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| love | Crown of Theological Virtues, an intimate participaton in God's life |
| Theological Virutes | Gifts that come from God and take us back to God |
| courage | Ability to do what is right in the face of harm or thret of injury |
| hope | The virute by which we take responsibility for the furture in the expectation that Go's Reign will surely come |
| faith | What we come to believe about God - foundation of the Theological virtues |
| justice | the striving to ensure the well-being of others as well as our selves - not the same as fair! |
| wholeness | the balancing of all the parts of the self t create a dynamic and harmonious order |
| Rugged Individualism | the beleif we do not need any help along our moral journey |
| interdependent | the idea that we are helped an supported along our moral journey |
| magesterium | the teaching office of the Catholic church |
| Sermon on the Mount | A collection of moral guidelines and the Beatitudes |
| civil disobedience | the obligation to refuse to follow unjust laws |
| Principle of Proportionality | This principle states: if the end to be achieved is clearly so good that it outweighs the harm done by the bad means, then the means could be justified |
| Mortal sin | type of sin that cuts off our relationship with God |
| Grace | God's gift of love given to us, is more powerful than sin |
| the end does not justify the means | principle of proportionality falls under this basic moral principle |
| do good avoid evil | the most basic of the basic moral principles |
| golden rule | all world religions carry a maxim such as this |
| natural law | the basic starting point for the Catholic church when dealing with things that are not expicitly found in Scripture |
| ten commandments | the moral minimum found in Scripture |
| beatitudes | descriptions of people currently living the Reign of God |
| parables | Stories found in Scritpure that challenge people to see the world as God does |
| commission | a type of sin where a person actually commits a sin |
| ommission | a type of sin where someone neglects to act |
| social | type of sin where a whole group or society participate in a process that is unjust |
| original | type of sin that is our inherited tendency to sin |
| venial | the most common type of sin that many of us will commit |
| Eucharist | Reconciliation can be done person to person, through the Sacraement of Reconciliation and ______ |
| virtue | good habits of our mind and heart |
| cardinal virtues | the "hinge" of all other moral virtues |
| Genesis | The book of Scripture where we learn we are made in God's image |
| wise judgement | the ability to know what is right and wrong and apply this knowledge to concrete situations |
| freedom | We have the _______ to choose. |
| Power | We have been given ____ to act on our freely chosen decisions |
| Responsibility | We are expected to take _______ for our choices |
