Unit 5 Grade 10 CE Test Flashcards

Recreational Sexual Intercourse*

Morally wrong sexual behavior that says sex as the pursuit of pleasure is permissible between two persons as long as there is consent.

Emotional-Relationship Sexual Intercourse*

Morally wrong sexual behaviour that says sex is permissible between two unmarried people who feel love for one another.

Almost-Committed Sexual Intercourse*

Morally wrong sexual behavior that says sex is OK between two people who have shown a significant commitment to one another.

1.) God calls some people to the married life and other people to the single life.

True

2.) Catholics cannot marry non-Catholic Christians.

False.

3.) Catholics cannot marry a person from another religion.

False.

4.) The priest administers the sacrament of marriage at a Catholic wedding.

False.

5.) Public, unconditional vows and promises are made during the Rite of Catholic Marriage.

True

6.) There is a high divorce rate in the world because humans are not made for exclusive, lifelong commitments.

False.

7.) A husband and wife who are sacramentally married in the Catholic Church and who are always fighting may divorce.

False.

8.) The following conditions all have to be present at the time of the wedding for a sacramental marriage to exist: free consent, affirmation of a lifelong exclusive commitment, openness to children.

True.

9.) An annulment is a decision by Church authorities that an apparently valid marriage is null and void (doesn't exist) because of a fatal flaw (e.g., a person was married to another person at the time of the marriage, etc…)

True.

10.) A Catholic couple can regulate how many children they will have.

True.

Prostitution

The act of buying and selling of sex.

Pornography

The display of erotic behaviour in written or pictorial form for the purpose of sexual excitement.

Polygamy

Having more than 1 spouse at the same time.

Lust

A craving for sexual gratification without any regards to boundaries, moralities, or harm to others.

Fornication

Sexual intercourse between an unmarried man and unmarried woman

Divorce

An attempt to dissolve through civil law a marriage bond that can never be broken except by death.

Cohabitation

Living with one's boyfriend/girlfriend as if the couple was married, including sexual intimacy.

Chastity

Responsible sexual expression; proper sexual integration of our spiritual and bodily dimensions.

Natural Family Planning

A method permitted in the Catholic Church for couples to plan the spacing of children in the family by temporarily abstaining from sexual intercourse.

Artificial Contraception

Means (such as condoms, the birth control pill, and surgical procedures) of separating the sexual act from the creation of new human life.

Annulment

A ruling by a Catholic Church tribunal that an apparently valid marriage was in fact void because of a fatal flaw. These flaws, unknown to one or both parties, or concealed by one or the other, make the marriage no marriage from the start, even if a ceremony was celebrated.

Adultery

Marital infidelity or sexual relations between two partners, at least one of whom is married.