EXAM PREP FOR MORALITY SEMESTER EXAM
- Study content of Third Quarter Exam centering on the first seven chapters of Our Moral Life in Christ
Know the major terms of Catholic moral discourse. Be able to explain and give an example of each from this course.
- Know your selected method of moral decision making: OPTION, LISTEN or 8-Step. Hopefully you have really learned this by doing it.
Remember Fr. Ralph Huse video on the examen of consciousness, especially the practice of discernment as an important part of facing life challenges and deciding what to do.
- Study Our Moral Life in Christ
Chapter 8: The Ten Commandments and the Eight Beatitiudes
- Study Our Moral Life in Christ
Chapter 9: The Social Teaching of the Church
- Know the terminology from William Byron's Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching
- Charles Rodgers, S. J. An Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching
Reading this book should help you better understand Catholic Social Teaching.
What is Catholic Social Teaching?
- Chapter One: Ethics and Civil Society
� What is the end and purpose of all social organization?
� What is the foundation of Church and Society?
- Chapter Two: Ethics and Political Society
� What is the origin, nature and purpose of political society?
- Chapter Three: Ethics and Economic Society
� What is the purpose of the economy?
- Just War
- List and explain the three types of moral obligations that gives rise to the need for a just war theory
- List the seven criteria for Jus ad Bellum from the handout.
- List and explain the two criteria for Jus in Bello form the handout.
- What is a conscientious objector? What is a selective conscientious objector?
- What is the U.S. government's position on selective conscientious objection
- What is the U.S. Catholic Bishops position on selective conscientious objection?
- Video: Remember My Lai
Know the major characters and their story: Varnado Simpson, Kenneth Hodges, Fred Widmer, Ron Ridenhour, Harry Stanley, Hugh Thomson, William Calley, Kenneth Hodson
(A good site of web site of articles about Viet Nam: Coach Burke's Vietnam page)
(Readings about the Bombing of Japan. This is a compilation of sources that assert that the use of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not needed to end the war. Most of my students know the "we had to use it end the war" argument. I just want them to see there was another side.)
- Medical Ethics
NBC Dateline: Medical Ethics review web site
- Be able to summarize the major ideas of some of your classmate's presentations. You will probably have two or three options to choose from; one from just war and one from medical ethics.
Th 300-3 Period 4
- Just War: John Clohisy and Michael Edstrom on the "Atomic Bomb," Dan Baxter "Iraq War 2003," Kevin Casey "Genocide and its Creator," Matt Hohenberger "Rwanda," Barron Ross "Sudan."
- Medical Ethics: Paul Bubash "Nancy Cruzan," Dylan Kickham and Jamie Perkins "Dr. Kevorkian," Joe Kainsz "Terry Schiavo."
Th 300-8 Period 2
- Just War: Ryan Berger "Children Soldiers in Uganda," Will Derdyn "Sudan," Brad Helton "Hiroshiima and Nagasaki"
- Medical Ethics: John Edwards "Terry Schiavo," Nick Maglasang "Nancy Cruzan," Nick Wallner "Dr. Kevorkian"