THS Senior Theo Chapter 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Virtue | Firm attitudes, stable dispositions, and habitual perfections of the intellect and will that govern our actions, order and passions, and that guide our conduct according to reason and faith. (CCC, 1804) |
| Cardinal Virtues | Hinge virtues that enable us to live moral lives. |
| Prudence | Right reason in action, good common sense to discern the good and the ways to achieve it. Human reason wedded to truth. |
| Fortitude | Courage to persist in doing the good or what is right and true. |
| Temperance | Moderates our appetites for pleasure. |
| Justice | Enables us to render to God and each person what is their due. |
| 4 Cardinal Virtues | Prudence Fortitude Temperance Justice |
| 3 Theological Virtues | Faith Hope Charity |
| Faith | Empowers us to believe in God and all that God has said and revealed to us, including what the Church proposes for our belief, because God is truth itself (CCC, 1814). |
| Hope | Helps us desire heaven and eternal happiness, trusting firmly in Christ's promises and relying, not on our own efforts, but on the help and graces of the Holy Spirit (CCC, 1817). Enables us to trust in God's promises. |
| Charity | Enables us to love God above everything else for his own sake and to love our neighbor as ourselves. |
| Theological Virtues | God-given powers that direct us to our loving Triune God. |
| Commutative Justice | Calls for fairness in exchanges between individuals and private groups. |
| Distributive Justice | Sees to the just distribution of the goods of creation that God intends for all to use and share. |
| Legal Justice | Regulates citizens obligations to the larger society and government. |
| Social Justice | Applies to the Gospel of Jesus Christ to societys, structures, systems, and laws so peoples rights are guaranteed. Also known as contributive justice. |
| Covenant | An open-ended contract of love between God and his people. It involves promises and the duty to be faithful to the promises. |
| Globalization | The process whereby the worlds goods, communications, and peoples are more fully integrated, accessible, and interdependent. |
| Refugee | A person who leaves his or her country and is unwilling to return because of fear of religious, racial, ethnic, political, or some other form of persecution. |
| Immigrant | A person who leaves one country to take up permanent residence in another country. |
| Migrant | One who moves within ones country or between nations, often in search of work. |
| Rerum Novarum | The Condition of Labor written by Pope Leo XIII in 1891. |
| Prudence | Human reason wedded to truth. |
| Encyclical | A circular letter on an important matter written by the Pope. |
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