Exploring Catholic Social Teaching
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LESSON PLAN<br />
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Can you think of any unjust laws in force today? Laws permitting abortion or assisted suicide,<br />
laws requiring employers to provide contraception, sterilization, or abortion-causing drugs in<br />
violation of their conscience, and so forth.<br />
Do people today seem to have the fortitude needed to resist injustice? Do you believe you<br />
would have the fortitude?<br />
Remember that what God commands, He makes possible through His grace. The martyrs<br />
testify to this truth with their lives! Can you imagine a St. Thomas More today? A St.<br />
Catherine of Siena? If so, in what situation can you imagine it? If not, what does our culture<br />
need to do differently?<br />
Formative Assessment<br />
A. Have a student stand and read aloud from 2 Chronicles 20:6: [A]nd he said: “LORD, God of our<br />
ancestors, are you not God in heaven, and do you not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations?<br />
In your hand is power and might, and no one can withstand you.”<br />
B. After meditating on this verse for a few moments, students should begin to answer the<br />
scaffolding questions for each document on Handout D: Government, Obedience, and<br />
Persecution.<br />
DAY FIVE<br />
Have students synthesize all they have learned in this unit and craft a well-written response to the<br />
final question on Handout D: Government, Obedience, and Persecution.<br />
EXPLORING CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING, lesson 10<br />
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