Catholic morality and laws

Catholic Natural Law

Mr Webbs Class

Just a Recap

• There are four types of laws

• Natural

• Divine

• Human

• Gods

• All of these Laws Should be in harmony with Gods law at the Top

Multiple Choice

What law goes first?

• Divine

• Gods

• Human

• Natural

What is Natural Law?

• Natural Law participates in the Eternal Law. or Gods Law

• Natural Law is made for rational beings that are ordered towards an end

Natural Law

Natural law is used to identify "Unatural" or immoral things.

Natural law answers the question "What must I do" "i must do what is "Natural"

Eat, sleep, ect

Poll

What Law is practiced the most ?

• Gods

• Natural

• Divine

• Human

WHat does this have to do with anything?

As humans we are created unique. We are made in the image of God, We must receive our entire being from God

We live in Order

• God Created a Ordered Universe

• Gods Kingdom has a hierarchy

• We must live ordered Lives

Disordered

• Someone who has a tendency to sin has a disorder

• This is because we are ordered towards perfection

• This perfection is what we must strive for

• If we are nopt working towards perfection what are we working towards

Multiple Choice

We are Ordered towards...

• Heaven

• God

• Perfection

• Order

Multiple Choice

What is a Disorder?

• Anything not following God

• Our Natural inclination

• Our Natural Being

• Anything Following God

We Understand our Morality

• Morality is derived from many sources

• Every Moral act is consists of three elements: The Act, The Subjective Goal, and the Circumstance

• For an act to be moral or Good it must be ordered towards perfection

Multiple Choice

Which Of the Following is NOT what a moral act consists of?

• Circumstance

• Time Frame

• The act

• Goal

Sin is Real.

• This is the truth our world hides

• Natural law dictates that there are things that go against it

• If we don't recognize sin then there is no morality, truth, or objective right and wrong.

• Not everything can be right, think about it, someone is wrong

What is Truth?

• Truth demands to be known

• Truth is echoing from our very being

• Two opposing things can not be true

• Truth means in accordance with fact or reality

• She is either the Mother of God or she is not.

IT IS NOT YOUR TRUTH

• Truth can not be owned, it is

• We can not claim that the Catholic Church's truth states this but the Buddhist Truth says differently

• There can only be one truth, if there are multiple truths, then by definition they are not truth

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Poll

There can be multiple truths

• Yes

• No

Multiple Choice

In accordance with fact or reality

• Morality

• Sin

• Acceptance

• Truth

Multiple Select

What is a truth held by the Catholic Church ?

• Jesus died on a "T" Cross

• Mary appeared in Fatima to the children

• Mary was assumed into heaven BODY and SOUL

• Mary was assumed SOUL only

Like it or not...

• Truth Does not need our permission

• Whether or not we like it truth is truth

• We can not be "Cafeteria Catholics" And pick and choose

• This is why there are so many non Catholic Faiths people want the truth to follow them.

• We can not decide truth God does

Multiple Choice

Who decides Truth

• Pope

• God

• Me

• Priest

Multiple Choice

Who decides Truth

• Pope

• God

• Me

• Priest