| Magisterium | Pope and Bishops, Official teaching authority |
| Moral Object | The What? Act being considered |
| Intentions | Motives of an act; Why? |
| Circumstances | Details of an act; Who? When? Where? How? |
| Sacraments | Visible signs of invisible God |
| Pure Love | Why God created |
| Equality | Men and Women's Dignity, Created in God's Image |
| Genesis Chapter 3 | Tells story of "The Fall" in figurative language |
| Divine Providence | God's love and concern for humans |
| Covenant | Agreement or pact between 2 parties |
| Concupiscence | Human inclination or tendency to sin |
| Savior of the World | Jesus Christ |
| Redemption | Accomplished by Jesus' death and Resurrection |
| Decalogue | 10 Commandments, Covenant at Sinai |
| Conscience | Where the law is written; Secret inner core and sanctuary |
| Virtues | Habits or dispositions to do good |
| True Freedom | To choose amongst the good alternatives |
| Resposibility | To be accountable for one's actions |
| Enslaved | What one becomes when one chooses to do evil |
| Life | Precious from conception to natural death |
| Image of God | Every single human being |
| Creation is ongoing | The world is in the state of becoming |
| Passion | Emotions like Love, Anger, Hate/Feelings are morally neutral |
| Cause of Evil | God is no way willed/caused evil. Evil exists only because of free will |
| Free Will | God's gift to humans to choose |
| Dependent | Humans need/depend on God |
| Mount Sinai Covenant | 10 Commandments. Important event in Israel. |
| Cardinal Virtues | Hinge Virtues Justice, Prudence, Fortitude and Temperance |
| Justice | To give God and others their due: Religion and Respect |
| Prudence | Using free will to make moral decisions |
| Fortitude | Courage to do what is right |
| Temperance | Moderation |
| Respect | for people, comes under virtue of Justice |
| Religion | for God, Comes under virtue of Justice |
| Passions | Must be governed by Reason |
| Most Fundamental Passion | love |
| Mystery | Beyond human comprehension |
| Scripture and Tradition | Foundation of reverence of Live. 2 ways to discover Gods love |
| Holy Spirit | _________________________ |
| Reason | Ability to think; to be rational |
| Glory | of God; Why world was made |
| Destiny | Eternal |
| Dignity | Immortal Modern God, Gift to humans/respect |
| Prudent | Complimentary Terms using good moral judgement |
| Creation | Gods first and universal witness to His love and goodness |
| Freedom | rooted in reason and free will |
| Good Intention | does not make and evil action good |
| Characteristics of Law | Reasonable Common Good Competent Authority and Promulgated |
| Reverence for Life | At all stages--Conception to natural death |
| Golden Calves of today | Money, Power, Sex, Drugs |
| Natural Law | Easily determined by rational people |
| Civil Law | Application of natural Law in city, state, or nation |
| Divine Law | Resides in God's Hands |
| Church Law | Canon Law |
| Beatitutes | blessed |
| Poor in Spirit | Trust God |
| Mourn | Grieve and suffer |
| Uprightness | Justice and Peace |
| Gentle/Meek | Kind and courteous |
| Merciful | Forgiving |
| Pure in Heart | Authentic/Real |
| Peacemakers | Live in harmony with others |
| Persecuted | Suffer for doing what is right |
| Holy Mystery | God-- beyond human comprehension and language |
| The Way, the Truth and the Life | Jesus-- only way to God |
| Model for all disciples | Mary--Does God's Will |
| Community of love | Holy Trinity: Father, son, holy spirit |
| Service | Obligation for chrisatians |
| Grace | Gods life and love in us |
| Theological Virtues | Faith, Hope, Charity |
| Holy Spirit | Guides, Sanctifies, Teaches |
| Only creature willed for its own sake | Humans |
| Fundamental Vocation | Love |
| How do we fully discover ourselves | Doing the right thing |
| Our hearts are restless until they rest in _____. | God |
| To love is to will the _____of another. | good |
