Morality IIIB

October 23, 2008

Before Class

• Read chapters 30 and 33 of U.S. Catholic Catechism for Adults
• Read the following handouts:
  • Marriage, Sexuality, and Contraception
  • Chastity and Modesty

Homework

• Read the following handouts:
  • Virtuous Living
  • The Virtue of Faith
  • The Virtue of Hope
  • The Virtue of Charity
  • The Beatitudes
  • Responding to the Great Mysteries

To Make Up an Absence

If you are unable to attend this class, please submit to the instructor at the next class written responses to four of the questions below (at least one from each section). Each response should be 2-3 paragraphs in length and address the question completely. Include the question (not just the number) at the top of your response.

Chapter 30. The Sixth Commandment: Marital Fidelity

1. What is chastity, and how does its living out differ according to one's state in life? How is chastity related to human freedom? Choose four examples of sins against chastity from p. 406-407 and explain how the virtue of chastity counters them.
2. Why are both artificial contraception in marriage and in vitro fertilization morally wrong? What is natural family planning, and how does it respect the bond between the unitive and procreative aspects of marriage?
3. What is the nuptial meaning of the body? How does this understanding of the body combat the exploitation of sexuality for commercial gain and other violations of chastity and marital fidelity in American culture?

Chapter 33. The Ninth Commandment: Practice Purity of Heart

1. What is modesty? How does the virtue of modesty protect and foster true human freedom?
2. Why is it important to be as vigilant about our interior attitudes toward sexuality as we are about external acts? Cite other examples of links between inner attitudes and external behavior.

Handouts

• Marriage, Sexuality and Contraception
  Recall the definition of sacrament. How is human sexuality, properly expressed, sacramental? How is contraception destructive of human dignity? Describe natural family planning and how it is very different from contraception.
• Chastity and Modesty
  What is chastity, and how does its living out differ according to one's state in life? What is modesty? Give examples. How do these virtues express the great value Christians have for the body as well as our responsibility to our neighbor not to lead him or her into sin?
  [NOTE: Do not choose both this question and question 1 from Chapter 33.]