Conception of education

* Association/Participation - we have to belong, every human being has a role to participate in society

* Call to Family - value to family, honoring family life (policies to protect families)

* Common Good - looking out for the needs of everyone, the greater good

* Communative Justice - reciprocal, basic contracts and agreements, basic but essential

* Distributive Justice - every individual and government has certain responsibilities (i.E paying taxes)

* Four Types of Justice (Aquinas) - 

1. Communative

2.Distributive 

3. Legal 

4. Social

* Human Dignity - every human being has inherent value and worth

Justice - every one gets their dues, every one is treated with basic human rights

* Legal Justice - for a thriving society, for safety and security, for the betterment of society, the better our legal justice system is, the better society is. (just because it's legal doesn't mean it's moral or ethical)

* Praxis Method - 

1. SEE- to get information, to become informed about the subject (who, what, when, where, and how)

2. JUDGE- finding out what faith says about the issue using scripture, Catholic social teaching, papal teaching, etc. 

3. ACT- doing something to change the issue, putting in place laws, protests, either local or global.

* Preferential Option for the Poor - the Church's primary resources should be going to care for the poor and oppressed

* Pyramid of Practical Theology - Tradition: faith tradition, what does my faith tell me about this issue? What does scripture or Catholic teaching say about this issue? Culture: background, upbringing, cultural norms, how do we understand the world? Experience: what is my own experience? How does this experience help me to understand the issue? Do I lack any information?

* Respect for Human Life - God creates life, it is to be protected from conception to cremation

* Sin - to miss the mark, commission and omission are both equally bad

* Sin of commission - actively set out to commit sin, doing something wrong purposefully

* Sin of omission - should be doing the right thing but you don't, instead you ignore it

* Social Justice - a form of practical theology and application, the application of the virtue of justice. The defense of human dignity by ensuring that social structures and institutions on all levels- including political, cultural, and economic- provide for essential human needs and protect human rights

* Social Justice - ultimate goal, when human needs and rights are upheld

* Social sin - a sin we commit as a collective group, society commits it together, everyone cooperates (i.E materialistic culture)

* Solidarity - God created the planet without borders and boundaries, we are a human family created by God

* Stewardship - care for the environment (Gods creation)

* Subsidiarity - Aquinas reminds us that the government won't take care of every social issue, we have to take care of it as a community

* Themes/Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching - 

1. Human Dignity

2. Respect for Life

3. Association/Participation

4. Call to Family

5. Preferential Option for the Poor

6. Solidarity

7. Subsidiarity

8. Stewardship

9. Common Good