Exploring Catholic Social Teaching
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Chapter Activities<br />
Handout A<br />
Focus and Reflection Questions<br />
1 What is the foundation of justice? The<br />
foundation of justice is the nature and dignity<br />
of the human person and the need for<br />
others to respect what belongs to us.<br />
2 What do we owe each person in order to<br />
have a just society? Love.<br />
Handout A<br />
Focus and Reflection Questions<br />
1 What is the foundation of justice?<br />
2 What do we owe each person in order to have a just society?<br />
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3 What is the Golden Rule? Where can we<br />
find it in Scripture? “So whatever you wish<br />
that men would do to you, do so to them; for<br />
this is the law and the prophets” (Matt. 7:12).<br />
3 What is the Golden Rule? Where can we fi nd it in Scripture?<br />
4 What are the four basic expressions of justice that the Church identifi es?<br />
5 What makes up distributive justice? Explain two key principles.<br />
6 How do citizens uphold legal justice?<br />
7 When is it morally permissible, and even necessary, to break a law?<br />
4 What are the four basic expressions<br />
of justice that the Church identifies?<br />
Distributive, legal, commutative, social.<br />
8 What does commutative justice regulate? Whom does it involve?<br />
9 What is the difference between a covenant and a contract, and how do both refl ect commutative<br />
justice?<br />
10 What is social justice? Why is social justice incompatible with socialism?<br />
5 What makes up distributive justice?<br />
Explain two key principles. Distributive justice<br />
pertains to what any community or social<br />
organization owes to its individual members.<br />
Distributive justice also pertains to the fairness<br />
surrounding rewards and punishments.<br />
11 Why is supporting those in need not a matter of charity but of justice?<br />
12 What injustices did St. Martin de Porres experience in his family life? In the Dominican community?<br />
What lessons can we learn from his response?<br />
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6 How do citizens uphold legal justice? By<br />
obeying just laws and respecting those in<br />
positions of legitimate authority over us.<br />
7 When is it morally permissible, and even necessary, to break a law? Laws that are a matter of convention<br />
or custom will often admit exceptions that do not result in a sin if we have a good and compelling<br />
reason to break them. When a civil law is unjust, it may actually be not just permissible but necessary to<br />
violate it in order to remain obedient to God’s will.<br />
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