Catholic Social Teaching Chapter 3 Crossword

Murder

The deliberate killing of an innocent human person

Didache

One of the earliest Christian catechisms

Fertilized

Human life begins from the time the ovum is _________

Conspiracy

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are part of what St. John Paul II described as "_________ against life"

Individualism

Extreme ________ and the belief in an absolute right to freedom can lead people to believe they re the masters of their own life and death

Violation

In urging the ______ of the death penalty, the bishops recognize that society must protect itself from criminals and that criminals deserve punishment

Sanctuary

St John Paul II wrote in Evangelism Vitae that the family is the "_____ of life"

Object

Reproductive cloning reduces the person to an ______ to be manipulated and controlled by another

Does / Is

Modern values sometimes emphasize what someone ______ rather than who someone ____

Double Effect

The principle of _________ is a formula used for evaluating the permissibility of an act that is morally good when the act causes an effect one is normally obliged to avoid

Intrinsic

Capital punishment is not considered an __________ evil

African

60% of all pregnancies among _______ American women end in abortion

Row v. Wade

1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion on demand in the US

Superior

Reproductive cloning could be used to produce human beings with "_________ qualities"

Personalistic Norm

The principle that maintains that a person is to be treated as a unique individual, never a means to another end

Human

Just because an embryo is smaller and less developed than other persons does not make the embryo less of a ________

Euthanasis

Any act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering

Size

The "S" in SLED

Voluntary

When it is ________, it is often referred to as assisted suicide or physician-assisted suicide

Democracy

A tenet of ______ is that laws should protect the lives and rights of all people, especially the most defenseless

Discrimination

________ based on the various stages of life is no more justified than any other _______

Ectopic

An _________ pregnancy is one in which the fertilized egg implants in a woman's Fallopian tube instead of her uterus

Compassion

Those who care for the sick and dying have a special obligation to treat them with ________

Environment

The "E" in SLED

Incarnation

When God became human in the person of Jesus

Image

Every human person is made in God's ______ and likeness and has inherent dignity

Reform

One of the traditional reasons for punishing someone

Last Resort

Taking someones life who is a threat to society must always be a ___________

Stem

A ______ cell is an unspecialized cell that has the potential to become one of many specific types of cells

Million

Between 1973 and 2008, nearly 50 ________ legal abortions took place in the US

Suffering

One of the reasons for the growing acceptance of euthanasia is the cultural climate that sees no value in ________

Extraordinary

It is morally permissible to refuse _______ medical treatment

Bernardin

Catholic cardinal who wrote a plea to the Supreme Court not to legalize physician assisted suicide

Freedom

Unchecked personal _______ leads to an excessive individualism that ignored other people

Innocent

A person who is not intending you harm at the particular moment

Abortion

The deliberate termination of a pregnancy by killing the unborn child

Zero (0)

The number of cures attributed to embryonic stem cells

Womb

"Before I formed you in the _____ I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you"

Rare

The cases in which a mother will die as a result of pregnancy are extremely ________