Exploring Catholic Social Teaching
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Chapter at a Glance<br />
Enduring Understandings<br />
In this chapter, students will understand that…<br />
■ Justice is a moral virtue that leads the Christian to give God and neighbor their due.<br />
■ Distributive justice accounts for the needs, rewards, and punishments of a person.<br />
■ Legal justice requires one to obey just laws in the service of their society.<br />
■ Commutative justice is served through honoring contracts and conducting economic and social<br />
matters with fairness.<br />
■ <strong>Social</strong> justice necessitates that a member of society respects the dignity of other members and<br />
ensures especially the well-being of the poor and vulnerable.<br />
■ Justice must be tempered with love and mercy.<br />
Essential Questions<br />
■ What is justice, and what does it demand of a Christian?<br />
■ What are distributive justice, legal justice, commutative justice, and social justice?<br />
■ Why are regulations alone insufficient for a truly peaceful society?<br />
■ Why is it wrong to believe that justice alone can rightly order society?<br />
Lesson Plan<br />
ACTIVITY<br />
Handout A: Focus and Reflection Questions<br />
Handout B: Straight to the Source Primary Source Material<br />
Warm-Up: Handout C: The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus<br />
Activity #1: Handout D: Identifying and Applying the Kinds of Justice<br />
Activity #2: Handout E: Excerpt from “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<br />
Activity #3: Handout F: The Need for Conversion<br />
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