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Difference between ethics and morality.
Ethics: Rules or principles about right and wrong created by society or a profession (external). Morality: Personal beliefs about right and wrong (internal).
Christian understanding on Human Freedom
Christian freedom is seen as being fully realized when people choose to live according to God’s guidance.
Conscience in the teaching of the Church (52)
A properly formed conscience, guided by this inner sense, makes it easier to know what’s morally right. The Catechism describes this as “the law inscribed by God” in our hearts. Through loyalty to conscience Christians are joined to other men in the search for truth and for the right solution to so many moral problems which arise both in the life of individuals and from social relationships.
Explain Freud’s teachings on the Id, Ego and Superego and how they are related to the Catholic concept of conscience.
Id is that it is the devil/pleasure principle, ego is the reason principle and superego is the angel, know the iceberg theory.
.What are the Three senses of conscience?
Capacity, process, judgement
How is the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount express ethics in an eschatological sense – help on page 101.
The teaching of the Sermon on the Mount expresses ethics because the sermon sends us on an ethological journey.
Differences, similarities and the teachings of the Ten Commandments and Beatitudes
Commandments are a set of laws and if broken would be punishment, the beatitudes are a list of blessings that have a reward of heaven. The beatitudes are to give us a better understanding of the commandments.
Why are the Beatitudes more rigorous than the Decalogue? Be specific
because they focus on internal transformation rather than just external actions. While the Decalogue outlines rules like “Do not steal” or “Do not kill,” the Beatitudes challenge us to cultivate virtues like humility, mercy, and purity of heart.
Explain what are the 4 vocations that one can choose.
Single life- focus on career/community, married life-being with another person forever, holy orders-serve God be a priest, religious life-also serving God
Kinds of Euthanasia. Why does the church see both issues as mortal sin?
Voluntary: ending life in painless matter, give consent.
Non-voluntary: case in which the consent of the person is unavailable.
Active Euthanasia: purposely kill a person.
Passive Euthanasia: lacking the person of water/food and/or medication.
The 5 proofs that St. Thomas Aquinas gave for the existence of God.
Motion, cause and effect, existence, progression, and design.
How are the sacraments signs of God’s grace?
Sacraments are signs of God’s grace because the sacraments show that you are becoming a part of God’s family.
What is the difference between an annulment and divorce? What are the biblical reasons that the Church does not favour divorce?
The difference between an annulment and divorce is that a divorce is the end of the legal side of the marriage (the contract). An annulment means the marriage was not real or valid from the very beginning. The church does not favour divorce because divorces end only ends the marriage in the government not in the eyes of God.
