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Semester 1 Finals Flashcards

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When confronted with suffering in the world, what are two basic ways we can choose to respond?

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We can either do something about it or do nothing

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What are the four response to suffering?

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  • hopelessness
    -individualism
  • enlightened self-interest
  • compassion
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What are the three truths about human beings that result from their being made in the image of God?

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  • We were made good
  • We were made to be in relationship with God and others
  • We were mad free
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When accompanied by hope, what does compassion lead to?

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It moves people to commit themselves to easing suffering. It encourages them to love

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When accompanied by hope, what does compassion lead to?

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It moves people to commit themselves to easing suffering. It encourages them to love

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When accompanied by hope, what does compassion lead to?

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It moves people to commit themselves to easing suffering. It encourages them to love

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What is human dignity? Can anyone lose their human digingity? Why or why not

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Human dignity is the right of a person to be respected equality with basic necessities to life.
Nobody can loose their human dignity because they are always loved by God

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What are all least three ways God asked the Israelites to live out the law “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

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  • Do not set dishonest prices
  • Welcome every stranger
  • Every seven years,cancel all debts
  • Give your first part of your harvest to those in special need
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Accoring to the prophets, how is true love for God best shown?

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Compassion for others
- Love if God
-Love of neighbors

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Justice T

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The establishment of loving relationships amount human beings, God, and creation so life can flourish

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injustice

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A condition in which people have put obstacles in the way of loving relationships, thus preventing life from flourishing

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Accoring to Jesus and the prophets, how is true love for God best shown

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by loving one another

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How did Jesus invite each of the following groups of people into the kingdom of God: women,sick people, sinners, rich and powerful people, enemies?

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He included all people in his understanding of family . In his resurrection God showed unselfish love that led to new life.

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Kingdom of God

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Gods rule over all heaven and earth

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What is a Catholic Social Teaching?

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The church teaching that examines human society in the light of the Gospel and Church traditions

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Which economic and political system was the catholic worker newspaper and movement a reaction to?

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Union of Workers

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What are the 6 major elements of the solutions Pope Leo XIII offered in Rerum Novarum?

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Cooperation between classes, the divinity of humans, the just wages and workers associations, the role of the state, private ownership of property, and option for the poor

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What has been one of the most important results of Rerum Novarum for the Chruch?

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CST has become more focused on global issues

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Why does God call humanity to place the needs of the poor and vulnerable first?

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Because their needs r greater

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Why are Christians called to work for environmental justice?

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Because the environment is a work of god and it has beauty and value in itself

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Name the three steps of the circle faith in action

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Awareness, Annalise’s, and action

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Define the term worldview

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The way someone relates to the world

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Explain how someone’s expeirnace and culture shape a persons worldview

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Because that is their background and that affects how they look at the world

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How can we avoid being blind to injustice

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Being aware of our limitations

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Describe the characteristics of a love centered worldview?

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Seeing, hearing and knowing with respect, having a vision of abundant life, acting with compassion

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How can we become more aware of where we are being called to do justice?

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How we perceive a situation and put ourselves in someone else’s shoes

27
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What does “All creation is interdependent” mean

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We depend on one another for our existence

28
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What is social structure?

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Goverment, business, labor, education, families and law

29
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Explain difference between direct action and social action and expalin why we need both

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DIRECT ACTION: Charity meets immediate need
SOCIAL ACTION: Justice changes structures that cause injustice
Both are needed to move justice forward

30
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What does it mean to act for justice in solidarity

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Promote justice and peace

31
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How does action based in live confrontation those who primate injustice

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Because challenging injustice is not inconsistent with loving those who are responsible for the injustice

32
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What is the option for the poor and vulnerable

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CST that calls socially to make the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable a top concern

33
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What is poverty

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The experience of not having the basic thongs one needs to live a full and dignified life. Denies a persons human dignity

34
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Nearness of death

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Poor people are always at a greater risk of death than people who are not poor

