Spirit of Truth, High School > Course B > Unit 5
Chapter 14: The Church Comes to North America
Spanish colonies, French missionaries, and many immigrants expanded the Catholic faith into the Americas.
Spanish colonies, French missionaries, and many immigrants expanded the Catholic faith into the Americas.
The Church continued to work for peace and shine a spiritual light as the errors of Nazisism, communism, modernism, and war darkened the world.
Following the grueling years of war and turmoil, the world and the Church needed renewal to move forward.
Jesus Christ showed us that we cannot truly practice our Faith in isolation. In keeping with our human nature, we take on the mission of Christian discipleship within the human community: the family, the parish, the town, nation, and the world. In all of these, we have responsibilities toward God and our neighbor that can be expressed in what is called social justice. This lesson focuses on principles of Catholic Social Teaching that includes the dignity of the human person, the family, justice, peace, and solidarity.
Society is a group of persons bound together organically by a principle of unity that goes beyond each one of them.
Every Christian is called to holiness. We have real examples of holiness in the saints.
Authority is the quality of exercising power over others and expecting obedience from them, and comes from God.
The human body, made male or female, serves an important purpose in the plan of God.
War, which is the result of sin, can sometimes be unavoidable. In that case, the Church offers guidance called Just War Doctrine.
Our intellect, will, and emotions can work together to help us make good decisions and to inform and follow our conscience.
Jesus healed people because of their faith in Him and as a sign that He is God.
The family is formative to social development.
Jesus summarized the Ten Commandments with Two Great Commandments.
The virtues of faith, hope, and love help us to know and be in relationship with God.
We are to love God with all our hearts, minds, and souls.