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Lesson 16

Revolutions and Restorations

The Industrial Revolution swept across the world turning societies into mass consumers and bringing economic, political, social, and spiritual challenges.

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Lesson Vocabulary

  • Ark of the Covenant
    :
    (n.): A chest made of the finest materials — described in Exodus 25 — which contained the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments, a piece of manna, and the staff of Aaron. Ark of the Covenant is also a title for Mary, the God-bearer: she carried God Himself in her body for nine months before delivering Him into the world.
  • Liberalism
    :
    (n.): Misunderstanding that human freedom is absolute when it comes to morality, religion, conscience, speech, press, and so forth, together with a rejection of God's authority. Note that in its philosophical context, liberalism or liberal is distinct from when it is used to describe political leanings, though it may have much in common with those views.
  • Syllabus of Errors
    :
    (n.): Document issued by Pope Pius IX as an appendix to his encyclical Quanta Cura, which lists 80 statements that the faithful ought to recognize as errors or false teachings against the true teaching of the Catholic Church.
  • First Vatican Council
    :
    (n.): Ecumenical Council called by Pope Pius IX in 1869 to respond to the threats as Communism, socialism, modernism, and freemasonry, as well as to defend the idea that faith and reason were not opposed to one another.
  • Ex Cathedra
    :
    (adv.): A phrase describing a pope’s definitive and infallible teaching as being given from his authority as the successor of St. Peter. Latin for “from the chair.”
  • Papal Infallibility
    :
    (n.): Catholic doctrine that the pope, by virtue of his office as the supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful, cannot err when he proclaims by definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith to morals.
  • Industrial Revolution
    :
    (n.): Rapid, major change in world economics fueled by technology and manufacturing processes, especially England and the United States, from about 1760-1830.
  • Consumerism
    :
    (n.): The belief that fulfillment is found in the acquisition of consumer goods.
  • Strike
    :
    (n.): An organized refusal to work until certain conditions are met.
  • Capitalism
    :
    (n.): An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and the volununtary exchange of labor and goods in which the production and value of labor and goods is determined by the producers and consumers themselves (supply and demand).
  • Socialism
    :
    (n.): An economic and political philsophy in which the means of production, distubtution, and exchange is owned by the centralized government. The individual does not own the fruits of his labor, but relies on the government to distribute goods.
  • Communism
    :
    (n.): Form of socialism enforced by totalitarian, atheistic ideology in world history, responsible for over 100 million deaths in the 20th century.
  • Marxism
    :
    (n.): The political, economic, and social theory of Karl Marx which holds that all history is the history of class struggle.
  • Atheism
    :
    (n.): The belief that God does not exist.
  • Catholic Social Teaching
    :
    (n.): A subdiscipline of moral theology which outlines a holistic Catholic vision, based on both revelation and reason, of a good human society. It arises from faith and the commands to love God and neighbor, and it proposes principles for reflection, provides criteria for judgment, and gives guidelines for action in social, economic, and cultural spheres.
  • The Story of a Soul
    :
    (n.): Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux, compiled after her death from humble notebooks she left behind, and in which Therese articulates her "Little Way" of seeking holiness in ordinary, everyday things.

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