Justice and Virtues

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• Justice and Virtues

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Virtue

• Habitual and firm disposition to do the good.

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Cardinal Virtues

• Hinge virtues that enable us to live moral
  lives.

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Theological Virtues

• God-given virtues that direct us to our loving,
  Triune God.

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Prudence
Virtue

• - Good common sense human reason married to
  truth.

Fortitude
- Courage to do what is true and right.
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Temperance
Virtue

• - Moderates the attraction of pleasures and
  provides balance in the use of created goods.

Justice
- We give God and our neighbor what is their due
by right.
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Faith
Virtue

• - Empowers us to believe in God and all that
  God has said and revealed to us, including
  what the Church proposes for our belief,
  because God is truth itself.

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Hope
Virtue

• - Empowers us to trust in Gods promises.

Charity/Love
- Enables us to love God above everything and to
love our neighbor as ourselves.
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Justice As A Virtue

• - Commutative Justice
• The justice of exchange.
• Calls for fairness in agreements and exchanges
  between individuals or private social groups.
• Equality based on what is
• given and what is received.

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- Distributive Justice
Justice As A Virtue

• Justice that guarantees the common welfare.
• Involves sharing.
• Just distribution of the goods of creation that
  God intends all of us to
• use and share.
• Concerns the obligation of the government to its
  citizens.

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- Legal Justice
Justice As A Virtue

• Citizens obligations toward the larger society
  and government.
• Requires a citizen to obey the laws of society
  and possibly serve the government.

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- Social Justice
Justice As A Virtue

• Applies the Gospel message of Jesus Christ to
  the structures, systems, and laws of society in
  order to guarantee the rights of individuals.
• Ensures that persons have a fair say in social,
  political, and
• economical institutions
• of society.

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The Bible on Justice

• - Justice in the Old Testament
• Gods faithfulness to the covenant made with
  Abraham
• despite the unfaithfulness
• of the Chosen People.

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The Bible on Justice

• - Justice in the New Testament
• God brought His covenant to fulfillment by
  sending Jesus Christ.
• Jesus words and actions show us the Kingdom
  of God.

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The Bible on Justice

• - Justice in the New Testament
• Jesus taught the love of God and love of
  neighbor as oneself are the Greatest
  Commandments.
• In order to embrace Gods kingdom, one must
  live according to the Beatitudes.
• We are to respond to the needs of the least
  in our midst.

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The Bible on Justice

• - Justice in the New Testament
• Our neighbor is everyone. (Parable of the Good
  Samaritan)
• Be compassionate about the needs of others.
• Jesus passion death and resurrection was an act
  of love for all to save us.
• Jesus formed a just community to carry on his
  work after his ascension.
• Criteria to be a member of the
• community is to SERVE.

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Catholic Social Teaching on Justice

• - Early Christians shared their property and
  goods, condemned selfishness, and encouraged
  sharing.

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Catholic Social Teaching on Justice

• - Modern Teaching
• Rerum Novarum (The Condition of Labor) written by
  Pope Leo XIII to condemn the abuses of Marxist
  socialism and unbridled capitalism.
• - Marked the beginning
• of the Churchs social
• teaching in the modern
• era.

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Social Justice is Essential

• - Working for Justice in an essential dimension
  of Christian living.

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The Immigration Issue

• Refugee A person who leaves his or her country
  and is unwilling to return due to persecution.
• Immigrant A person who leaves one country to
  take up permanent residence in another country.
• Migrant One who moves
• within ones country or
• between countries in search
• of work.