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| God's Wisdom as manifested in all acts and movements |
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| The part of eternal law that applies to the rational creature |
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| Acts that do not involve the intellect and will (i.e breathing,sneezing) |
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| An ethical system that determines good and evil from the consequences that follow an act |
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| the free and responsible choice a person makes to orien, in a radical manner, his whole existence in a moral direction toward good or evil |
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| The belief that htere are no absolute truths, and that morality changes with each new situation |
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| An ethical system that deduces the moral value of an act from the proportion of good and evil acts |
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| The doctrine that rejects supernatural revelation and makes reason the sole source of knowledge |
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| An ethical theory that derives good and evil from the circumstances that accompany the acting agent |
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| Imperfect contrition resulting from being sorry for sins due to fear of God's Punishment |
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| Sincere sorrow for having offended God and hatred for the sins we have commited, with a firm purpose of sinning no more |
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| Sin that is freely commited, always involves full knowledge of the evil of the action being committed and freedom to do or avoid the action |
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| The permanent state of culpability caused by the frequent commission of actual sins |
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| An action that is sinful but does not admit culpability because of ignorance |
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| The concrete number of acts that are committed contrary to a virtue or precept |
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| A choice to do an evil act |
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| A failure to perform some act required by a positive precept (i.e missing Sunday Mass) |
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| Categorization of sins according to the specific virtues they violate |
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| conscience that formulates moral judgments on insufficient grounds. It judges mortal sins as venial and venial as no sins at all |
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| correctness of method of judgement |
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| absolute dependence of conscience on laws |
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| is a judgement of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act |
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| belief that conscience is the only moral authority |
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| promulgated by civil authority |
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| supernatural help from god to do good and avoid evil to enable us to save our souls |
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| a gift from god to make possible the free choice to love God. |
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| a moral system that denies belief in God and views humanity as the highest form of existence |
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| the share in the divine life of God infused into us at Baptism. |
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| a moral code the prescribes what ought to be done |
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| science enabling the human mind to make correct moral choices guided by principles set forth by the Magisterium |
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| part of moral theology studying the nature of a moral act and conditions that make a concrete action moral |
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| free gift of Gods own life that God makes to each person in Baptism; it is infused into the soul by the Holy Spirit to heal it of sin and to sanctify it |
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| belief that matter is the only reality and everything can be explained only in terms of matter, and that comfort, pleasure, and/or wealth are the only or highest goods and values |
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| science which accepts and examines divine revelation while at the same time responding to the demands of human reason |
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| existence of a variety of opinions or ideas within human society, some of which may contradict others; in the application of moral principles and social customs, it is valid as long as it does not contradict Gods revelation and sound reason |
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| truths about God and his will which he has communicated freely to humanity by means of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition |
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| Word of God entrusted to the apostles and their successors by Christ and the Holy Spirit, and transmitted by their teaching to each generation of Christians |
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| virtues infused in the soul at Baptism enabling each person to share in the divine nature of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; in Catholic theology, there are three: faith, hope, and charity |
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| those truths passed from generation to generation in oral or written form |
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| the power a person has over his own acts |
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| actions which have no moral value in themselves, but depend on intention and circumstances surrounding them for moral value |
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| ability to make and carry out correct moral decisions |
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