Chapter 2 Living Justice and Peace Test

What leads the Church to consider seriously the social problems of today and to offer solutions?

compassion.

What is not a fundamental concern of the encyclical entitled Rerum Novarum?

welfare reform

What was the shift from a farming and craft trade economy to an economy based on factory production called?

Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx's theory predicted all the following except

People would turn to God in gratitude for their good fortune.

What did Rerum Novarum promote in terms of the role of the state?

Government should avoid interfering in private matters, but in some situations it has to take action through laws for the good of society

Over time, Rerum Novarum, along with the influence of socialism, indirectly led to the development of what government policies?

Minimum wage laws and the right to strike

All the following are major themes from Catholic social teaching except

The right of bishops to speak on social issues

What are the two aspects of participation that are often listed as separate themes of Catholic social teaching?

common good and subsidiarity

The option for the poor and vulnerable applies to people who are

all of the above

Which of the following is not a right that is due to workers?

The right to set one's own wages.

An ideal, equitable society in which government and laws would be unnecessary.

communism

An economic system where workers sold their labor to the owners for whatever wage they could get.

capitalism

A spirit of friendship between individuals, groups, and nations; a commitment to the common good.

solidarity

The God-given need for creation to follow what God intended it to be.

natural law

Governments and large organizations exist only to serve the good of human beings, families, and communities.

subsidiarity

A movement that asserted that reason and science are the basis for knowing truth

Enlightenment

The political movement that advocated distributing wealth according to need, not ownership of capital and profits

socialism

The shift from a farming and craft trade economy to an economy based on factory production

Industrial Revolution

Those not able to fully participate in society or forced outside the main group.

marginalized

Criticized capitalism and wrote the book The Communist Manifesto.

Karl Marx

Supported the labor union called the Knights of Labor

Cardinal James Gibbons

Journalist and activist who started the Catholic Worker movement.

Dorothy Day

Wrote Rerum Novarum and established a savings bank for the poor

Pope Leo XIII

Started the Saint Vincent de Paul society

Frederic Ozanam