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Module 3: Justice in Scripture and Tradition Flashcards

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True or false: Our own personal sins are partly to blame for the many social sins that affect our society.

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True

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True or false: The creation story based on Genesis is a purely fictitious legend.

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False

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It is during the Exodus story that God revealed his deepest nature and character as being _____________.

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compassionate

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The three parts of the prophets’ message are ______________, repentance, and day of the Lord.

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accusation

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Where is this passage taken from?: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free.”

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Luke 4:18

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According to Bishop Robert Barron, what is the original sin?

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Deciding for ourselves what is good and evil

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What does Jesus tell his followers he must do to become king and bring peace?

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Take the full effect of humanity’s evil unto Himself

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What does it mean to “do the way of the Lord” like Abraham and his family?

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Righteousness and justice

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It refers to the actual sinful situation into which we are born with the inner effect of disordered desires we all experience within us.

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Original sin

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Where is this passage taken from?”Let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ , and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.”

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Romans 13:13-14

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_____ is the stuff about God which we can learn based on the stuff around us.

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General revelation

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_____ is the stuff God has revealed to us directly.

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Special revelation

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What are the 4 sources of doing Theology?

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Scripture, Tradition, Experience, & Reasoning

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Who wrote Genesis 1?

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Priestly Tradition

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Who wrote Genesis 2?

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Yahwist Tradition

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What are the 3 similarities of Genesis 1 & 2?

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  • One creator
  • God created everything good
  • Humans were created with a special role in taking care of God’s creation
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What do the two Genesis stories focus on?

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  • Genesis 1: Divine concern for creatures & dignity of human beings
  • Genesis 2: Importance of relationships
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True or false: The universe doesn’t exist so it can give something to God. The universe exists so God can give something to it.

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True

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These are are basic evil inclinations or disvalues which are the origin of many sinful thoughts, words or deeds.

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Capital sin

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In what part of the Bible is the liberation of Israelites by Yahweh from slavery in Egypt?

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Exodus 1:1-15:21

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It is the year when Hebrew slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.

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The Jubilee

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In what passage does sin and evil enter the world through the willful disobedience of man who abused his God-given freedom at the dawn of history?

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Genesis 3

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In what passage is Mary pregnant with Jesus when she visits Elizabeth, proclaiming her Magnificat?

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Luke 1:46-56

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The prophets condemn injustice done to the poor as a sign of Israel’s unfaithfulness

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Hosea 14, Amos 5, Micah 2, etc.

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The Bible verse that discusses when Hebrew slaves and prisoners would be freed, debts would be forgiven, and the mercies of God would be particularly manifest.

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Leviticus 25

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Having received the Holy Spirit, the disciples perform wonders, such as healing the sick.

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Acts 2

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Letters to the persecuted churches use coded language to exhort them to persevere in public witness thru saintly deeds, acts of justice, and work to establish God’s kingdom.

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Revelation 5:10, 19:8, 20:6, 21:2

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In the synagogue, Jesus reads from Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor…”

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Luke 4:18

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During his ministry, Jesus shows mercy to the needy, grants pardon, shows concern for the weak performs exorcisms, and heals the sick.

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Lk 16, Mt 6, Mk 9, Mt 4

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The disciples establish the Christian community, in which all members have enough and “there was no needy person among them.”

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Acts 4:32-35

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Early Christians must live out Jesus’ commandment of love, to be doers of the Word, to refrain from showing partiality toward the rich and from defrauding laborers, and to implement worship through Christian living.

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James 1, 2; Hebrews 10, 12

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Jesus’ parables, such as the Good Samaritan and the Sheep and the Last Judgement, show God’s special love for the poor and the stranger which we are to imitate.

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Luke 10:25-37, Matthew 25:31-40

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Paul chastises a community for divisions according to social class, presenting a vision for Eucharistic community as one body of Christ.

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1 Corinthians 10-11

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Jesus washes the disciples’ feet calling them to love and serve others in the same way.