| Amoral | Totally unconcerned with standards |
| Moral | To be good, to be all God intended |
| good | to be fully human |
| Divine | God's life |
| Ethics | Search for norms using reason alone |
| Social beings | Humans need each other |
| 4th Commandment | Honor family |
| 5th commandment | Respect Life |
| 6th commandment | Chastity |
| Ultimate Happiness | To be with God in heaven |
| ____ Never justifies the ______ | end means |
| Norm | Standards which we measure behavior |
| Highest Norm | Divine Laws |
| Are Humans absolutely determined by heredity and environment? | NO |
| Are humans ruled by instinct | NO |
| Are humans conditioned? | NO |
| Morality | Set of norms of free human behavior in light of Revelation. Positive, response to our neighbor |
| Jesus | Perfect Norm |
| Motives | Intentions |
| Center of Morality | Perfect Norm Jesus |
| Abstinence | no sex |
| Chastity | Virtue |
| Save Sex for Marriage | Chastity |
| Is there such a thing as "safe sex"? | No, only abstinence |
| Serve | Obligation |
| Contrition | Sorrow, to ask forgiveness |
| Wisdom | Parents and adults have wisdom based on age and experience |
| Petition | To ask for something in the name of the Lord |
| Gospel | Good News of salvation |
| Kingdom | Wherever, whenever God is present |
| Unconditionally | How God loves us |
| Meditation | presence of God |
| Gospel Values | Faith, Hope, Charity, Reconciliation, Solidarity |
| Hedonism | "If it feels good, do it" |
| Secular Humanism | Evil: Emphasizing achievement of people without God |
| Morality of Conformity | Evil : says right is determined by majority opinion |
| Greatest Commandment | Love God above all |
| Characteristics of Human Beings | Soul: Reason, Free Will, Capacity to Love |
| Sin | Attitude or action that kills relationship with God |
| Mass | Source and summit of Catholic life |
| Cross | Rich symbol of God's love for us |
| Monotheism | Belief in one God |
| Creed | A formal statement of beliefs |
| "Beatitude" | Blessed or Happy |
| Evangelists | Writers of Gospel |
| Evangelize | To spread the good news of salvation to others |
| Messiah | Hebrew for savior |
| Pentecost | Birthday of the Church |
| Ascension | Jesus goes to Heaven |
| Holy Orders | Ordains bishop and priests |
| Abraham | Father of Chosen People |
| Peter | First Pope or head of the Church |
| Incarnation | God takes on human flesh in person of Jesus |
| "Catholic" | Universal of the whole earth |
| Transubstantiation | Bread is Jesus' Body, Wine is Jesus' Blood |
| Paschal Mystery | Jesus' suffering, death, resurrection and ascension accomplishes salvation |
| Communion of Saints | Those who have died and are in Heaven |
| The word beatitude means | blessed |
| The greek word for Savior is | Christos |
| The ___________ is the source and summit of christian love | Eucharist |
| Jesus had BOTH a __________ nature and a ___________nature | human.....diviine |
| ______________is the Way, the Truth and the Life | Jesus |
| Our word for God's life and love in us is _____________ | unconditional |
| The four gospel writers are also called ____________ | evangelists from the Greek work for "good news." |
| The theological virtues are: | Faith, Hope and Love/Charity |
| God is Holy ____________ in whose presence we fall SILENT. | Mystery |
| ____________ is the model discipline in saying YES to God, and doing God's Will | Mary |
| Doing service is not an ___________ for the followers of Jesus. | option |
| The birthday of the Church is ______________ when the Holy Spirit came to the apostles | Pentecost |
| The Blessed ______________ is God in three persons in one community of love. | Trinity |
| Love of God is inseparable from love of _________________- and vica versa. | neighbor |
| ________ is an action of an attitude that kills one's relationship with God | Sin |
| Soul | Seed of eternity. Made in image of God. Separates us from plants and animals |
| Human | Made in image of God |