The Just War doctrine today states that the strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The Just war is so people today can make peace. Peace is the goal, but when it can not be achieved without force, force must be used. The church teaches we should love one another and not make war. The war over peace dates back to Jesus' age. The Catechism indicates the gravity of the decision to go to war. The first condition states there must be an aggressor who is harming the community of nations. In the Catechism the second condition establishes war as a last resort. This should not be the case one should try to make amends by trying one-to-one diplomacy and other alternatives.
The prospects of success are the third condition. The war must have " serious prospects of success". This condition is never going to give someone a guarantee of success. The final condition is dealing with the foreseen consequences of the war. The damage a war causes is more than the victory they feel after they have won. War can cause horrible damages to neighborhoods, creating economic burdens, and other harmful tragic effects.
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Friday, March 21, 2014
"Honesty is the Best Policy!"
In everyone's life, you will encounter that someone has lied to you. Whether it's a small lie or big lie. But most importantly who is telling this lie. It could be your best friend an enemy or your parents or family member. "I'm sorry if you don't like my honesty, but to be fair i don't like your lies"- Unknown Author. This quote describes how someone is telling the truth to someone who lies a lot. Telling your best friend a big lie is embarrassing and unfair. "God is constantly at work encouraging us to be people worthy of trust." The most important place to be honest would be inside a courtroom. When you are honest and people see it they give you a little more freedom just a tiny bit. "You cannot be dishonest and hope to be trusted." When you lie to a best friend there goes the trust your friend will probably ever have for you.
Monday, February 24, 2014
About the Fourth Commandment
The commandment teaches about family, is that it brings us closer together and we learn different values within each other. Family also teaches us the importance of authority and freedom also security. Society shows relationships withing one another. Society is a privileged community. Relationships are important in the fourth commandment teaches us to find the morals in one another. God made a family to show rights and responsibilities for the common good. Duties of children is to take care of the sick and the weak and learn as they get older. This teaches them to live in a well being society. Brings people to their needs. The duties of the parents are to be a role model for children to follow the good in their foot steps as they become older in life. Also to keep up with the morals and religious views on their families. Authorities in civil society help maintain order. This also helps strengthen marriages and relationships. Politics have a duty to honor the families and assist them. My religion teach has the spirit to teach us about God and all the good he does and to teach us about moral an immoral decisions.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
The type of Mom i want to be
When i become a mother there are many specific characteristics i would love to be known for. Not only by my child but their friends and other people around me. The first is Honesty. I want my child to be as honest as they could possibly be. I understand kids make mistakes but if my child knows wrong from right and they know they should be telling the truth i will enforce that in them by teaching them at an early age. Loving is what i can teach my child by not hurting people and not showing them the violence in the world by playing with guns. Caring is what i would like to be known for when my child is playing with a toy and i will teach my child how to share with one another by showing them how to and what to do in those situations. I want to be known for being a strict mother because if my child has no rules to follow they will just do whatever they feel when they please and that is how disrespect comes in a child. I always want to be not just a strict mother but i would like to be a fun mom too. I believe a child grows up well with a strict mother sometimes but also needs a little bit of fun in their life so they don't hate you.
Monday, February 3, 2014
The Catholic Importance of Sunday
The Sabbath is a day we should all keep important. It is the Lords day and we should all rest. This day is also for us to reflect on ourselves and praise Jesus on this day. We should all remember we are all servants of the lord. The resurrection recalls the first creation. Jesus rose from the dead on the first week of Sabbath. On the eighth day shows new creation after the Sabbath. The Eucharist is the heart of the church. We celebrate the Eucharist on the day of the Sabbath in which the Paschal Mystery is celebrated. The practice of this dates back to the apostolic age. Grace & Rest both come into the third commandment because we all are servants of Jesus and need a day of rest. Sunday is usually the day to give to the poor and do good deeds throughout the community. Christians should all seek recognition on Sundays.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Second Commandment
Now days being a teenager, you don't normally think twice about the second commandment. Some ways we can start becoming faithful are: respecting God's name and not using it to swear. This is important because god made you to love and respect him kinda like your parents. Promises are another thing, they are used to show our truthfulness to God and authority to him. Blasphemy should very much be avoided, because it opposes the second commandment. We should not believe Jesus is not there in spirit with us or believe we are better than him. Oaths are okay as long as they are not false. They can become a bad sin if someone lies on oath. Taking an oath is like calling God as a witness. This is the time to pledge our truthfulness.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
The meaning of the First Commandment
Faith in the first commandments mean we should bear witness to God. Hope talks about how the first commandment is concerned with sins against hope such as despair and presumption. Charity talks about how you should give to the people in need being sincere and divine. To adore God is to acknowledge him and that is adoration. Faith, Hope, and Charity are brought together by prayer. The only perfect sacrifice is Jesus when he dies on the cross to save us from our sins. Promises to God often include Matrimony, Confirmation, and Baptism. These promises are a sign of respect. The duty to worship God genuinely both individually and socially is how the traditional Catholics express the social duty of religion and the right to religious freedom. Superstition can affect our worship to God. Idolatry is a sin which is condemning God and worshiping more than just him. This can come in people worshiping or luxury worshiping. Giving the future the conscience to lead the way for you instead of God's plan of your life. In the first commandment god forbids irreligion tempting god in words or deeds. Atheism rejects the existence of God and having belief in your own fate for yourself.
Agnosticism is a search for god, and is too equivalent to atheism.
Agnosticism is a search for god, and is too equivalent to atheism.
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