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John 13:1-7

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Israelites who had a radical encounter with God and were commissioned to speak on God’s behalf

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Prophets

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God promised through the prophets the Messiah who will bring peace, restore justice, and become the light of the world.

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Isaiah 42:1-7

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Jesus preached and taught with 3 things:

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Certainty
Authority
Power

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Who was the Pope who first started Vatican II?

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Pope John XXIII (Good Pope John)

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Who was the Pope who saw Vatican II through?

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Pope Paul VI (Pilgrim Pope)

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It is the proclaiming of the Gospel in Word and Sacrament to bring about a personal conversion that impels one to active involvement in the process of human development and liberation. It brings a living Gospel into our everyday lives.

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Integral Evangelization

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It must aim first of all at the formation of Catholics in a properly integrated spirituality: an integrated spirituality that unites faith in the Lord with justice and charity to His brothers and sisters and joins together a hope for the world to come with an intense commitment to transform the world

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Renewed evangelization

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True or false: Evangelization remains in the confines of the Church building.

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False

43
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This saint was kidnapped and taken to Ireland. In his writings he condemns the practice of slavery. Some commentators dub him as the first Christian writer.

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St. Patrick

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Patron saint of environmentalists

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St. Francis of Assisi

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He is known for his impressive Summa theologiae, a comprehensive integration of Christian theology.

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St. Thomas Aquinas

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This saint experienced the Black Plague and a radically divided church.

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St. Catherine of Siena

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This saint responded to a spiritual call that meant saving France from the English.

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St. Joan of Arc

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This saint organized a group of women to consecrate lives to service of God through educating the poor. The group came to be known as the Ursulines.

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St. Angela Merici

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e affirmed their human dignity and defended their rights in the face of genocide and slavery by his countrymen.

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Bartolome de las Casas

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This saint formed a community of women who became known as the Daughters of Charity. They founded hospitals, orphanages, and schools.

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St. Louise de Marillac

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A social outcast, he became a person of undying compassion for the poor and marginalized, particularly Indians and African slaves.

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St. Martin de Porres

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He is most remembered for organizing groups within parishes to feed and clothe the hungry.

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St. Vincent de Paul

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Referred to as the founder of international law, this saint mdefended the rights of native peoples in his philosophical treatises.

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Francisco de Vitoria

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For 50 years she participated in and led protests against child labor and actions for fair working conditions. She also pushed the church to play a larger role in addressing social justice.

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Mary Harris Jones

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He was an outspoken critic of the prevailing economic conditions of the workers.

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Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler

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In her biography she wrote about “the little way-performing small, everyday actions and taking only daily sufferings out of love for God.”

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St. Therese of Lisieux

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This was the name given to a group of Catholics, most of whom were laypeople, who met regularly to study social problems. They suggested concrete proposals that influenced the writing of Rerum Novarum.

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Fribourg Union

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His books, such as A Living Wage and Distributive Justice, served as an intellectual foundation for Catholic activism.

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John Ryan

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He was very active in the movement for racial justice. He published articles and books on racism, calling it a sin.

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John LaFarge

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His most enduring legacy may have been his involvement in the development of the understanding of human rights that came to be articulated in the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Jacques Maritain

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was a German Jew and declared atheist who earned a doctorate in philosophy before she converted to Catholicism in 1921.

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Blessed Edith Stein

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In an attempt to punish prisoners, the Nazis picked ten random men from a unit to be tortured and killed. This saint offered to go in place of another man and was then killed.

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St. Maximillian Kolbe

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This saint moved to Canada in 1920 after the First World War. Ten years later she moved into an apartment in the slums of Toronto and created Friendship House, a place where the poor could find shelter and a meal.

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Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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This saint, and her colleague, Peter Maurin (1877-1949), founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933. The Catholic Worker, with its houses of hospitality (soup kitchens and homeless shelters), its newspapers, its farms, and its nonviolent social activism has had dramatic impact on American Catholic social thought.