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Living on the edge

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Bc families have so little, nothing rly makes life worse for them

36
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Cycle of poverty

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EX: Without a car, job opportunities are limited without a job, it is difficult to get a car

37
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Why does the church say that people deserve fair access to the resources of the earth and the human community

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So that they can fully develop their own unique ways of loving God and others

38
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Compare and contrast how the 2 forms of chronic hunger affect people

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STARVATION: When the body does not receive enough calories to complete everyday activities
MALNUTRITION: An extreme meaty limited diet that can be life threatening

39
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Give 2 examples of the devastating effects of bad water and poor sanitation

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  1. People can contrast different diseases
  2. Youn children can die of dehydration from diarrhea
40
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How does the Catholic Church say weather nations should treat refugees

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Wealthier nations should welcome refugees

41
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List 3 common myths about hunger

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  1. There is nit enough food to feed the worlds growing population
  2. Most hungr is caused by droughts and natural disasters
  3. That poor people it’s need to work harder
42
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Development

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transforming the structures of society

43
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Living Simply

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Making choices that deepen our joy because they focus on essentials of life, and not just illusions on what brings you happiness

44
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Wealth gap

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The difference in assess and income between individuals in a society or between nations

45
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What is our cultures attitude toward material wealth? What is the Christian attitude toward material wealth?

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CULTURE: Material wealth is a good thing and is the key to happiness
CHRISTIAN: Rejects allusions because our life is about right relationships

46
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What’s re the 3 aspects of poverty of being?

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  • Forgetting our identity
  • Forgtting that we are called to community
  • Forgtting that we live within the limits of God
47
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Why does the CST reward wealth gap as a sign of injustice

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Bc those who have more resources than they need or could ever use are often reluctant to sagger them with those who lack basic nessecities

48
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How does the Eucharist call us to commitment o those who are poor?

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It unites us with Christ, as well as unties us with all those you yearn for fulfillness of life

49
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What conviction is at the heart of a Dutch artistic response to poverty

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If we share, there will always will be enough

50
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What does CST say should be the most important guide for making economic descions?

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Concern for human dignity

51
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What test the justice of society

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How it treats its poorest members

52
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Name 4 principles that guide simply living

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  • Humany dingy
  • Relationshios
  • Enviroment
  • Trust
53
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How does living simply better enable us to work to overcome poverty

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Makes it easier for us to share ourselves and our resources with those who are poor

54
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How does Catholic Social Teaching understand the term violence? How might this be different from most people’s definition of the word?

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Catholic social teachings defines violence as any human action that causes harm to the life or dignity of another person.

55
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What are the steps in the spiral of violence, and how can understanding the spiral contribute to peacemaking

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Basic injustice 2. Violent response 3. Violent counter response 4. Escalating violence 5. Followed by more injustice

56
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What is the difference between nonviolence and peace

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Peace is the outcome we hope for when responding to conflict with non-violence

57
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How can we define peace? What are two prerequisites of peace?

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Peace is the fulfillment of justice and love. The two prerequisites of peace is a firm determination to respect the dignity of other people and practice of kinship.

58
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Why does shalom require action?

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Shalom requires action because it is peacemaking and that means resolving conflicts and making amends.

59
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What is Jesus’ “third way”?

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Alternative to fight or flight when responding to conflict or violence

60
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What role does grace play in the Christian response to violence?

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Through grace we are provided with the Holy Spirit and through that we can achieve more than we think we can,

61
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What is pacifism?

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Is a legitimate moral choice as are self defense and defense of the innocent, even by armed forces

62
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What is the just-war theory?

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War is to be avoided, but limited violence may be used to protect the innocent after peaceful means have been exhausted

63
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What are the seven criteria for a just war?

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Just cause, competent authority, comparative justice, right intention, last resort, probability of success, proportionality

64
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Why does Pope Francis say that a just war is very difficult to invoke in modern times?

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Because its risks will probability always be greater than its supposed benefits

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