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Ch 4 Test Review

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no one is ever truly isolated from others
What does it mean to say that "no person is an island"?
community
individuality
Being part of a ___________________ does not negate one's ____________________ but should aim to support and uphold the dignity of individual human persons.
social nature
God's
Persons
Your ___________ ___________ is rooted in your being made in ___________ image and likeness, who is himself a communion of __________________.
communion
This reality points you toward your own ultimate ____________________ with the Blessed Trinity.
just as any living thing is made of many cells, so too is any society built from many families
What does it mean to call the family the original cell of social life?
(a) You learn morals and what it truly means to be human in a family.
(b) You develop your potential within a family.
(c) You become aware of your dignity within a family.
(d) In a family, you prepare for your unique and individual destiny.
What are four examples of how the family is the primary place of "humanization" for the person and society?
true
True or False? The disintegration of the family leads to the disintegration of human society.
It means the family is truly the Church: the Body of Christ lived out within the home.
What does it mean to refer to the family as the domestic church?
communion
family
The ___________________ of man and woman gives rise to the ______________.
gift
create
Marriage is a __________ of God to humanity—an objective reality that man did not ________________.
author
benefits
God himself is the ______________ of matrimony, endowed as it is with various ___________________ and purposes.
ordered
fidelity
fecundity
Marriage is ultimately _______________ to the good of the spouses (_______________) and to the procreation (_______________) and education of children.
love
ordering
good
The ___________ between a husband and wife must always follow this ________________ because it is offered as the _______________ of the other spouse and is open to life.
the union of the husband and wife's souls mirror the union of Christ, the Bridegroom, and the Church, his bride
What does it mean to say that Christ raised marriage to the level of a sacrament?
human persons
equality
different
Because they are ___________ ____________ men and women are equal in dignity. But within their ___________ men and women are __________________.
conflict
These differences, instead of giving rise to _______________, can complement one another.
integral
nature
complementarity
This __________________ component of the ________________ of marriage is referred to as ________________________ of the sexes.
A friendship of utility
this friendship serves a need for one or both people. The friendship ends when the need no longer exists.
A friendship of pleasure
individuals are drawn to one another based on the
pleasure they derive from the friendship, such as because of the friend's personality, looks, and so forth. This type of friendship involves friends who entertain you, with whom you have a good time.
A friendship of virtue
both people value the other's virtue and encourage one another to strive for virtuousness. These are the friends who bring out virtue in you.
lifestyle
stage
Chastity is a __________________ of freedom that involves the entire person at every _____________ of his or her life.
Chaste
sexuality
_______________ people are very aware of the gift of ___________________ and honor it in all aspects of their lives
respect
demean
Likewise, they also __________________ the gift of sexuality in others, not treating them in ways that ____________________ their sexuality.
true
True or False? Living a chaste life is an important basis for establishing healthy relationships built on mutual respect and a genuine interest in the good of the other person.
false
True or False? Sexuality is simply biological.
sixth
exclusively
fidelity
Adultery is a sin against the ______________ commandment and betrays the ___________________ of the marital covenant and the lifelong _________________ between a man and a woman.
language of the body
marriage
Adultery is inherently a lie in the _____________ ____ _____ _________ because once you've given yourself to someone in _________________, you cannot give yourself to someone else.
Like adultery, fornication is gravely wrong and is a sin against the Sixth Commandment. It too is a lie in the language of the body.
In what sense is fornication like adultery?
The spread of disease is one negative social consequence of adultery. Also, children born outside marriage are often deprived of the material and emotional support parents are called to provide.
What are other negative social consequences of fornication besides the spiritual and emotional harm?
true
True or False? Masturbation is an intrinsically disordered use of one's sexuality because any use of the sexual faculty other than within marriage is against the purpose of marriage.
false
True or False? A person's personal culpability (guiltiness) cannot be lessened or increased because of the circumstances surrounding the act.
true
True or False? Rape is a profound violation of justice and charity and brings deep and lasting wounds to its victims.
Prostitution reduces sexuality to a commodity to be traded rather than an act of self-giving love. It diminishes the value of the human person to that of an object that gives or takes sexual pleasure. It is opposed to every purpose of human sexuality.
What are the harmful effects of prostitution?
