Search out the facts - Answers What does the S in STOP stand for?
Think about alternatives and consequences - Answers What does the T in STOP stand for?
Others- consult with them and consider how your actions will affect them - Answers What does the O in
STOP stand for?
Pray to the Lord for Guidance - Answers What does the P in STOP stand for?
Moral Object - Answers the moral content of an action that suggests whether the action is directed
toward the true good
Your acts must promote the true good of humans or they are wrong - Answers First rule of morality
Make sure your actions always conform to objective norms like the Ten Commandments - Answers
Second rule of morality
Intention - Answers The aim or objective of a course of action; WHY?
Keep the intention good - Answers First rule for governing intentions
The end does not justify the means - Answers Second rule for governing intentions
Means - Answers A method, course of action, or instrument by which something can be accomplished
Circumstances - Answers the conditions or facts attending an event and having some bearing on it
Alternatives - Answers Other ways of thinking or acting
Consequences - Answers Effects that follow a response
Utilitarianism - Answers idea that the goal of society should be to bring about the greatest happiness for
the greatest number of people
Consequentialism - Answers an ethical system that determines the level of goodness or evil from the
effect or result of an act
Categorialism - Answers Morality is determined by certain principles
What - Answers What question does the moral object answer?
Why - Answers What question does the intention answer?
Who, where, when, and how - Answers What questions do the circumstances answer?
will - Answers The Lord's prayer teaches us to seek God's ______
, prayer - Answers Christian moral teaching is sustained by this
end - Answers The ___ does not justify the means
for - Answers Christianity recognizes that we live with and ___ others
people - Answers Do only those things that you think would be morally acceptable for all ______ a tall
times
God is love - Answers Pope Benedict XVI's first encyclical
Prudence - Answers The moral virtue that inclines us to lead ethical, good, and moral lives of action
action - Answers For something to be morally good, both your _____ and your intention must be good
St. Ignatius of Loyola - Answers Wrote the Spiritual Excersises
conversation - Answers A traditional definition of prayer sees it as a _____ with God
St. Basil the Great - Answers This saint taught that prudence must precede right reason in action
discernment - Answers A decision-making process that attends to the implications and consequences of
an action or choice
Honesty - Answers This is the touchstone of character, the foundation of all human relationships
Infallibility - Answers The preservation from error in matters of faith and morals
Talking and listening - Answers The two parts of the "conversation" of prayer
Our Father - Answers The perfect prayer
Church - Answers Christ gave the _____ the right and duty to teach moral principles
Reconciliation - Answers A sacrament that is a priceless resource in helping us to consult with wise and
holy mentors
Jesus - Answers He taught us the importance of prayer
decisions - Answers It's worthwhile to consult with people who have made tough ____ before and to
take their advice
Intellects - Answers Human reason refers to the way we use our _________
Magisterium - Answers The authentic teachers who have Christ's authority to teach the truth to believe
Blasphemy - Answers Using hateful or defiant words against God
worth - Answers Always respect others of persons of incomparable _____ who are made in God's image