Across
- 1. Acts of Charity are actions of social ___ because they are individual actions responding to immediate needs and addressing symptoms of injustice.
- 4. In the parable of the ___ ___ Jesus teaches that our neighbor is everyone (two words).
- 8. A type of justice that sees to the just distribution of the goods of creation.
- 9. The power to perform deliberate actions on one’s own responsibility (2 words).
- 12. Rights that are inherent and beyond challenge.
- 13. Helps us desire heaven and eternal happiness, trusting firmly in Christ’s promises.
- 14. Individual ___ are the foundation, cause, and end of all social institutions.
- 16. This is the heart of Christian morality.
- 18. Our sins sometimes develop into ___ of sin that create unjust societies.
- 19. Before God we are all ___.
- 23. God’s plan written into the way he made things (two words).
- 25. Jesus takes the side of those most in ___, physically and spiritually.
- 29. All rights have corresponding ___.
- 30. The virtue of social charity, friendship, and responsible sharing whereby we recognize our interdependence.
- 32. The quality or state of being worthy, honored, or esteemed.
- 33. The life, death, Resurrection, and Ascension of Jesus (two words).
- 34. St. Therese’ ______ of Holiness consists of accepting God’s love for us, and living that out in everyday ways (two words).
- 35. He quoted Isaiah when he said: "The Spirit is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor…".
- 38. The U.S. Catholic bishops highlighted seven ___ that serve as the foundation of the Church’s social teaching.
- 40. Gives us the firmness, strength, and courage to deal with temptations, difficulties, and dangers in doing what is right.
- 44. An open-ended bond of love between God and his people.
- 45. Those who wish to embrace God’s kingdom must live according to the ___ Jesus expressed in the Sermon on the Mount.
- 46. One way individuals can make a difference.
- 47. He used an analogy in his letters that compared the members of the Church working for the common good with the different parts of the body working together (two words).
- 48. A type of justice that calls for fairness in exchanges between individuals and private groups.
- 50. This principle calls us to protect the people and all of God’s creation.
- 53. State of complete harmony humans had in the beginning between each other and with creation (two words).
- 54. A pastoral papal letter sent to the whole Church, sometimes to all people, on an important aspect of Church teaching.
- 57. Hinge virtues that enable us to live moral lives.
- 58. Claims we can make on each other and on society to guarantee attaining certain basic minimum conditions to live a truly human life.
- 59. The Genesis creation account reveals that each of us is made in ___ ___ (two words).
- 61. God revealed that the Divine ___ is communal and social.
- 62. The rules, ___ and procedures of society must serve people and not vice versa.
- 63. The most basic society to which humans belong.
- 64. Rights that are untouchable because they come from God.
- 65. A type of justice that applies the gospel message of Jesus Christ to the structures, systems, and laws of society in order to guarantee the rights of individuals.
- 66. The parable of the day ___ shows that God treats us in a way that differs from the world’s standards.
Down
- 1. A group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond them.
- 2. The establishment of a just society would be impossible without this.
- 3. One of the three essential elements of the common good: Social well-being and ___.
- 5. Enables us to love God above everything for his own sake and to love our neighbor as ourselves.
- 6. Good common sense, human reason married to truth.
- 7. A habitual and firm disposition to do good.
- 10. In the parable of the ___ and sheep we learn that our judgment is based on how we respond to the needs of the least in our midst.
- 11. Rights that are for every human being.
- 15. The natural law is unchangeable and ___.
- 16. A type of justice that regulates citizens’ obligations to the larger society and government.
- 17. The principle of dignity of work is concerned with the rights of ___.
- 20. The first Christians shared their ___ and goods.
- 21. Virtues that are God-given and direct us to our loving, Triune God.
- 22. The seminal social justice encyclical written by Pope Leo XIII (two words).
- 24. These laws on the national level are necessary to guarantee that basic human rights are respected in all states (two words).
- 26. The ___ ___ guides us to live loving and just lives as God intends (two words).
- 27. Biblical justice is ___ to God, neighbor, and to God’s created goods.
- 28. The free and undeserved gift of God’s loving and active presence in in our lives.
- 30. The principle of Catholic social teaching that holds that a higher unity of society should not do what a lower unit can do as well.
- 31. This enables us to recognize and understand God’s command to do good and avoid evil.
- 36. Jesus said that whoever wishes to be great among you will be your ___.
- 37. The sum of the spiritual, material, and social conditions needed for a person to achieve full human dignity (two words).
- 39. One of the three essential elements of the common good: ___ for the persons.
- 41. The ___ option for the poor sees things from their perspective.
- 42. Moderates the attraction of pleasures and provides balance in the use of created good.
- 43. The moral and cardinal virtue by which we give God and our neighbor what is their due right.
- 49. The state or condition of sin into which all generations of people are born (two words).
- 51. Though Charity and Justice work hand-in-hand, Charity cannot be a ___ for Justice.
- 52. Natural law is the basis of this (two words).
- 55. Empowers us to believe in God and all that God has said and revealed to us.
- 56. Original ___ is the first state of human beings in their relationship with God, symbolized by Adam and Eve’s sharing in the divine life in full communion with God.
- 60. The Church in the Modern World says that everyone must consider his every neighbor, without exception, as another ___.