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31 Cards in this Set
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Morality
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putting your faith and religion into practice through making good decisions in word and action
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sorcery
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attempts to tame occult powers in order to use them to gain a supernatural power over others
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adultery
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infedilty in marriage whereby a married person has sexual intercourse with someone who is not the person's spouse
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capital sins
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sins that are the root of other sins and vices
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common good
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the sum of social conditions that allow people, either as a group or as individuals, to reach their fulfillment more fully and more easily
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idolatry
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worshiping something or someone other than the true God
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agnosticism
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the opinion that no one knows for sure whether God exists
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oath
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a statement or a promise that calls on god to be witness to it
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Abortion
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the direct and deliberate ending of a pregnancy by killing the unborn child
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euthanasia
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any action or omission which of itself and by intention causes death, with the purpose of eliminating all suffering
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perjury
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false witness under oath
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detraction
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without a legitamate reason, disclosing a person's faults to someone who did not know about them, causing unjust harm to that person's reputation
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calumny
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slander, lies told about one another person to harm his or her reputation and lead others to make false judgements about the person
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modesty
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the virtue of temperance that applies to how a person cunducts herslef
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consecrated life
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a life dedicated to living by the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience
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precepts of the Church
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rules catholics follow to help them become good and moral people
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Advent
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the four week season that prepares for the coming of our savior on christmas
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Lent
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the season of intentional prayer, fasting, and alms giving in preperation of christ's ressurection and our redemption at easter
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Easter
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the feast and the season that commemorate christ's ressurection from the dead
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sanctifying grace
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the grace that heals fallen human nature and gives us a share in the divine life of the blessed trinity
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actual grace
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God's special help to turn us from sin or to help us act more like Christ
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charisms
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special gifts the holy spirit bestows on individual christians to help the church grow
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justified
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a person that has been cleansed from sin through faint in Jesus Christ
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conscience
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a person;s most secret core and sanctuary that helps the peron determine between good and evil
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vices
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bad habits linked to capital sins
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cardinal virtues
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the hinge virtues from which all other virtues come
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theological virtues
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three important virtues bestowed on us at baptism that relate us to God
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fruits of the Holy Spirit
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perfections that result from living in union with the holy spirit
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free will
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the capacity to choose among alternatives
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particular judgment
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an individual's judgement immediatley after death, when christ will rule on one's eternal destiny to be sent in Heaven or in hell
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passions
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our emotional responses to the good or the evil we encounter
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