| A | B |
| anthropology | the study of culture of human beings. |
| encyclical | an official pastoral letter written by the pope |
| vocation | life-long goal |
| communion | knowledge that we are safe in the hands of another |
| community | a group of persons bound together by a sense of unity that goes beyond each one of them. |
| sin | is being disconnected to God by damaging or breaking up the relationship God established in creation. |
| rational | using thinking and reasoning to make a decision |
| freedom | the power to act or not to act |
| catechism | the official book of Catholic teaching |
| human | a person |
| divine | God-like or inspired by God |
| Yahweh | the Hebrew name for God |
| Yahwist | the writer of Hebrew scriptures |
| Genesis | the first book of the Bible |
| moral | deciding what is good and what is evil |