Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

Your Life in Christ: Foundations of Catholic Morality

• Catholic Social Teaching: Learning & Living Justice
• Vocabulary Workshop: Level G
• Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are with What We Buy
• Vocabulary Workshop: Level F
• Jesus Christ: Source of Our Salvation
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1. Understanding the nature of being human


2. Guiding moral decision-making with intellect


3. Understanding the law's relationship to freedom and being
   responsible for transgressions


4. Imitating Jesus and living the Beatitudes


5. Forming the conscience and strengthening resistance to peer
   pressure


6. Repenting and forgiving others


7. Thanking God for life by loving God above all else


8. Loving yourself


9. Loving your neighbors

• Selections from Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical on love Deus
  Caritas Est.


• Panel activities that help the students foster total learning in
  hands (service), hearts (prayer), and mind (academic challenges).


• Review questions for each main section.


• Several Journal Assignments for deeper thought and reflection.


• Key vocabulary terms set off in margin panels.


• A Learn by Doing project for each chapter that provides a
  longer-term assignment.


• A Called to Prayer feature offering text from a prayer relevant
  to the chapter theme.


• Innovative Catholic Life in Action component for each
  chapter.