Across
- 4. the moral content of an action that suggests whether the action is directed toward the true good.
- 6. repeated behaviors that are good (virtues) or bad (vices)
- 14. a decision-making process that attends to the implications and consequences of an action of course.
- 15. ascribed, attributed, or definitely linked to a specific accountable person or entity.
- 17. God’s peace, justice, and love that was proclaimed by Jesus and inaugurated in His life, death, and resurrection. It refers to the process of God reconciling and renewing all things through His Son, to the fact of His will being done on Earth as it is in Heaven. The process has begun with Jessu and will be perfectly completed at the end of time.
- 18. panic in the face of danger
- 22. the aim or objective for a course of action
- 23. an ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the one who is in charge of a community.
- 24. vows taken to poverty, chastity, and obedience in order to live the Gospel more fully.
- 26. Guideline or law that can help regulate human freedom toward what is true and good and, therefore, towards God.
- 28. Special gifts from the Holy Spirit gives to individual Christians to build up the Church
- 29. reasoned participation of humans in God’s eternal law that reveals what God intends us to do and avoid according to his wise and loving pain
Down
- 1. not paying attention or being distracted while acting
- 2. the power, rooted in reason and will, to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility.
- 3. Religious orders that stress apostolic works life caring for the downtrodden and sick, teaching , or preaching.
- 5. minimal obligations for those to be in good standing with the Catholic Church
- 7. not knowing what we should do or not do
- 8. money or other possessions enslave us and we do not act with full freedom
- 9. The Holy Spirit ‘s grace that cleanses us from our sins through faith in Jesus Christ and baptism. It makes us right with God.
- 10. the conditions or facts attending an event and having some bearing on it. Circumstances can increase or decrease the moral goodness or evil of action
- 11. Greek for “repentance”... turning away from sin with the intention of living a Christian life.
- 12. the method, course of action, or instrument by which something can be accomplished
- 13. Religious order that put a focus on living a life centered on the celebration prayer, rather than on active ministry.
- 16. the mandate of all baptized Christians to follow Jesus and participate in His role as priest, prophet, and king.
- 19. the moral virtue that inclines us to lead good, ethical, and moral lives of action; “right reason of action” St. Aquinas
- 20. the philosophy that holds that every event, action, and decision results from something independent of the human will.
- 21. a free and unearned favor from God, infused into our souls at Baptism, that adopts us into God’s family and helps us to live as His children.
- 25. freedom is impeded when someone tries to force us to do something
- 27. full body of officially established rules governing the Catholic Church, which was last revised in 1983.