| A | B |
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| The common term for escaping sexual “rules” so as to do whatever one wants with his or her sexuality. In reality, an excuse to use sexuality as a form of recreation, often leading to the slavery of sexual addiction and a life of emptiness and broken relationships. | Sexual liberation |
| The study of God, seeking to understand God and his Word | Theology |
| The “common union” between two or more persons who give themselves to one another in love. Pope John Paul II refers to the unity of Adam and Eve as the “prototype” through which man and woman become more fully the image of God. | Communion of Persons |
| The inherent and unchanging value of all persons as a direct result of their being created by God in his image and likeness. | Dignity |
| It is sexual desire apart from God’s love – a selfish desire that seeks one’s own pleasure at the expense of another. | Lust |
| Freely choosing to forego earthly marriage “for the sake of the kingdom of heaven”. People who consecrate themselves with undivided heart to the Lord and to the “affairs of the Lord” | Celebacy |
| A study of God and the purpose of our existence, as discovered and revealed through our bodies. | Theology of the Body |
| The “inclination to sin” that is present in all humans, inherited through the sin of Adam and Eve, and against which we must struggle to resist. | Concupiscence |
| It makes a spiritual reality visible to us. It is an outward sign “instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us.” | Sacrament |
| The opposite of hope, the resolve to give up pursuing whatever was initially pursued. | Despair |
| This choice affected all of humanity, giving us all a tendency to sin, a disordered desire to break God’s law, and a world prone to suffering and struggles of all kinds…including death. | Original Sin |
| The inherent ability of the body to act as a visible sign of God’s invisible love. | Sacramentality of the Body |
| A decision to “will the good of another” person. | Love |
