms of a hierarchy of living creatures, from the lowest microbe to the highest – human being. The lower forms are meant to serve the higher forms.
What does preservationist mean?
One who views all living creatures as part of an integrated ecosystem, all having value in and of themselves.
What does stewardship mean??
It means humankind is to exercise dominion over creation: a caring cooperation with God, a caring for creation with a sense of service, motivated by love.
What is theocentrism?
From the Greek theos – God. A worldview that considers God to be the most significant entity in the universe.
What does absolution mean??
In the sacrament of reconciliation, the priest absolves the penitent from his or her sins. Absolution is the remission of sins pronounced by the priest.
What is penance??
In the sacrament of reconciliation, the priest asks the penitent to do an act of “satisfaction” or penance for his or her sins. This act of penance serves not only to make up for the past but also to help him or her begin a new life. This act of penance may take the form of prayer, self-denial, or especially service to one’s neighbour and works of mercy.
What is a penitent?
A person who recognizes his or her sinfulness, and touched by the grace of God, seeks reconciliation through the sacrament of reconciliation.
What does repentance mean?
The act by which a penitent recognizes his or her sinfulness, manifests contrition, and resolves to begin a new life by asking God’s pardon.
What is a restorative justice?
A process that brings together victims, offenders and the community in order to repair the harm and promote harmony. It emphasizes healing the harm caused by crime by means of naming the truth and making amends personally
What does sin, mortal and venial mean??
It means mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent. One commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, one does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when one disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full knowledge or without complete consent
What is social sin?
Personal sin gives rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to divine goodness. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. Living in a state of sin corrodes and destroys the communion and solidarity to which God calls us.