Key Terms 1
What is Solidarity?
Unity with and among people, based on common interests, values, principles.
What is the Golden Rule?
Do to others as you would have them do to you
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 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.
What is Penitent?
A person who recognizes his or her sinfulness, and touched by the grace of God, seeks reconciliation through the sacrament of reconciliation.
What is Repentance?
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 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 is Absolution?
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 Private property?
Something that is owned for one’s exclusive use, or for one’s exclusive control.
What is Theocentrism?
A worldview that considers God to be the most significant entity in the universe.
What is Commutative?
Pertains to contractual relationships between individuals, and between institutions that have the legal status of a person
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 Righteous?
Acting in accord with divine or moral law.
What is Anthropocentrism?
A worldview that considers the human being as the most significant entity in the universe.
What is Hierarchist?
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 is Distributive?
The relationship of government to the individual, and the government’s obligations.
What is Legal?
The relationship of the individual to society, based on law and the enforcement of law..
What is Globalist?
One who regards all elements of nature, living and non-living, as worthy of protection.
What is Preservationist?
One who views all living creatures as part of an integrated ecosystem, all having value in and of themselves.
What is Anthropocentrism?
A worldview that considers the human being as the most significant entity in the universe.
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 is Conservationist?
One who sees nature as a resource to be preserved for wise human consumption.
What is Sin: mortal and venial?
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 Penance?
In the sacrament of reconciliation, the priest asks the penitent to do an act of “satisfaction” or penance for his or her sins.
What is Stewardship?
How humankind is to exercise dominion over creation: a caring cooperation with God, a caring for creation with a sense of service, motivated by love.