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Cardinal Virtues

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  • Based on the Latin word for “pivot”
  • Four virtues that are viewed as pivotal or essential for full Christian living
    • Prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance
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Common Good

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  • The good that is collectively shared by a number of people
  • Beneficial for all members of a given community
  • Social conditions that allow for all citizens of the earth, individuals and families, to meet basic needs and achieve fulfillment promote the common good
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Commutative Justice

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  • This type of justice calls for fairness in agreements and contracts between individuals
  • Equal exchange of goods, money, or services
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Corporal Works of Mercy

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  • Charitable actions that respond to people’s physical needs and show respect for human dignity
  • Traditional list:
    • Feeding the hungry
    • Giving drink to the thirsty
    • Clothing the naked
    • sheltering the homeless
    • visiting the sick
    • visiting prisoners
    • Burying the dead
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Covenant

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-A solemn agreement between human beings or between God and a human being in which mutual commitments are made

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Culture of Death

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  • A term used to describe a society that does not hold human life sacred in all its stages
  • Such a society creates structures of sin that allow human life to be attacked when it is most vulnerable
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Culture of Life

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  • A term used to describe a society that holds all life sacred, from conception to natural death
  • Such societies build social structures that protect and defend human life in all its stages
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Distributive Justice

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  • The responsibility that society has for safeguarding essential human rights and ensuring the just distribution of the earth’s resources
  • special regard for those people whose basic needs are going unmet
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Social Encyclical and Pastoral Letter

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  • A teaching letter from the Pope to the members of the Church on topics of social justice, human rights, and peace
  • Pastoral letter: same thing but by a bishop
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Euthanasia

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  • A direct action, or a deliberate lack of action, that causes the death of a person who is handicapped, sick, or dying
  • Violation of the 5th commandment
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Fair Trade

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-An organized social movement and market-based approach that aims to help producers in developing countries to obtain living wages for their labor

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Justice

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  • The cardinal virtue concerned with the rights and duties within relationships
  • The commitment, as well as the actions and attitudes that flow from the commitment, to ensure that all persons- particularly people who are poor and oppressed- receive what is due them
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Legal Justice

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  • The social responsibilities that citizens owe their country and society
    • Ex: joining the army if asked
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Original Justice

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-The state of complete harmony of our first parents with themselves, with each other, and with all of creation

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Social Justice

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-The defense of human dignity by ensuring that essential human needs are met and the essential human rights are protected for all people

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Social Doctrine

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-The body of teaching by the Church on economic and social matters that includes moral judgements and demands for action in favor of those being harmed

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Stewardship

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  • The careful and responsible management of someone or something that has been entrusted to a person’s care
  • Includes responsibly using and caring for the gifts of creation that God has given us
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Temporal Good

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-The aspect of the common good that focuses on the material and social needs that are part of earthly life

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Theological Virtues

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  • The name for the God-given virtues of faith, hope, and love (charity)
  • Enable us to know God and God and lead us to union with him in mind and heart
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Principles of Social Justice/ Catholic Social Teachings

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  • Life and Dignity of the Human Person
  • Call to Family, Community, and Participation
  • Solidarity
  • Care for God’s Creation (Stewardship)
  • Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
  • The Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers
  • Rights and Responsibilities
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Life and Dignity of the Human Person

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  • All human beings have God-given dignity (Created in God’s image and likeness)
  • Christians are called to respect and protect human dignity
    • Help others live to the fullest and live at basic level
  • Fundamental theme that all catholic social teachings are based off of
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Call to Family, Community, and Participation

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  • We are social creatures created by God to live in fellowship and community
  • Highest priority in society is to protect and support a family
    • Done by:
      • Making jobs that pay well
      • Portraying family in a positive way
      • Making sure basic necessities are available
  • Family has the right and responsibility to participate in society by benefitting it
    • Political process
    • Helping neighbors in need
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Solidarity

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  • Definition: Union of one’s heart and mind with all people
  • Leads to the just distribution of material goods, creates bonds between opposing groups and nations, and leads to the spread of spiritual goods such as friendship and prayer
    - All people are part of the same human family
  • Signs: influential people share their goods, stronger and richer nations help weaker nations
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Care for God’s Creation (Stewardship)

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  • God has granted us stewardship of his creation
    • The responsibility to take care of someone or something that has been entrusted in our care
  • We go against this with pollution, not recycling, using pesticides
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Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

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  • Rooted in the moral principle “universal destination of goods”
    • Earth and all its goods belong to God, and he intends these goods to provide the things all human beings need to live with dignity
  • Poor and vulnerable= their needs are greater than ours
  • Preferential option for the poor: Freely choose the become friends with poor and take on their problems, or take action against injustices against these people
  • Spiritually poor: special concern for those who experience spiritual poverty (Lack positive relationship with God)
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The Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers

