CHAPTER EIGHT

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CHAPTER EIGHT

• Respect for Life

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Who Deserves Our Love

• We must love each person as a unique individual,
  a person with dignity and worth because that is
  how God loves us.
• We need to love ourselves in order to love God
  and others.

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Healthy Self-Love
self-esteem
A sense of happiness and contentment about who
you are as a human being.
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Healthy Self-Love

• Growing in Self-Esteem
• How?
• Pray for the gift of faith to know and believe
  that God loves you unconditionally.
• List all of the people who accept you as you are.
• Ask God to forgive your sins.
• Learn from mistakes and let them go.
• Laugh at yourself.
• Practice humility.
• Praise and thank God.

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The Fourth Commandment

• Honor your Father and Mother
• This commandment helps regulate relationships
  within our social groups where authority is
  exercised.
• Honor involves respect, admiration, and
  recognition of ones dignity.
• Honor flows from the virtue of justice.

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The Fourth Commandment

• Honor
• This commandment promotes family values.
• The family is the domestic church which mirrors
  the love and community of the Triune God.
• Every human being is worthy of honor, especially
  parents.
• Children should honor their parents by observing
  their wishes. Parents should honor their
  children as precious images of God, and respect
  their vocation and career choices.

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The Fourth Commandment
Honor your father and mother.
ageism
Prejudice against old people
Any action or omission which of itself and by
intention causes death, with the purpose of
eliminating suffering (Gospel of Life, 65).
euthanasia
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The Fifth Commandment

• You shall not kill.
• Human life comes from and returns to God.
• This commandment teaches respect for human life
• It condemns as gravely sinful any direct,
  intentional killing.

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The Fifth Commandment
Special Examples of Killing

• Capital Punishment
• Criminals do merit punishment for their crimes.
• Purpose of punishment
• To set right the disorder caused by criminal
  offenses
• To preserve public order and personal safety
• To correct the offender
• Revenge can never be the motive for our actions.

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The Fifth Commandment
Special Examples of Killing

• Capital Punishment
• Reasons U.S. Bishops oppose capital punishment in
  A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death
• The sanction of death, when it is not necessary
  to protect society, violates respect for human
  life and dignity.
• State-sanctioned killing in our names diminishes
  all of us.
• Its application is deeply flawed and can be
  irreversibly wrong.
• We have other ways to punish criminals and
  protect society.

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The Fifth Commandment
Special Examples of Killing

War
The Catholic Church is against war, always
promoting a peaceful settlement of disputes.
The Catholic Church recognizes that governments
have the right and responsibility to pass laws to
enlist citizens to help defend the nation.
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The Fifth Commandment
Special Examples of Killing

• Conditions to fight in a just war
• There must be a real, lasting, grave and certain
  danger.
• War must be a last resort.
• The rights and values in the conflict must be
  important enough to justify killing.
• War has to be waged for the noblest reasons and
  with a commitment for postwar reconciliation with
  the enemy.

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The Fifth Commandment
Special Examples of Killing

• Conditions to fight in a just war
• Only proper representation of the people have the
  right to declare a war of defense.
• The chance of success must be calculated against
  the human cost of war.
• Armed conflict must not create even worse evil
  than that to be eliminated.

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The Fifth Commandment
Special Examples of Killing

• The moral law hold in times of warfare. There
  must be no attacks on innocent noncombatants
  genocide terrorism or use of nuclear,
  biological, or chemical weapons all of which
  indiscriminately destroy persons and property.

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The Fifth Commandment
Abortion and Other Violations Against the Fifth
Commandment

The deliberate killing of unborn human life by
means of medical or surgical procedures. Direct
abortion is seriously wrong because it is an
unjustified attack on human life.
abortion
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The Fifth Commandment
Abortion and Other Violations Against the Fifth
Commandment The fifth commandment forbids
scandal kidnapping hostage-taking torture of
prisoners terrorist acts and bodily mutations,
amputations, and sterilizations performed for
non-medical purposes.

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The Fifth Commandment
What Can we do About Abortion?

• Respect all life.
• Dont judge others.
• Pray.
• Get involved.
• Be informed.

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The Fifth Commandment

• Corporal Works of Mercy
• The Church holds that one is not guilty of the
  sin of euthanasia when a decision is made with
  the patients approval to withhold aggressive
  medical treatment.
• Extraordinary means (like a heroic and costly
  operation on a dying patient) can be refused
• Ordinary means (food, oxygen) should always be
  used to care for the sick.
• A person may take painkillers to lessen suffering.

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The Fifth Commandment
Corporal Works of Mercy
Taking of ones own life

Suicide
We should not judge. We should pray.
Suffering of grave psychological
problems
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The Fifth Commandment
Corporal Works of Mercy

Assisted Suicide
The intentional assistance of any dying or
suffering person in taking his or her own life.
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Respecting Personal Health

The Fifth Commandment requires us to exercise the
virtue of prudence to take care of our health,
one of Gods precious gifts to us. However, we
should not make our bodies our god.
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Respecting Personal Health

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Respecting Personal Health

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Vocabulary

• Self-esteem
• Euthanasia
• Abortion
• Suicide
• Assisted suicide
• Cardinal virtues
• Prudence
• Justice
• Fortitude
• Temperance
• Abstinence
• Sobriety
• Chastity