Unit II: Rights and Responsibilites

A teaching letter from the Pope to the members of the Church on topics of social justice, human rights, and peace.

• social doctrine

• social encyclical

• Pacem in Terris

• Papal dispensation

The body of teaching by the Church on economic and social matters that includes moral judgments and demands for action in favor of those being harmed.

• social doctrine

• social encyclical

• Pacem in Terris

• Papa dispensation

The "right to worship God according to one's conscience" is an example of a(n):

• justice right

• subsidiarity

• Pacem in Terris 

• human right

The responsibility that society has for safeguarding essential human rights and ensuring the just distribution of the earth's resources, with special regard for those whose basic needs are going unmet.

• Distributive justice

• Commutative Justice

• Legal Justice

• subsidiarity

Accepts the anthropological basis of the Catholic tradition—the dignity of the human person and the fact that the human person is social by nature.

• subsidiarity

• Commutative Justice

• Pacem in Terris

• legal justice

Moral principle that large organizations and governments have the responsibility to support the good of human beings, families, and local communities.

• Legal Justice

• human rights

• Distributive justice

• subsidiarity

The cardinal virtue concerned with rights and duties within relationships.

• prudence

• justice

• fortitude

• temperance

Commitment to ensure all persons, particularly poor/oppressed, receive what is due them.

• subsidiarity

• human rights

• temperance

• justice

Fairness in agreements and contracts between individuals. Equal exchange of goods, money, and services.

• Legal Justice

• Distributive justice

• Commutative Justice

• subsidiarity

Which is NOT a condition for a Just War?

• Declared by Papal authority.

• Declared by lawful authority.

• Must be just cause and right intention

• Weapons must be used in a way that protects lives of innocent people.