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  • The work is being done by a person= it is dignified
  • Human work should contribute to the increase in goodness in the world, not detract from it
  • Workers must be treated with dignity by other workers and their employers
  • Rights of workers must be respected by business owners and protected by society
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Rights and Responsibilities

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-Because of equal dignity and value, every human has the right to the things necessary to life a dignified life
-Right to life (food, clothing, shelter, etc)
-Kinds of human rights:
Ex: Right to life, Right to worship God, Economic rights, right to immigrate and emigrate
-Rights extend to all people!!!
-Governments and institutions have the responsibility not to prevent people from exercising rights
-Individuals must fulfill their responsibility to participate in society and contribute to the common good
-Limits on rights: ex: private property is not unlimited (Provide for those in need)

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Sources of Catholic Social Teaching

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  • Scripture: The Bible

- Tradition: Magisterium, Encyclicals, Pastoral Letters

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“Seamless Garment”

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  • From a Consistent Ethic of Life by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
  • Every consistent ethic of life issue is connected like a seam on clothing
  • You cannot ignore one because the are all intertwined
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“Two Feet” of Social Action

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-Social Justice and Charitable works

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Circle of Social Action

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  • Our faith calls us to be aware of social needs and injustices
  • Awareness requires analysis, analysis results in action, and action leads to deeper awareness and the circle of action begins again
  • Awareness
  • Analysis
  • Action
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Awareness

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-Who are the poor and vulnerable people in our community, in our nation, in other parts of the world?

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Analysis

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-What is needed in order for the poor and vulnerable people of the world to experience love and Justice

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Action

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-How are we called to act so that the poor and vulnerable may live in dignity?

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Works of Justice (2 feet)

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  • Remove root causes
  • Improve structures
  • Seeks to transform sinful social structures
  • Provides long-term solution
  • Requires coordinated, long-term commitment to education, public policy, and advocacy
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Works of Charity (2 Feet)

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  • Meets basic needs and individuals
  • Direct response to someone in need
  • Makes an immediate difference
  • Corporal and spiritual works of mercy
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Rerum Novarum

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  • “On the Condition of Labor”
  • Written in light of the poor working conditions in factories in the late 1800s
    • Combat the poor working conditions for the vulnerable workers of the time
  • In response to the industrial revolution
  • Pope Leo XIII (the 13th)
  • Significant because it help set up the working conditions of factories in the USA today
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Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship

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  • Written as guidance for Catholic voters by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)
  • Voters should develop a well formed conscious by study CST and issues
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Matthew 22: 34-40 (The Greatest Commandment)

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  • The Pharisees asked Jesus what the greatest commandment of all was
  • 1st: “Love your Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your mind”
  • 2nd: “Love your neighbor as yourself”
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Conscience (Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship)

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  • A well formed conscience is the voice of God resounding in the human heart, revealing the truth to us and calling us to do what is good while shunning what is evil
  • The three necessary elements of the well formed conscience:
    - desire to embrace goodness and truth
    - examine the facts and background information about various choices
    - prayerful reflection, which is essential to discern the will of God
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Prudence (Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship)

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  • Prudence is the virtue that allows us “to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it
  • Allows us to see the good in all circumstances
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Intrinsically Evil (Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship)

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-actions which we must ever do because they are incompatible with love for God and neighbor
Ex. Human cloning, stem cell research, genocide, abortion, torture, terrorism

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What should a voter do when all candidates hold intrinsic evils? (Forming consciences for faithful citizenship)

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1) They can either refrain from voting, which is discouraged as voting is the job of a good citizen
2) vote for the candidate who is least likely to advance the intrinsically evil act
3) Catholic voters may vote for a candidate who supports an evil action, if they will promote more moral stances than the other candidate.

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Does the Catholic Church tell individuals how to vote?

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  • Does not tell individuals who to vote for
    • Instead form a conscience based on God’s truth
  • Make informed decisions by seeking resources and guides authorized by bishops
  • Political decisions: stick true to Church teaching, not what fits our beliefs
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Scripture

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  • The term for any sacred writing

- For Christians, the Old and New Testaments that make up the Bible and are recognized as the word of God

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Tradition

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  • The process of passing on God’s message
  • Began with the oral communication of the Gospel by the Apostles
  • Was written down in the Scriptures
  • Handed down and lived out in the life of the Church
  • Interpreted by the Bishops of the Church in union with the Pope under the guidance of the Holy Spirit
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Original Holiness

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-The original state of human beings in their relationship with God, sharing in the divine life in full communion with him

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Universal Destination of Goods

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  • The principle that the earth and all its goods belong to God
  • He intends these goods to provide the things all human beings need to live with dignity
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Social Sin

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  • The impact that every personal sin has on other people
  • Sin that directly attacks others’ life, freedom, dignity, or rights
  • The collective effect of many people’s sins over time, which corrupts society and its institutions by creating “structures of sin”
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Spiritual Good

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-The good that focuses on our need for God’s grace so that we can be in full communion with God in this life and for all of eternity