Morality Chapter 9 - THS Junior Theology
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commandments, didache series, didache, catholic, junior theology, theology
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Trinity High School
Junior Theology
Ms. Kimberly Hogan
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Avarice | A passionate desire for riches that leads one to use money to control others. |
| Calumny | False and malicious misrepresentation of the words and actions of another intended to injure his or her reputation. |
| Centesimus Annus | A social encyclical by Pope John Paul II on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII's encyclical Rerum Novarum. |
| Common Good | The general good of all citizens. |
| Detraction | The action of taking away from a person's merit or reputation by disclosing another's true faults or sins. This is a sin against the 8th Commandment because each person has a right to his good name. |
| Ecology | From the Greek OIKOS meaning a house or dwelling, this science deals with the relations of living organisms, (especially humans) to their surroundings or habitats. This field also studies environmental issues. |
| Eminent Domain | The superiority of the civil authority over all property under its control. This principle states that a government can claim private property, with compensation to the owner, because of a legitimate and overriding public concern. |
| Envy | Unhappiness at another's good fortune or social status. |
| Falsehood | That which is contrary to truth. The intentional making of untrue statements. |
| Flattery | Attributes qualities that may not exist or which are exaggerated, usually for personal gain or favor. |
| Gravity | The weight of seriousness of a sin, sometimes influenced by circumstances and intentions. |
| Greed | The desire for earthly goods without limit. |
| Honor | Respect or good reputation that is acquired through the practice of virtue or heroic acts. The quality that brings people to be guided by the most elevated moral norms. |
| Justice | One of the four cardinal virtues, this refers to observance of the divine law. This virtue is used to administer to God and each person his due. |
| Martyrdom | The act of giving up one's life for the Faith. |
| Objective Truth | Reality as it is, even outside a person's intellect and independent of his acknowledgement of its existence. |
| Principle of Solidarity | The duty of cooperating and harmonizing all of the rights of the individual and the demand that are derived from the sociability of man. It represents the entire, joint effort to reach the good of the individual and of society. |
| Principle of the Common Good | The primacy of that which is beneficial for all people within a community over that of individual(s) within the same community. |
| Private Property | The right of a person or community of persons to own, govern, and otherwise dispose of some part of creation. |
| Rash Judgment | A judgment that questions someone's character or concludes a moral defect without sufficient evidence. |
| Reputation | The good or bad opinion commonly held about a person. |
| Rerum Novarum | Social encyclical of Pope Leo XIII that represented the first comprehensive social teaching of the Catholic Church on issues such as labor and the distribution of goods. |
| Slander | A maliciously false statement or report in order to defame or injure a person. Same as calumny, except usually an oral utterance, rather than written. |
| Social Doctrine of the Church | Moral teaching of the Church with regard to the dignity of the person, the basic rights of the person, and the requirement of the common good. |
| Social Justice | The mode of action that requires from each person what is necessary for the common good. This should characterize relations among individuals or among diverse groups and social issues in all areas of social interaction. |
| Stewardship | The responsible and just use of the worlds resources. |
| Subjectivism | The philosophical theory that treats all knowledge as merely relative, denying the possibility of objective knowledge. |
| Theft | Unjustly taking and keeping the property of another against the reasonable will of the owner. |
| Tolerance | The practice of the virtue of patience with respect to the opinions or practices of others. |
| Truth | The correlation between the idea in ones mind and objective reality. |
| Universal Destination of Goods | Biblical principle that the goods of the earth are meant to be used to supply the needs of all human persons in an equitable fashion. |
| Veracity | Truthfulness. The disposition of a person to tell the truth. |
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