It harms the viewer by training the person to use others for selfish gratification. Consequently, it can cause great division and hurt in marriages and even future marriages. It also hurts the persons being portrayed— even if willingly—in that they renounce their true personhood to be treated as objects.
How does pornography harm all those involved?
false
True or False? Any sexual act that is opposed to both purposes of the sexual act—\ deepening of the union between spouses and the bearing of life—is disordered and morally wrong.
Merely having an attraction is not morally wrong but acting upon a attraction is always morally wrong
Explain the moral distinction between persons who experience same-sex attraction and the homosexual act itself.
true
True or False? Like everyone, persons with homosexual tendencies are called to a life of chastity, which in their case includes a life of abstinence from homosexual acts.
orientation
Christian
Church
People with a homosexual _______________ are called to be saints and to live a full _________________ life while participating as a valued member of the ______________.
endure
fault
heroic virtue
strength
Like many people who have to _________________ emotional or physical struggles that are not their ______________, it still must be met with ______________ _____________ of which Christ's grace can be a source of ____________.
...
What does the Church say about the treatment of those with same-sex attraction?
Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.
What were God's first words when he created the first man and woman?
false
True or False? Only in recent years has the Catholic Church been clear that the call to "be fertile and multiply" is an integral part of the marriage covenant
true
True or False? Artificial contraception is designed to deny the procreative dimension of the sexual union of spouses.
teaching
Humanae Virtae
Blessed Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the Church's _______________ against artificial contraception in his encyclical, ___________ __________.
purposely
wrong
The Church has consistently taught that any act that ___________ rejects procreation is intrinsically _____________.
lying
bodies
Though most couples would not intend this, contracepting is _________ to each other with their ___________.
false
True or False? The Church's teaching against contraception means that every married couple is morally required to have as many children as humanly possible.
a couple watches the signs of a woman's body and refrains from the sexual act during the time in the month in which she is fertile.
What is Natural Family Planning?
true
True or False? Any type of artificial fertilization or insemination is intrinsically immoral.
vitro fertilization
is a procedure in which the mother's egg and the man's sperm are joined in a laboratory and implanted in the mother's womb.
artificial insemination
is a fertility technique in which a man's sperm is artificially implanted in the mother's womb.
surrogate motherhood
is placing a fertilized ovum in another woman's womb and letting the baby grow inside her, to be delivered for the biological parents.
true
True or False? Often artificial methods of conception produce multiple embryos—embryos that cannot be viably implanted in the woman's womb and which are therefore destroyed.
false
True or False? The Church emphasizes that a child is something owed to a couple, not a gift.
living together, defacto unions, two people living together without being married
What is cohabitation?
based on whims and desires instead of the natural law and divine revelation
What does it mean to say that cohabitation leads to a relativistic view of the family?
you could get kicked out and have nowhere to live, could get easily abandoned, bc there is no serious or legal documented paper, the relationship is easily abandoned in the face of hardship. if they have children they are missing out on having that promise of stability and a father and a mother.
-for society cohabitation leads to further breakdown of the family structure.
Besides spiritual consequences, what are practical consequences of couples cohabitating?
same-sex
compassion
public declaration
Putting ______-_______ unions on the same level as marriage at first glance seems like an act of ____________ or a matter of civil rights, but marriage is more than just a ________ ___________ of your love for someone.
restrictions
unions
individuals
Societies have always put ___________ on who one can marry because it recognizes that certain __________ are not good for _______________ or society.
Procreation
complimentarity
matrimony
_______________ is brought about through the _____________ of men and women and is the goal of the Sacrament of ___________.
new
life
nature
The homosexual act cannot bring forth ______ ______ and is therefore not in accord with the ___________ of marriage.
same-sex
Further, _____ - ____ unions also deny the complementarity of man and woman.
defense
bond
condemnation
In its __________ of marriage as a sacramental ______, the Church does not imply ______________ for persons struggling with homosexuality.
natural
right
family
oligation
However, no one has the ___________ _______ to marry anyone they wish, and because marriage and ____________ is the building block of society, society has the ______________ to preserve the truth.
signs and instruments of Christ's love in the world and to witness to the religious meaning of marriage
What are all married Catholic men and women called to witness about the vocation of marriage?
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