Catholic Social Teaching Chapter 2 Vocabulary

The Church's social doctrine.

The official teaching authority of the church.

Moral law that can be understood through the use of reason.

A social-economic system based on the common ownership of the means of production and exchange of wealth.

A social or political system in which all economic and social activity is controlled by a totalitarian government dominated by a single political party.

The Catholic virtue of social charity and friendship

Looking after something so it can be passed on to the next generation.

This social justice principle deals with the essential roles of voluntary organization:

The demand for an account of one's acts; it includes accepting the consequences of those acts.

The goods that are owed to a person by nature. Natural rights are inviolable and belong to every human being because of his or her inherent dignity as a person, possessing a rational intellect and free will.