Religious studies practice test

Conscience = The “inner voice” that helps us recognize the difference between good and evil actions so that we can do good and avoid all evil.

Conscious = Aware of and responding to one’s surroundings; awake.

Catholics believe in informing your conscience by study and prayer

Interiority = Relationship with self and God.

Catholic Social Teaching = A collection of writings by catholic social leaders to the world about various social justice issues.

Objective standards of right and wrong = What is objectively right or wrong

You can inform your conscience by.. : Prayer, Study, Consulting, and Examining

Sin = A deliberate thought, word, action, or lack of action that ignores God’s will or turns a person away from love of God, neighbor or self.

Free Will = The ability to choose freely, voluntarily, or without coercion, between right and wrong which is the basis for moral responsibility.

Character = The qualities of a person that are shaped by good habits they have developed by repetition of good and bad moral actions.

Virtue = A good moral habit developed by repetition of good moral actions.

Vice = A bad moral habit developed by repetition of bad moral actions.

S.P.I.E.S stands for = Social, Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Spiritual.