1 / 6

Catholic Moral Teachings

Catholic Moral Teachings. What is a conscience?. We believe our conscience to be God’s voice It helps us to make moral decisions – that is, decisions that show love for God, self and others Morality in Catholicism is determined in part by natural law .

mio
Download Presentation

Catholic Moral Teachings

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Catholic Moral Teachings

  2. What is a conscience? • We believe our conscience to be God’s voice • It helps us to make moral decisions – that is, decisions that show love for God, self and others • Morality in Catholicism is determined in part by natural law. • natural law – what the mind discovers of morality from understanding the world and humans • List 3 actions you would consider to be against natural law

  3. Legitimate Authority • Catholic teachings say that obeying authority is part of the 4th commandment • Legitimate authority – those that are recognized by society and serve the common good • Common good: • Allows all people to meet their full potential • Built upon respect • Achieved when all people feel reasonably secure

  4. Identifying legitimate authority • The Canadian government is a legitimate authority – why? • The Church says that authority is NOT legitimate when it: • does not respect its weaker members • does not work to promote good relations among all people (even “enemies”!). • What is an example of an authority that is not legitimate?

  5. How can I analyze a moral decision? • identify the following: • The moral object (what action is involved) • The intention (why the action is chosen) – cannot make an evil act good • The circumstances– also cannot make an evil act good • Read “The Morality of Human Acts” on page 36 from “What’s Right? What’s Wrong”. Identify the 3 characteristics of the act from the story.

  6. Small group work • The 10 Commandments are said to be an expression of natural law – in your group, list them • Fill in your charts using the moral issues that are being passed around

More Related