Unit 2 Module 2 and 6 Flashcards
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Religious Belief (Studied Religious Belief)
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Catholics believe all people are created in the image and likeness of God
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Religious Teaching (Studied Religious Teaching)
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The Catholic Church has taught that the God-given dignity of each person needs to be respected and upheld individually and by society
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Belief
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A religious belief is a conviction about an idea central to a religion that expresses of religious truth. Religious beliefs offer insights and understandings about life. These find expression in a variety of religious teachings and practices.
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Teaching
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Religious teachings guide and inform how people respond to religious belief. E.g. Catholic Social Teaching is a body of Catholic Church teachings that call people to put into practice important beliefs about God and God’s creation, including each person.
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Catholic Social Teachings on social justice
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- Catholic Social Teaching (CST) offers a way of thinking, being and seeing the world. It provides a vision for a just society in which the dignity of all people is recognised, and those who are vulnerable are cared for.
- The Catholic Church teaching on social justice relates to people and their lives. The Catholic Church has taught that the God-given dignity of each person needs to be respected and upheld individually and by society
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Social Justice
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- A desire for justice appears to be part of the human condition and many examples indicate this, including concern for the environment.
- A strong sense of injustice exists in the young and the desire for justice for others grows with maturity. Injustices revolve around structures or human actions within society that result in people being treated unfairly or unjustly.
- Social justice is the promotion of just societies and treatment of individuals and communities based on the belief that each person possesses an innate human dignity.
- Catholics believe that people show concern for justice because God is just, and human nature has been created in the image and likeness of the God. Further, each person is called to act justly because each person is called to value the God-given dignity of each and every person.
- Justice has to do with respecting the rights of others. Every relationship involves some exchange of rights, for example:
- parents ensure the rights of their children
- children respect the rights of their parents
- married people have responsibilities towards each other
- teachers and students have responsibilities towards each other
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Fundamental Religious Beliefs
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- God is creator of all
- Each person is created in the image and likeness of God; therefore, each person is deserving of dignity and respect
- Each person is called to be a steward of God’s creation
- These beliefs are in turn the basis of a range of religious teachings that seek to support and promote justice. The dignity of the human person is at the heart of the Church’s social teaching (social doctrine).
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Created in the image and likeness of God:
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- The Catholic belief ‘everyone is created in the image and likeness of God’ and the subsequent Church teaching on Social Justice aims to show people what a meaningful and purpose life looks like and how to live such a life.
- Many people are concerned about fulfilling their responsibilities towards God, the One who created and who sustains human life.
- Jesus Christ is the perfect role model, showing Catholics how they can strive for justice in their lives.
- Many adolescents show great generosity by giving money and goods to organisations such as Caritas. Many also give generously of their time to worthy causes such as helping the destitute.
- In adulthood the extent to which people express their concern for justice reflects the extent to which they have developed a sense of the rights of others.
- Many people work tirelessly to make the institutions, customs, organisations, legal and political structures of their countries more just.
- Many have also died for the sake of justice.
- People of justice recognise that the human rights of others take precedence over national boundaries and the privileges of the powerful in any society.
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Catholic Social Teachings (Created in the image and likeness of God)
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- Through the CST’s the Church shows a way to reflect on the world as it is here and now, but always viewing it as God’s world, entrusted to us, and viewing all others as our brothers and sisters.
- The body of teaching provides principles for reflection, criteria for judgment and guidelines for action that help people to build up the Reign of God in the world.
- People reflect the vision Jesus taught in their daily lives as they:
- show love in the ways they use and share the earth’s resources
- use resources only as necessary and in ways that are good
- live simply rather than exploiting the earth’s resources
- respect human life from conception
- People follow Jesus as they seek to integrate Christian faith and its values into their lives.
- Catholic Social Teaching serves as a guide for how people can do this in current circumstances.
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What examples illustrate the relationship between people and God
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- Working against discrimination
- Mitigating the effects of climate change on communities
- Ensuring workers are valued and treated fairly
- Preventing the marginalisation of people from society
- Challenging unjust government policies that contribute to the oppression of some people in a society
- Ensuring the powerful don’t abuse their power
- Promoting peace instead of violence
- Ensuring men, women, and children can flourish
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Damien of Molokai
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- St. Damien of Molokai was born on January 3rd, 1840, Tremelo, Belgium. He was a Belgian priest who devoted his life to missionary work among the Hawaiian lepers and became a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Moved by the miserable condition of the lepers whom the Hawaiian government had deported to Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai, he volunteered to take charge of the settlement.
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Module 6
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- Christians draw upon, express and deepen their faith through a variety of rituals and practices.
- They can find comfort, guidance and support by participating in religious rituals and practices.
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Penance
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- Penance is an act of prayer or self denial carried out by a person as part of his/her sorrow for sin and decision to turn to God and away from evil.
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Features of Penance
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- The sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation is the method used by the Church by which individuals may confess sins committed after baptism and have them absolved by a priest.
- The intent of this sacrament is to provide healing for the soul as well as to regain the grace of God, lost by sin.
- Within the Church today the sacrament of penance focuses on conversion, a change of heart. Conversion is an ongoing process and is an acknowledgement of, and a turning towards God.
- In the Sacrament of Penance, God’s call to conversion is made present to us, and our efforts to respond to that call include a remaking of relationships with God and with others. God’s forgiveness is offered through the priest
- Penance is a Sacrament for restoring fully a person’s relationship with God through reconciliation.
- As believers who celebrate this Sacrament sincerely allow the Holy Spirit to restore them to greater intimacy with God, their feeling of belonging to the community of Christ’s followers grows.
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Two things necessary for true reconciliation
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- The genuine conversion of the individual
- The forgiveness of God