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Dorothy Day

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He was the most important American Catholic theologian of the 20th century. His writings on religious freedom, separation of church and state, and pluralism had a dramatic effect on Catholic thinking about being American, Protestant America’s view of Catholicism, and European Catholicism’s view of the American political context.

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Fr. John Courtney Murray

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He believed joining the Nazis would be a mortal sin. He followed his conscience and faced the consequences. He was beheaded by the Nazis for refusing to serve in Hitler’s army.

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Blessed Franz Jagerstatter

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Living under a brutal military dictatorship, he was a staunch defender of the poor, promoter of human rights and democracy, and a tireless advocate of nonviolent action.

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Dom Helder Camara

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In 1946, she had a “call within a call” to help the poor while living among them. For the next 50 years, she worked with the poorest of the poor in Calcutta, India.

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St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta

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In his writing he linked faithfulness with, among other things, the issues of racism, wat and the environment.

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Thomas Merton

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He was killed while saying Mass the day after he had preached a passionate sermon broadcast on the radio ordering soldiers to stop killing their Salvadoran brothers and sisters.

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St. Archbishop Oscar Romero

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He is perhaps the most widely known Catholic peace activist in the United States. In 1969, he, along with 8 other Catholics, entered the office of a U.S. Draft Board and burned draft files to protest the Vietnam War and the church’s silence about it.

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Daniel Berrigan

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He committed his life to protecting and promoting the dignity of farm workers in California. His efforts were rooted in his Catholic faith and informed by the social encyclicals and the life of St. Francis of Assisi.

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Cesar Chavez

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He is a Peruvian priest who was educated in Rome and worked for many years in the slums of Lima. His experience of the oppressive poverty there led him to the realization that poverty is not an accident of history.

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Gustavo Gutierrez

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She is the leading voice in the Catholic position on the death penalty. She is perhaps the leading anti-death penalty advocate in the United States.

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Helen Prejean

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Her writings about the history and conditions of the suffering in Latin America had profound impact on Christians around the world. She became a “voice for the voiceless” as her writing became her act of faith.

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Penny Lernoux

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He was a chaplain for the outlawed Solidarity, a trade union federation, in Communist Poland during the 1980s. As the government repressed the workers and other Solidarity members, he actively promoted their cause, linking the church to the sufferings of the people.

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Jerzy Popieluszko

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He was deeply involved in the populist nonviolent movement that brought down the Communist government in Poland. He worked in the Gdansk shipyard and became the leader of Solidarity. Solidarity was founded in 1980 by striking workers at the shipyard. A man of deep faith, he was continually harassed and imprisoned by the government.

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Lech Walesa

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It is a theology that seeks to bring the message of the Gospel to a concrete struggle for human liberation and to express the Gospel in its essential liberating core.

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Liberation Theology

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Who founded liberation theology?

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Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez

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A Brazilian liberation theologian who responded to critiques and clarified that liberation theology is not equal to Marxism.

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Clodovis Boff

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Who said this quote?

“We have never preached violence, except the violence of love, which left Christ nailed to a cross, the violence that we must each do to ourselves- to overcome our selfishness and such cruel inequalities among us.”

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St. Archbishop Oscar Romero

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It refers to situations or structures of society which cause or support, or which cause us to fail, thru complicity or indifference, to correct evils and injustices when it is possible to do so.

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Social sin

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The 3-step process of how personal sin becomes a social sin

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  1. Externalization
  2. Objectivation
  3. Internalization
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3 types of social sin

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Structures
Situations
Complicty/Indifference

85
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New models of sin

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  • a spiral of evil that ensnares
  • a sickness that weakens; and
  • a compulsive and obsessive addiction that enslaves. (CFC 788)
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3 elements of conversion to social justice

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Conversion of feet (a new experience)
Conversion of head (A new reality)
Conversion of heart (A new lifestyle)

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