Unit 3.2: Practice Quiz

Justice for the Poor

True

A true ecological approach always becomes a social approach.

[True or False]

True

Our mission demands that we lift our people out of their dehumanizing poverty.

[True or False]

True

We must make it possible for the poor to live in dignity, and in honor, as the children of God

[True or False]

True

The problem of drugs must be eliminated, but the solution is not the extra-judicial killing of suspected drug users and pushers.

[True or False]

True

There is a great and urgent challenge for active lay participation in “principled politics” in the face of patronage politics, political dynasties, dirty elections and politics, apathy, and cynicism among young people

[True or False]

True

Among the many opportunities for priests and nuns to participate in the Church’s mission (liturgical, catechetical, administrative, etc.), the pastoral document highlighted one in particular: “...your own specific task and the special responsibility given to you by the Lord is to find your own sanctification in the world, and to sanctify the world and transform it so that this world becomes more and more God’s world, God’s kingdom, where his will is done as it is in heaven

[True or False]

True

The kind of poverty that sanctifies is founded in evangelical poverty, especially the Beatitudes

[True or False]

Moral Poverty

The poverty that Dehumanizes - at the Personal Level: Slavery to vice or sin

Material Poverty

The Poverty that Dehumanizes - at the Personal Level: Destitution

Moral Poverty

The Poverty that Dehumanizes – at the Societal Level: Graft and Corruption in the Government

Material Poverty

The Poverty that Dehumanizes- at the Global Level: Consumerism and throwaway culture

Spiritual Poverty

The Poverty that Dehumanizes- at the Global Level: Relativism and Loss of the sense of God